News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Jackson County man to 15 years in prison for illegal gun possession after determining the man was an armed career criminal based on prior convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Paducah, Kentucky, returned a one-count indictment today charging James Eakes, a deputy jailer at the Fulton County Detention Center, with violating the civil rights of an inmate by assaulting him with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Lynchburg, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke has returned an indictment charging two former Rockbridge County Regional Jail officials with federal charges related to federal civil rights violations and falsifying...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A second defendant has pleaded guilty to unlawfully transporting illegal aliens, primarily Mexican citizens, within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL-The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Birmingham Division, will sponsor their annual conference on human and labor trafficking on Sunday, September 16 and Monday, Sept. 17, 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after a federal judge in South Carolina issued an injunction on the Trump administration's delay of the Clean Water Rule or Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Defendant admitted involvement in 10 bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Sixth Superseding Indictment Charges an Additional Defendant in a 2016 Murder in Freeport, and Adds a 2015 Murder in Babylon, a 2009 Attempted Murder in Brentwood and Drug Trafficking Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake woman pleaded guilty today to her involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, promoting the prostitution of several adult women and two minor girls, and to a charge of tampering with a witness against her.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and the California Department of Parks and Recreation (CDPR) are holding two public meetings to gather input on a proposal to continue restoration efforts in the Mill Creek area in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park unit of Redwood National and State Parks near Crescent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: FARGO - 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 one-third...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Information and plea agreement charge James Doyle with defrauding three banks in "check-kiting" scheme, failing to report more than $1M to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brett Lamar Heinbach, age 36, formerly of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Aug. 14, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA-National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Alexcy (Alex) Romero as the next superintendent of Fire Island National Seashore. He succeeds Chris Soller, who retired this year. Romero currently serves as superintendent of George Washington Memorial Parkway in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
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: 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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Trial dates have been scheduled in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City for two individuals charged in a five-count indictment in connection with an alleged Business Email Compromise (BEC) scheme. Charges include conspiracy to commit bank fraud by opening bank accounts under false identities in order to receive criminal proceeds generated by impersonating the officers of businesses and directing employees to wire money into the fraudulently opened accounts.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY-The northern section of the Moose-Wilson Road, between the Murie Ranch Junction and the Death Canyon Junction, is temporary closed to all visitors including motorists, cyclists, and hikers. The Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve and Death Canyon Trailhead can be accessed from the south. A similar closure went into effect Thursday, August 9 and was lifted Monday, August 13.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: KEMMERER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office invites families, individuals, clubs and organizations to come support our public lands and the local BLM office next Saturday, Aug. 25, by providing extra hands to rehab picnic tables in need of some repair at the Fontenelle Creek Campground located at the Fontenelle Reservoir. The rehab will consist of minor sanding and painting at various campsites throughout the campground.
