News from July 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Whiskeytown, Calif. - The National Park Service has re-opened the restrooms at Oak Bottom. Bringing the waste water system back on line is part of the ongoing, phased re-opening in the wake of the Carr Fire. Whiskeytown opened Oak Bottom to the public April 27th and spent nearly $150,000 to have temporary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Robert Elliott Jones, 39, a/k/a/ "Lil Rob," a/k/a/ "Mac Rob" has pled guilty to conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Robert Ray (47, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for bank robbery. Ray had pleaded guilty on April 9, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: International Falls, MN: In collaboration with National Geographic, Voyageurs National Park has designed a map specifically geared toward visitors who travel the park by canoe or kayak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Talique McKenzie, 20, of Winter Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to five years in prison yesterday, after having previously pled guilty to stealing firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer (Case No. 19-CR-14013).
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee discussed school security, threat mitigation and prevention best practices, as well as past and present recommendations from the state and federal level on how we can keep our children safe and secure at school.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed today after the arrest of John Maasen, 64, of Olivehurst, who is charged with receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Good morning and thank you to our witnesses and guests for joining us for today’s hearing on, “The Social Security 2100 Act.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury indicted Miguel Angel Bravo Vasquez, Francisco Heredia Munoz, and Jose Alberto Cruz Garcia with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, and related charges, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Mario Alberto Lopez-Pena, 19, of Winton, and Francisco Madrigal Magana, 25, of Turlock, charging them with conspiracy to cultivate marijuana, marijuana cultivation, and depredation of federal lands and resources in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GARY DAVIS, a/k/a “Libertas," was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his role as a member of the small administrative staff of the “Silk Road" website. Silk Road was an online black market of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN -Marlon "Jazz" Taylor, 34, has been sentenced to life in prison on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Public comment period open through Oct. 24, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a meeting where it will begin negotiations for an operations, maintenance and replacement contract with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority for operation of federally-owned Cutter Lateral features of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, located near Bloomfield, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston yesterday in connection with a fentanyl conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - The Wildwood Inn Tropical Dome and Theme Suites in Florence, Kentucky (“Wildwood Inn") entered into an agreement with the United States to resolve a recent complaint alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA") relating to the use of service animals. The ADA generally...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Divesh Valanju (30, India) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for producing child pornography. Valanju had pleaded guilty on April 11, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, released a supplemental memo based on approximately 55,000 non-public documents JUUL Labs, Inc. produced to the Subcommittee and the Massachusetts Attorney General in response to the Subcommittee’s investigation launched last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gerard Gaffney, age 19, of Mount Ranier, Maryland, and David Marable, age 18, of Washington, D.C., were indicted on July 24, 2019, by a federal grand jury on robbery and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Rinehardt, age 20, of Statesville, North Carolina, was indicted on July 24, 2019, by a federal grand jury on robbery and firearms charges.
