News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that a federal Grand Jury indicted 22 people for their roles in drug trafficking and money laundering operations that included the use of Casa Herrera, a local money remitter business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Richard R. Hemingway, 22, of Ludlow, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to providing false information to a federal firearms licensee (“FFL") and filling out a false Firearms Transaction Record during the purchase of two firearms. Hemingway was indicted in June 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Due to low lake levels and the narrowness of the area, a portion of Lake Powell near Page, Arizona between the Glen Canyon Dam and Wahweap (commonly known as Anchovy Point) has been marked with no-wake buoys. Anyone navigating the area is advised to watch for underwater hazards on both sides.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Georgina Warren, 34, of Dennehotso, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 84 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Warren had previously pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Calvert J. Drummond, Jr., age 35, of Greenville, was sentenced to 46 months’ imprisonment in federal court in Anderson related to a conspiracy to commit wire fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain, of Anderson, imposed sentence and also ordered Drummond to pay $742,000 in restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Wesley Allen Krohn was sentenced to five years in prison for perpetrating a bank robbery spree, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Special Agent in Charge John Bennett of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s San Francisco Division and Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI’s Sacramento Division. The Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., United States District Judge, handed down the sentence on Aug. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- United States Attorney Trent Shores announced the sentencing of Jennifer Elizabeth Boyce and Christina Ann Dempsey for their participation in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone resulting in death. Today, United States District Judge John E. Dowdell sentenced Christina Ann Dempsey to eight...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON, Aug. 21, 2018-"Pathogens and Pesticides-Research Topics in Food and Environmental Safety" was the title of James N. Seiber's 2018 Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Sterling B. Hendricks Memorial Lecture, delivered today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall National Meeting in Boston.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) works closely with private business and academic partners to evolve the traditional reactive cyber defense approach to one that is more collaborative, proactive and timely. This work on a new cybersecurity paradigm could eliminate some of the manual steps in cyber protection and enable effective collective defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Kevin Michael Hutchinson (36, Orlando) to 10 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Hutchinson was also ordered to serve a 7-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Jonathan Foggie, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to a Superseding Information charging him with two counts of Hobbs Act Robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Toroski Wolfe, 32, of Canton, was sentenced today, by United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to two years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Wolfe was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Charles Daniel Yandle, age 42, of Thomaston, Georgia, entered a guilty plea to a Superseding Information alleging Distribution of Methamphetamine before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Clay D. Land in Columbus, Georgia on Aug. 20, 2018. This plea subjects Mr. Yandle to a maximum sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment, a fine of up to $1 million, or both.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: The Honorable Chuck Grassley. Chairman. United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 224 Dirksen Senate Office Building. Washington, DC 20510. Dear Chairman Grassley, I write today regarding Judge Kavanaugh’s troubling views on women’s reproductive rights, including the constitutional right to safe, ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 250,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - Workers at EM’s Portsmouth Site recently rehabilitated six water wells, restoring them to their original design performance with substantially increased flow rates.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Irwin Carl Foster, 38, of Ft. Defiance, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 41 months’ imprisonment. Foster had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Following is a first-person account by EM Assistant Secretary Anne White on her trip to Japan as part of a delegation attending the U.S.-Japan Bilateral Commission on Civil Nuclear Cooperation, the U.S.-Japan Decommissioning Forum, and a tour of the Fukushima Daiichi Site from Aug. 7-10.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY . DEA ANNOUNCES 5,456 DRUG-RELATED OVERDOSE DEATHS IN PENNSYLVANIA IN 2017. Contact: Supervisory Special Agent Patrick J. Trainor, Public Information Officer, (215) 852-8740. (PHILADELPHIA) - Jon Wilson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia...
