News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Fire burned actively through the night, with single tree torching and spotting producing growth to the southwest. Additional spotting and growth were observed on the north edge of the fire on the southern slope of Mount Stanton, as well as the northwest edge of the fire toward Rogers Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, MS - Keith Lavell Brown, age 46, of Moss Point, Mississippi, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOE Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider two additional nominees for the Department of Energy (DOE). The nominees are William Cooper to be General Counsel and Lane Genatowski to be Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: For Distribution of Cocaine. SOUTH BEND - Shauntel Chambers, age 33, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio on his guilty plea to distribution of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Chambers was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has reached settlements with two clinical psychology practices: Michael Vredevoogd P.C., and Apex Behavioral Health-Dearborn, P.L.L.C., to resolve allegations that they violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"), U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas J. Howe, age 38, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in prison and 3 years of post-release supervision for committing fraud and identity theft.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A New Port Richey man was indicted Wednesday on federal charges of enticement of a minor and with producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. The indictments follow an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - The Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration announced today a proposal to significantly reduce the aggregate production quotas for certain prescription opioids. The attached press release provides more detailed information.: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-dea-propose-significant-opioid-manufacturing-reduction-2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced that he will convene a hearing to consider Michael Faulkender to be Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Elizabeth Darling to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families. The hearing will take place on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 10 a.m. in 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building.
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for the armed kidnapping of a Quincy man and two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jerry Lyle Andrews Jr., 35, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr., to five years in prison for being a felon in possession a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: This morning, federal and state authorities arrested 22 individuals for their alleged roles in a narcotics distribution activities in the Waco and Killeen areas, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; FBI Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to narcotics and firearm charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Quincy man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on drug trafficking and firearm charges.
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 Homeland Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
Release: CHARLESTON, WV. - A man was cited by police after a Transportation Security Administration officer at Yeager Airport (CRW) spotted a handgun in the man’s carry-on bag at the airport checkpoint on Wednesday, August 16.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly requesting a briefing and documents on the decision to revoke former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: “Opioids, Alcohol and Athletes," a Collaborative Project of Bernalillo County Dept. of Behavioral Health, New Mexico Activities Association, New Mexico PTA, and Christopher Productions, LLC, Distributed to Middle and High Schools throughout New Mexico.
