News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - Sigourney Elementary School Principal Deanna Hutchings was presented a $1,000 check by Drug Enforcement Administration Des Moines Resident Office staff, March 18, after Wells and Owen Clark and their family were recognized as one of 20 2018 Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest winners.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Isle Royale National Park is proud to announce the summer 2019 Teen Artist Exploration selections. This year, two teen artists and their families, along with an artistic mentor, will be traveling to Isle Royale at the same time to explore their art through wilderness. The chosen teen artists are.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced STEVEN J. EVERHARDT, age 52, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to serve 97 months in federal prison following his conviction for possession of child pornography. EVERHARDT will also be required to serve...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Local Virginia Business Settles Claim It Violated Servicemember’s Rights.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Sulphur, Okla.- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has bestowed an Honored Institution Award to the National Park Service at Chickasaw National Recreation Area for recording over 100 years of weather observations in cooperation with the National Weather Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Jacob R. Diefenbach of Marion has been charged by indictment with two counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. The federal indictment alleges that the offenses occurred on Dec. 12, 2018, and February 4, 2019, in Williamson County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on March 15, 2019, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for enticing a person whom he believed to be a minor (but who was actually an undercover law enforcement officer) to engage in illicit sex.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen will speak March 19th at the 2019 S&T Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase hosted by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Socorro Field Office is planning to burn up to 2,711 acres in eastern Socorro County April 1-May 15, weather permitting. The Chupadera Prescribed Burn is located on Chupadera Mesa, 10 miles east of Bingham, N.M. and 5 miles north of US Highway 380. The objective for this burn is to remove slash (limbs and branches) created as part of old thinning projects, reduce wildfire risk, improve ecosystem health and enhance wildlife habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reacted to the United States Coast Guard’s announced policy of disqualifying service by transgender persons looking to enter the service, or those person's identified with gender dysphoria, with limited exceptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: DENVER - The Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) today awarded over $391,425 to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe as part of a larger effort to assist victims of crime, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn. The Southern Ute grant is part of more than $5.7 million to support crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a Will County man to more than four years in prison for stealing his elderly mother-in-law’s identity to misappropriate more than $175,000 from her.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Following trial last week, a jury deliberated for two hours before returning guilty verdicts on all counts against Omar Gutierrez-Valle, 30, of Michigan, for his role in a conspiracy to traffic heroin and cocaine. Chief U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow presided over the trial which began on March 11. The jury returned its guilty verdicts on March 14.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. -House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY); Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA); and Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-TX) today made the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and for abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEONID POLLAK, also known as “Lenny," 58, of Greenwich, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to offenses related to an investment fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: “Iron Will" Hike at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.
