News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Gettysburg, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm and Destructive Device.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced improvements to the section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs product exclusion process...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office has charged two foreign nationals with credit card fraud. Mrejuica Madalin, 30, and Laszlo Solomes, 31, were arrested by St. Louis County Police on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 on suspicion of credit card fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Donnell, age 56, of Freeland, Maryland, was indicted on Aug. 29, 2018, by a federal grand jury for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL-The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)’s Birmingham Division will host their 13th annual joint conference on Sunday, September 16 and Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. This year’s conference focuses on the increasingly prevalent crimes of human and labor trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Join us for modern jon boat rides and an open house in the Big Spring Historic District on Saturday, September 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Visitors can enjoy a brief excursion on the Current River with a skilled local guide, departing from the boat dock in front of the Big Spring Dining...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center was sentenced in federal court today for smuggling contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury this week indicted a Dallas man for defrauding the Summer Food Service Program, a U.S. Department of Agriculture initiative that provides free meals to children in low-income areas when school is not in session.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to help Americans to increase their retirement savings...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Special Performance of Taps to Be Played at National POW Museum in Honor of John McCain.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Cooperative Effort Between Mini-Cassia Drug Task Force and Special Assistant United States Attorney Partnership Has Resulted in Fourteen from the Minidoka/ Cassia County Area being Prosecuted in Federal Court Over the Past Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Dillon McCandless, 28, of Blackfoot, was sentenced yesterday to 105 months in prison for the July 2017 robbery of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes’ Sage Hill Casino, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered that McCandless serve five years of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for dealing Oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a number of policies that will break down burdensome regulatory barriers in the Medicare program that get in the way of care for patients...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Lake Mead Ranger Thomas Kenneth “T.K." Brown died in the line of duty Aug. 31, 1973.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - People visiting the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River are now able to enjoy the view from Inspiration Point. The overlook has been closed for a two-year rehabilitation project, which created an expanded viewing area that is safer and more accessible.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The FBI has arrested five residents of a compound in Amalia, in Taos County, N.M. (Amalia Compound), on a federal criminal complaint charging them with violating the federal firearms and conspiracy laws. The arrests were announced by U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JOHN ANDREW PIPKIN a/k/a “Puppy", age 59 of Erwin, North Carolina, to 130 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Dr. Yu Xue, 48, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to benefit a Chinese pharmaceutical company named Renopharma.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: This morning, Friday, Aug. 31, a body was found by Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue ground team members west of Keplinger’s Couloir at 12,600 feet in elevation, in extremely steep, rugged terrain. Boulder County Coroner’s office will not release positive identification until completion of an autopsy. However, it is believed that the body is that of Jens “Jay" Yambert, 60, of Urbana, Illinois.
