News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 35-year-old Corpus Christi resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for possession with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids and possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Andrew Hernandez pleaded guilty Feb. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Total of 27 Individuals Charged to Date.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Marcus Reese, 38, of Jackson, was sentenced today, by United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to 57 months 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 Dana Nichols of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Reese was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Marcus Veal, age 33, of Centerville, Georgia was convicted of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm today by a jury in Macon. The verdict was handed down following a trial before U.S. District Court Judge Tilman E. Self, III. Mr. Veal is facing a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. Sentencing is set for Nov. 27, 2018 in Macon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Andrew Bunchuk a/k/a/ Andrew Bassaner, 45, and Vicki Bunchuk, 45, both of Southampton, Pennsylvania, were sentenced to 42 months’ and 6 months’ imprisonment, respectively, for tax fraud. The defendants were tried together and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Richard Dzionara-Norsen, 26, of Brighton, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession and distribution of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 5 years imprisonment and maximum of 20 years imprisonment, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, blasted the Trump Administration's proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan, the most ambitious climate action the United States has ever taken.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Trump announced his replacement program for the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after President Trump announced his replacement program for the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jaycie Mario Thomas, 35, of Forest, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Nine individuals are facing criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation into heroin and cocaine sales in the Joliet area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Indiana County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Farmer Guilty of Filing False and Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued its first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2019. The Phase I Release 1 FOA, with approximately $31 million in available funding, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Total of 27 Individuals Charged to Date.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announced today its goal to reopen parts of the park by Sept. 22 - National Public Lands Day - as long as the current pause in earthquakes and collapse-explosion events at the summit of Kīlauea continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Kansas City woman was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for selling heroin to a user who suffered a near-fatal overdose, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan rule.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) stopped a man with a handgun at one of the airport’s checkpoints Aug. 19, marking the 19th gun caught at the airport so far this year. Last year TSA officers detected 26 firearms at the airport’s checkpoints.
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.
