News published on Federal Newswire in June 2016

News from June 2016


News Release: FBI Offers $2,500 Reward for Information Leading to Arrest, Conviction of Unknown Clinic Arson Subject.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Antonio Rodriguez, 42, of Lovington, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.


News Release: Contact Person: Max Cauthen (864) 282-2100.


Sixty-Six Gang Members Facing Federal Rico, Firearm and Drug Trafficking Charges

News Release: Over seventy firearms recovered during course of investigation.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Arturo Jimenez De Los Santos, 33, of Kearneysville, West Virginia, pled guilty today to methamphetamine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.


Shreveport Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Methamphetamine Charge

News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport man was sentenced this week to 240 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine, which he intended to sell.


Virginia Man Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL

News Release: In a criminal complaint unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia today, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN ANATE, also known as “Pills" and “Che Pills," 25, most recently of the Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.


Picnic in the Park – A National Park Service Centennial Event at Homestead National Monument of America

News Release: Homestead National Monument of America is excited to invite you to "Picnic in the Park" on International Picnic Day, June 18, 2016, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. National parks across the United States will be welcoming to picnic in honor of the National Park Service's Centennial.


Former Tech Products Operations Manager Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Scheme

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cheryl L. Emerson-Chase, 52, of Powell, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering.


Lindenhurst Man Detained in Federal Custody for Allegedly Constructing Potentially Destructive Pipe Bombs

News Release: CHICAGO - A man who allegedly manufactured explosive devices and kept them in the bedroom of his Lindenhurst home was ordered detained in federal custody today.


News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Benjamin Rogers, 31, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge Joseph Laplante and pleaded guilty to distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death.


C&O Canal Water Drainage

News Release: Washington, DC -On Thursday, June 9th, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park will begin draining the watered canal section from Fletchers Cove (Towpath Mile 3) to Georgetown (Towpath Mile 0) to accommodate a construction project adjacent to the canal at 3225 Grace Street NW. During the...


News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court convicted five Short North Posse gang members of racketeering and murder today following a two-month trial.


Engel: GOP National Security Plan the Wrong Way for America

News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the House GOP’s National Security Agenda...


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Maria Del Carmen Flores Beltran, 43, of Stephenson, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for selling over 400 grams of cocaine and a dozen firearms, ammunition and a fake grenade to ATF agents in 2015.


Lindenhurst Man Detained in Federal Custody for Allegedly Constructing Potentially Destructive Pipe Bombs

News Release: CHICAGO - A man who allegedly manufactured explosive devices and kept them in the bedroom of his Lindenhurst home was ordered detained in federal custody today.


NIST's Super Quantum Simulator 'Entangles' Hundreds of Ions

News Release: Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "entangled" or linked together the properties of up to 219 beryllium ions (charged atoms) to create a quantum simulator. The simulator is designed to model and mimic complex physics phenomena in a way that is impossible with conventional machines, even supercomputers. The techniques could also help improve atomic clocks.


News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted five Short North Posse gang members of racketeering and murder today following a two-month trial.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Marvin Taaff, age 29, of Takoma Park, Maryland, today to 140 months years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, cocaine base and 100 kilograms or more of marijuana.