News from June 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Calif. June 12, 2017 - Fire staff completed ignitions on the last segment of the Cedar Central Prescribed Burn unit yesterday evening, for a total of 218 acres treated since Monday. With ignitions complete, firefighters will continue to patrol the area as vegetation inside the unit burns down.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lori V. Whitaker, 56, formerly of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced in federal court yesterday to 18 months in prison for wire fraud. She was also ordered to pay restitution for the loss to her employer in Otis, N.M., of approximately $816,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Kevin Wyrick as the superintendent of Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, New York. Wyrick currently serves as chief of operations at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, where he oversees law enforcement and emergency services, interpretation and education, resource stewardship and management and administration. Wyrick will begin his new assignment later this summer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
Release: EAST ELMHURST, N.Y. - A Nassau County, N.Y., man was arrested on Tuesday, June 11, after Transportation Security Administration officers at LaGuardia Airport caught him trying to bring a loaded gun past a security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Efrain Diaz Alachan, age 46, and a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison, for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Timothy T. Myers, 27, of Ellsworth, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank robbery. The charges arose from the robbery in December 2018 of a two Bangor banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - United States Attorney Mike Hurst announced today that Assistant U.S. Attorney John Meynardie will serve as the new Branch Supervisor of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Gulfport, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Annette Williams will serve as the Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Denver, Colorado, man convicted of Attempted Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on June 10, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, offered an amendment to H.R. 2740, the appropriations minibus, striking language included in the bill by Democrats to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). This AUMF...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-N.J.), Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and a bipartisan group of Congressional lawmakers and environmental leaders announced the introduction of The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Permanent Funding Act at a recently concluded press conference this morning...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Burke woman pleaded guilty today to bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga. - Five men and a woman have been indicted in federal court, charged with operating a wide-ranging drug conspiracy that included mass production of pills and possession with intent to distribute a powerful synthetic opioid.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) from today’s hearing entitled, “Under Pressure: The State of Trucking in America":
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Goodson, Missouri, man linked to several alleged fraud schemes has been indicted by a federal grand jury for making false statements to federal investigators.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH), former Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, reintroduced bipartisan legislation to impose sanctions on the Burmese military in response to the genocide of the Rohingya people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Sadie Bradley, 66, of Waynesboro, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to one count of theft of government funds by fraudulently obtaining Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefit payments, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Resident Agent in Charge Marvin Mauldin of the Office of Inspector General, Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Humboldt man has been sentenced to federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Weather and Air Quality are hosting a symposium with the winners of Reclamation's Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo I on June 17, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT in Silver Spring, Maryland. The year-long...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Isabel, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Child Abuse.
