News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael Bickford, age 38, formerly of Perkinsville, Vermont, was sentenced on August 6, 2018 in the United States District Court in Burlington on charges stemming from the December 5, 2016 armed robbery of the River Street...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Defendants part of July 2018 federal document and benefit fraud sweep.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: A Youngstown man was indicted for using a firearm and drug house to distribute marijuana, crack cocaine and other drugs.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute’s Safety, Health and Environmental Services Group; Choate Construction Co.; and Associated General Contractors of Georgia Inc. (AGC Georgia) to promote worker safety and health during the construction of the Holbrook of Woodstock, a senior living development project in Woodstock, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Note: This will be the last update for the Keauhou Fire unless conditions significantly change.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have proposed a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent with President Trump’s “Safe Prescribing Plan" that seeks to “cut nationwide opioid prescription fills...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: The body of a climber was successfully recovered Wednesday from the base of Dewey Peak in Mount Rainier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Joshua Hicks, 35, of Charleston, pled guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of counterfeit U.S. currency. Stuart praised the investigation conducted by the St. Albans Police Department, the United States Secret Service, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City man today admitted that he swindled two investors of $3.4 million by falsely representing that his businesses had secured lucrative contracts to sell olive oil to major retailers, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - Best in the Desert (BITD) will be holding their annual Vegas to Reno desert off-highway vehicle race beginning on Friday, Aug. 17, at approximately 5:15 a.m., near the town of Beatty, Nevada with the final participants finishing near the town of Dayton, Nevada around 11 a.m., on Saturday, August 18. The event will be held on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management within the Tonopah, Stillwater and Sierra Front field offices.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond, Virginia, man was arrested at Richmond International Airport on Wednesday, Aug. 15, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Demetrius William Harris, a/k/a “Demetrius Diggs," age 34, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Aug. 15, 2018, to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Diggs had five previous convictions for drug distribution or violent crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A former bank employee has been ordered to prison for her admissions of she stealing more than $1 million from customer accounts, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Cynthia Luna Rodriguez, 45, pleaded guilty Jan. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: James Orion Fox, 49, of Nashville, Tennessee, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury and charged with two counts of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas- Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown touted today’s announcement from the Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) proposing a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent with President Trump’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: "Here, the defendant exploited a precious piece of Virgin Islands history for his own purposes. And a Virgin Islands jury held him accountable.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Kentucky. Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have proposed a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Following a three-day jury trial, a Las Vegas man was found guilty of using a filing sharing network and the internet to receive and distribute sexually explicit images and videos of children, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Claude Turner, age 38, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 14, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Indiana men are charged with labor-related extortion offenses in a three-count Indictment unsealed today, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II for the Northern District of Indiana...
