News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, James Dewayne Munkus, 55, of St. David, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 108 months’ imprisonment. Munkus had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) announced up to $20 million in funding for nine projects to advance early-stage solar power electronics technologies. These innovations are critical to address solar photovoltaic (PV) reliability challenges, as well as to drive down the cost of installing and maintaining a PV solar system. These innovations will help achieve DOE’s goal to cut the cost of electricity for a solar system in half by 2030.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant was dumping truckloads of sewage into Little Huff Creek in Wyoming County.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph urges parents to attend the “Let’s Talk about Prevention" program to be held Thursday, April 19, at 6 p.m. at the C. E. Byrd High School auditorium in Shreveport. Refreshments will be served beginning at 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who sold over 100 pounds of marijuana was sentenced on April 17, 2018, to 23 months in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Arizona Marketing Produce Distributors Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - On Tuesday, Nathan W. Balser, 31, of Campbell County, Kentucky, was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison, by United States District Judge David Bunning, for Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DR. RAFAEL PRATS, age 64, a resident of Miami, Florida, was sentenced to three years probation today after previously pleading guilty to a twelve-count indictment charging conspiracy to commit theft of medical products, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By State Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Policy Toward a Turbulent Middle East." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Garrett Okubo, of Honolulu, Hawaii, pled guilty today in federal court to four counts of health care fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1347.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, James Dewayne Munkus, 55, of St. David, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 108 months’ imprisonment. Munkus had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Former Deputy Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department, Celia Washington, 57, of Detroit, was sentenced to twelve months in prison today based on her conviction for conspiring with Gasper Fiore to commit bribery in connection with the corruption of towing permits in Detroit, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Napier, age 34, of Waterford, New York, pled guilty today to accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Terrance Robinson, a/k/a “Rico," age 31, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to distributing cocaine and cocaine base (a/k/a crack cocaine).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Clarence Adams, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 250 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Offers $30,000 Reward for Information Related to Deaths of Three Women.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: Price, UT - To commemorate National Trails Day, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office will lead a public auto tour of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail through Utah’s San Rafael Swell on Saturday, June 2, 2018, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
Release: DALLAS - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), in partnership with Dallas Love Field (DAL), has upgraded the automated baggage screening system to increase speed, efficiency, and reduce the risk of injury for TSA Transportation Security Officers (TSOs). The new mobile Inspection Table (MIT)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Salinas resident Ana Bajo, a/k/a Ana Covarrubias, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to file fraudulent claims for income tax refunds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
