News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Gardner man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for illegally possessing ammunition and distributing fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A Romanian national and weapons trafficker, convicted of conspiring to kill officers and employees of the U.S. government, and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, was returned to his home country Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: KANAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is initiating a 90-day comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) and for Federal lands previously included in the GSENM that are now...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was charged in federal court today with stealing dozens of firearms from an Independence, Mo., gun store.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Manhattan man today admitted robbing banks in Jackson Township, Fort Lee, and Hasbrouck Heights, as well as attempting to burglarize a fourth bank in Englewood between December 2013 and February 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Robert “Bob" Krumenaker, a veteran National Park Service (NPS) superintendent experienced in natural resource management, has been named superintendent of Big Bend National Park by NPS Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica. Krumenaker, superintendent of Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin since 2002, will assume his new duties on Sept. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Doug William Matthews, of New Martinsville, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin distribution that spanned multiple states, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for its Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) Transportation Tracking and Communication (TRANSCOM) Follow-On Service Contract.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - The Radpipers moved at what their creators called an “impressively efficient pace" - up to 10 feet per minute - within the 30-inch and 42-inch-diameter uranium enrichment process pipes. That may seem like a crawl, but it’s what the multitasking robots do while they’re on the move that’s impressive.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today on charges related to the kidnapping and murder of another man.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at the Hanford Site met a yearly groundwater-treatment goal nearly two months early, reducing risk to the Columbia River and shrinking the size of contaminated areas, or plumes, of groundwater.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. - A new state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanner (CT) that provides 3-D imaging is being tested at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Baltimore Washington International-Thurgood Marshall Airport. The new technology provides critical explosives detection capabilities at the checkpoint.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - In the wake of continuing vandalism, the Bureau of Land Management and Susanville Indian Rancheria have begun video monitoring at Tommy Tucker Cave, an important eastern Lassen County archaeological site. The cameras can transmit real-time video to federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Edward R. Daniel, a/k/a Edward Daniels, Judy Daniel, and the Edward R. Daniel Revocable Living Trust (collectively “Daniel"), a landlord participating in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher/Section 8 (HCV) Program has paid the United States $50,000.00...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tara Ponceroff, of Morgantown, West Virginia, had an initial appearance today to face multiple child pornography charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: “Norman Seabrook was once one of the most powerful union leaders in this City. Today he stands convicted of taking a $60,000 bribe to invest $20 million of his union members’ money in a fund that ultimately went belly-up, losing $19 million. Seabrook’s is the fifth major public corruption conviction...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, United States District Judge Xavier Rodriguez sentenced Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) members Jesse Santibanez and Alfredo Cardona to life in federal prison for their roles in the murder of Balcones Heights Police Officer Julian Pesina in 2014, announced United States Attorney John...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities have arrested 12 defendants on federal narcotics and fraud charges stemming from an investigation into the Puente 13 Street Gang. Those arrested last night and this morning are among 17 defendants named in a series of indictments returned by a federal grand jury that allege various offenses, including narcotics, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. The other five charged defendants were already in federal and state custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Post Acute Medical Agrees to Pay More Than $13 Million to Settle Allegations of Kickbacks and Improper Physician Relationships.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Set up Shell Companies, Filed Frivolous Claims and Sent Forged Money Orders to Evade Taxes.
