News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jay Scott Cloutier, age 56, of Lyman, Maine, was charged today with attempting to entice and coerce a minor into committing criminal sex acts and traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of meeting a minor for sex.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Diablo Lake Overlook will close to all visitors and traffic October 7-11 while crews transport construction debris via helicopter from campsites along Ross Lake. There will be a partial closure at the overlook on October 1-6, with visitor access and traffic limited in some areas of the overlook, while crews stage equipment.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coos Bay District has lifted the fire restrictions in place on public lands administered by the BLM in southwest Oregon. The termination of the fire prevention order will go into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Sept. 24, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wood, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Chadron, Nebraska, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for four counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Portersville, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: * Fire danger in Yellowstone is LOW.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $986 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fifth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Timothy Scheitlan, age 43, of Madison Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2019, to six months home confinement, by United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for stealing money from Tobyhanna Army Deport. Judge Caputo also ordered Scheitlan to pay restitution in the amount of $95,000.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
Release: Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added Hong Kong to the list of regions affected by African swine fever (ASF). On May 12, 2019, the Hong Kong veterinary authorities reported an ASF occurrence to the World Organization of Animal Health ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Richardo Leodoro Urbina, 58, of Muskegon, Michigan was sentenced to serve 480 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for sex trafficking three minors; attempting to sex traffic three more minors; conspiring to sex traffic minors; sex trafficking an adult by force, fraud, or...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Authorities seized more than 14 kilograms of fentanyl, 29 kilograms of cocaine, four firearms and body armor during 10-week enforcement operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ZIMER KALICI, 55, of Waterbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of theft of public money related to his illegal receipt of Social Security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that complaints have been filed against two men for attempting to smuggle approximately $800,000 into St. Thomas by boat. Jose Ernesto Vazquez Colon and Abnel Belordo Colon were arrested Friday evening and made their initial appearances in federal court on Saturday in St. Thomas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A physician who operates a private family practice in Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park and the Morongo Basin Transit Authority will not be offering the free Roadrunner Shuttle Service in the fall of 2019. The two-year funded pilot program concluded in May 2019 and it has not been funded to continue into the next visitor season. Both the Joshua Tree National Park and Morongo Basin Transit Authority look forward to revisiting this service in the future with revised routes and schedules.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) received a response from Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma to a July 17, 2019 letter he sent with several committee Republicans.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $986million in airport infrastructure grants, the fifth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2019
News Release: John Scarpa, Jr., a criminal defense attorney, was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn to 30 months’ imprisonment and fined $10,000 by United States District Judge Carol Bagley Amon for bribing a witness to commit perjury in a double homicide trial in Suffolk County Supreme Court. Scarpa was...
