News from April 2017
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Last summer, Bryt’Ni Hill arrived at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) for an internship after graduating from South Carolina’s Newberry College.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: The Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB) held a public meeting April 4 and 5 in which participants discussed knowledge management, excess facilities and potential infrastructure opportunities. Board members gave EM management recommendations on these topics. Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge for IRS Criminal Investigation, and L. Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Connie Guild, age 52, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Ramon De Leon-Pineda, age 33, of West Hazelton, Pennsylvania, Joel Contreras, age 25, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, Alhagie Samba, age 49, Adrian Rivera, age 40, Jerrod Curtis, age 33, Nelson...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury here today returned additional charges against a Lindsborg man accused of traveling to a foreign country to have sex with minors, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A Henry County, Ky., man, who was previously convicted of several child exploitation offenses, has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Mills today ordered a New Canton, Ill., man, Ralph David Hathaway, 48, to serve 400 months (33 years, 4 months) in federal prison for transporting a minor with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity and two counts of travel with intent to...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- The North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park will open as scheduled, on May 15, with limited visitor services and water conservation measures due to a break in the North Rim water pipeline. This damaged water line does not affect South Rim or Phantom Ranch operations.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: APR 13 - BOSTON - A former United Parcel (UPS) employee was sentenced in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a cocaine trafficking organization that shipped cocaine concealed in UPS packages from Puerto Rico to Massachusetts.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: In the 220 years since the establishment of Highland (Cape Cod) Light as the first lighthouse on Cape Cod, lighthouse technology at stations on Cape Cod and across the country has evolved. Stations had fixed or flashing lights to differentiate them. Double light and triple light configurations, such...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Albert Jason Miller (46, Jacksonville) with wire fraud and filing a false tax-related document. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison on the fraud charge, and up to 3 years’ imprisonment...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Charges include dispensing pain killers which resulted in the deaths of three patients.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHAEL HILARIO MARTINEZ, age 40, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months probation, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $52,000.00 for EMBEZZLEMENT AND THEFT FROM INDIAN TRIBAL ORGANIZATION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1163 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lawrenceville, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for paying a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and stream it online, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: A Detroit Emergency Room physician was charged by complaint for performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on minor females.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: HELENA - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Richard Charles Saari, 33, of East Helena, was sentenced to a term of 135 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, and a special assessment of $100 during a federal court hearing in Helena, Montana, on April 12, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell. In addition, the defendant was also required to pay a $5,000 assessment for the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule intended to stabilize the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge’s EM program is using a new machine designed and assembled at the site to process contaminated soil from the Tank W-1A cleanup project workers completed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Earlier this month, Vaughn Paul James, 24, of Sanders, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 300 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. James had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder-aid and abet. James’s co-defendant, Nolan Lewis, 30, of Kykotsmovi, Ariz., had also previously pleaded guilty to the same crime and received the same sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Charges include dispensing pain killers which resulted in the deaths of three patients.