News from August 2017
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Yuqing (Henry) Wang of Flushing, N.Y., for failing to comply with employment sanctions under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 43-year-old sergeant with the Progresso Police Department has been taken into custody on charges of aiding and abetting the attempt to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Luis Jimenez Cortez, a/k/a Fernando Castillo, 45, a native of Mexico living in Chicago, Illinois, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with aggravated identity theft and making materially false and fictitious statements to a federal officer. The charges carry a minimum penalty of two years in prison, a maximum of five years and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 29, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking two minors to engage in sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A former detective with the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, who was most recently assigned to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville to multiple charges...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: President Donald J. Trump has approved Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s selection of Capt. Michael Silah to serve as director of the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps and NOAA’s Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Travis Arthur Mustache, 35, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Albuquerque, N.M., to 37 months in prison for his conviction on federal involuntary manslaughter and assault charges. He will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Seven Bloods Gang Members Conspired to Kill Rivals on the Streets of Roosevelt, Long Island.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: The provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES -On Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, Josue Daniel Alfaro, a/k/a Danny Alfaro, a/k/a the “Great Outdoors Bandit," was arrested, pursuant to an arrest warrant for bank robbery, at the Los Angeles International Airport while attempting to board a Wow Airlines flight to Brussels, Belgium.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today urging the agency to investigate the Trump Administration’s enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mahendra Prasad, 55, of Fremont, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $328,000 in restitution for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: The popularity of walnuts is growing among health-conscious consumers, but processing these nutrient-vitamin-rich nuts could use some tweaking. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have developed a method that uses infrared technology to improve commercial processing, particularly drying, to reduce energy costs and deliver high-quality products.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON Ky. - A Lexington man, who pled guilty in May of 2017, was sentenced in federal court today, to five months in prison and five months home confinement. He was also ordered to pay a $5,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that U.S District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced Stephen Morrison to 21 months’ imprisonment on Aug. 11, 2017, for possession of AB-Pinaca (synthentic cannabinoid), a Schedule I controlled substance, and a sharpened weapon, commonly called a “shank," while an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Allenwood, Pennsylvania (FCI Allenwood).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita business owner was sentenced Monday to two years on supervised release and ordered to pay $256,000 in restitution for withholding taxes from employee salaries that he failed to pay over to the government, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 42 months in federal prison for lying to investigators in a 2016 interview following a stand-off between federal law enforcement officers and fugitive Orlando J. Collins, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Timothy Ortiz, aka Michael Fitton, 46, of Waukegan, Illinois, pleaded guilty today for his role in a large-scale smokeable synthetic cannabinoids trafficking organization that shipped misbranded synthetic drugs interstate from a processing lab in Millbrae, California, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2017
News Release: Kemmerer, Wyoming - On Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017, monument staff, volunteers and community partners will host a star party from 7pm to 11pm at the Fossil Butte National Monument visitor center. This event begins with a presentation by Paul Ricketts from the University of Utah’s Physics and Astronomy...
