News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TIMOTHY JOHNSON, age 35, pled guilty yesterday to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Phoenix, Ariz., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after being arrested at a local bus station with nearly five kilograms of methamphetamine in his duffle bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Mark Randall Jones, 52, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III, to serve a term of 360 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release and to pay a $25,000 fine for conspiring to possess with...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH LAKES, Calif. - Crews working for Ormat Nevada, Inc. have started work on a geothermal monitoring well on an existing well pad just south of Shady Rest Park, near Mammoth Lakes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - The government unsealed an indictment today in which a federal grand jury has charged seven defendants, including a corrections officer, with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: The Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant is Part of Comprehensive DOJ Plan to Reduce Violent Crime in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Case involved illegal prescribing practices at a Georgetown, Ky. pain clinic.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The House Committee on Homeland Security yesterday took two votes that unanimously rejected key features of President Trump’s Border Wall plan. This occurred while the Committee was considering H.R. 3548 - also known as the Taking Americans' Land to Build Trump's Wall Act. While Democrats...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: DALLAS -Bryce Edward Hansen, 44, of Dallas, Texas, who pleaded guilty in February 2017 to one count of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 300 months in federal prison. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Yuma, AZ - On Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Desalting Plant (YDP), located at 7301 Calle Agua Salada, will conduct a test of its emergency chemical alarm system. The test will be conducted to verify that the plant’s emergency readiness system is fully operational to support evacuation and safety procedures in the event the facility experiences an incidental chemical release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Wallingford, Ky. woman was indicted today for engaging in crop insurance fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Given a finding by the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada that the Bureau of Land Management’s designation of Sagebrush Focal Areas in its 2015 greater sage-grouse plan amendment for Nevada was illegal, the Bureau today offered the public an opportunity to comment and share issues for its...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS: “The next time you drive by the Chickasaw Village Site on the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway), take a second look to figure out what you don’t see," challenged Parkway Landscape Architect Greg Smith. “Tombigbee Electric Power Association removed the unused aerial power lines and associated poles from the Site. The power line used to bisect the site and detract from the view of this historic place.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce violent crime in the United States. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of "Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kevin Mattson, age 40, of Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with receipt and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: A man who fled the scene of a traffic stop while intoxicated and carrying a loaded pistol in his waistband was sentenced today to 71 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was charged today in federal court in Worcester with distributing methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a new report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration concluding that progressive groups were singled out for additional scrutiny when applying for tax exempt status...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Two Lewisburg defendants pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Joshua Adam Smith, 35, entered his guilty plea to distribution of oxymorphone. Jessica Nicole Honaker, 26, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of oxymorphone.
