News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - A Glade Spring man, who was on federal supervised release when authorities discovered him illegally in possession of a firearm, was sentenced last week to 27 months in prison on a federal firearms charge and an additional 18 consecutive months on a supervised release revocation, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi labor camp guard in German-occupied Poland and a postwar resident of Queens, New York, has been removed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Germany, Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the U.S. Department of Justice, Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Thrice convicted drug felon participated in conspiracy that distributed more than five pounds of meth.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers added a critical component to a training facility this month to eventually help remove radioactive soil beneath a former chemical laboratory.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Teresa Emerson, 59, of Bristol, Virginia, pled guilty today to aiding and abetting obtaining a controlled substance by fraud. Stuart praised the investigation conducted by the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on Aug. 21, 2018, Robert Shawn Parker, age 32, Lenox, Georgia, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Hugh Lawson in Macon to 61 months imprisonment, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for a conviction of Possession of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Glacier Point Road Remains Closed Due to Ongoing Fire Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - TREVO, LLC, and it principals, MARK STEVENS and HOLLI STEVENS, have agreed not to contest the distribution of $610,800 to victims of an alleged email fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a felon from Many pleaded guilty Monday to possessing four firearms after an assault and police standoff at a barbershop.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CLEVELAND - While in Cleveland, Ohio, Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the unsealing of a 43-count indictment in federal court in Cleveland, which charges two Chinese citizens with operating a conspiracy that manufactured and shipped deadly fentanyl analogues and 250 other drugs to at least 25 countries and 37 states. The indictment also alleges the drugs sold by the group directly led to the fatal overdoses of two people in Akron, Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation released final environmental documents for a proposed water acquisition for National Wildlife Refuges within the Klamath Basin Refuge Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito today announced a Hammonton, New Jersey man was sentenced to 108 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crystal methamphetamine in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Southeast Texas teen was sentenced Tuesday to 19 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids and discharging a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A St. Louis, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute at least a kilogram of heroin in Greene County, Mo.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Construction work on the Gros Ventre Roundabout and other safety improvements continue along U.S. Highway 89/26/191 in the southern area of Grand Teton National Park. The project is planned to be completed by the end of November.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Former U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler receives Richard S. Arnold Award for Distinguished Service.
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: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today Richard Monroe, age 26, was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, for possessing firearms in furtherance of his cocaine trafficking and discharging a handgun and ...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Harvey Cleary Builders of Houston, Texas, have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety and educate workers on hazards during a construction project in the District of Columbia.
