News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Update: Today, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned a two-count indictment that charges Gregory Allen Justice with economic espionage and violating the Arms Export Control Act for his attempts to sell sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Riverdale, Maryland - The United States Park Police are investigating a fatal car crash that occurred northbound on the Baltimore Washington Parkway near Route 410 in Riverdale, Maryland. At about 3:45 pm on July 19, a vehicle travelling northbound struck a mower critically injuring the operator.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: CLEVELAND - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today made the following statement regarding an Associated Press report that reveals how certain restrictions imposed under the Iran nuclear deal end after 10 years, allowing Tehran to reduce the time necessary for developing a nuclear weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center Fees Will Increase in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Stephen C. Walker, 24, of Orofino, Idaho, was sentenced today for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Walker to 13 months in prison and 3 years supervised release. Walker pleaded guilty on Jan. 26, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory has selected six Phase II projects, to further develop innovative technologies for advanced gas turbine components and supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycles. The projects were selected from eleven projects that participated in Phase I that was recently completed by private sector companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Vernon Michael Norvell, 43, of Portsmouth was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for cocaine distribution and money laundering. According to the plea agreement, Norvell will pay $690,000 in criminal forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Paul Jens Suggs, 20, of Moscow, Idaho, was sentenced today for communicating interstate threats, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Suggs to 16 months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release. Suggs pleaded guilty on Jan. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----Acting U.S. Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Neurology Associates of Greenville, South Carolina was charged in a 1-count Information with dispensing misbranded drugs, a violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 331(c). Neurology Associates faces a maximum fine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Christopher Gorman, 51, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty conspiracy to damage a building used in an activity affecting interstate commerce by means of fire and an explosive before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Investigation Is Ongoing into Fentanyl and Hydrocodone Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. -U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Todd Alan Nelson, 51, of Salem, Oregon, on July 12, 2016, to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, followed by a consecutive five-year mandatory minimum sentence for possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON- Floyd L. Middleton, 47, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from the theft of over $140,000 from a religious charity where he worked in an administrative capacity, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: In an effort to reduce the occurrence and severity of bike accidents at Cape Cod National Seashore, as well as promote the Healthy Parks, Healthy People program, the national seashore's Bicycle Safety Committee will host two "Bicycle Safety at the Seashore" events.This is the sixth year that the park...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest and filing of charges against Marcus Stroud, a 19-year-old volunteer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: RAUL RODRIGUEZ, 40 years old of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment1 with one count of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, one count of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael VonFricken, age 45, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 3 years of probation and 3 months of weekend incarceration at the Rensselaer County Jail for his part in a health care fraud that provided him with $32,732 in cash reimbursements from a local union, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking input from the mobile and cellular industry to study defense capability gaps and additional safeguards for government devices. The DHS Science ...
