News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyrone D. Marshall, age 37, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Albany and Rensselaer Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Beaumont Residents Guilty in Federal Drug Trafficking Case
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Eastpointe, Michigan, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of aiding or assisting in the preparation or filing of false federal income tax returns, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management High Desert District Rawlins Field Office is lifting fire restrictions for all BLM-administered lands within the boundaries of Albany County as of Aug. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Individual Who May Have Information Regarding the Identity of a Child Sexual Assault Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Charleston, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with distributing fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released a report documenting the Administration’s proposed funding cuts in the upcoming fiscal year for Inspectors General (IGs)-nonpartisan and independent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Brooklyn, New York, have been sentenced in federal court on their conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Omar Ameen, 45, an Iraqi national, wanted on a murder charge in Iraq, appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Sacramento, California today in connection with proceedings to extradite him to face trial in Iraq. Ameen settled in Sacramento as a purported refugee and attempted to gain legal status in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Growth of the Obi Fire was minimal this morning, but as the sun dried out fine fuels, the fire reanimated and became semi-active. The majority of the fire growth was in the southern section of the Wahalla Plateau. The Fire is now estimated at 10,067 acres.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Shawn Harris, Commissioner of the Mount Vernon Police Department (“MVPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: An August 2nd traffic stop on Interstate 44 in southwest St. Louis County has led to the indictment of nine previously deported aliens who are alleged to have taken part in an alien smuggling scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Travis Wilmoth, age 31, of Fayetteville, North Carolina pleaded guilty today to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Wilmoth admitted that he traveled from North Carolina to Maryland to engage in sexually explicit conduct with a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The Chicago Drug Enforcement Administration, along with multiple high-level Mexican Government counterparts, the Chicago Police Department and various federal, state and local law enforcement partners, today unveiled an action plan for attacking Mexican drug cartels.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two men who, in separate incidents, attempted to entice minors to engage in sexual activity were sentenced today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for mail fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and Florida International University (FIU) are teaming to examine a range of fixative and coating materials that could be a major improvement to help stabilize residual contamination in excess nuclear facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Howard M. Appel, 57, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Following his plea of guilty, Appel was ordered detained by U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was arrested Wednesday on federal civil rights charges that allege he sexually assaulted one woman and twice raped another woman after abusing his official position to convince them not to report his violent conduct.
