News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Cooler weather, afternoon cloud cover and rain helped firefighters today on Hawaiʻi Island. The Keauhou Fire is now 90 percent contained, still at 3,739 acres on the northeastern slopes of Mauna Loa, and mostly within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Ruchlicki, age 62, of Clifton Park, New York, pled guilty today to one count of making a false statement, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Lawrence K. Patterson, 25, of St. Louis, was charged in a federal indictment charging him with one felony count of interference with commerce by threats or violence and one felony count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: AUG. 15, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau has named five new members and a chair to the Census Bureau’s Census Scientific Advisory Committee (CSAC). The committee provides advice on the design, operation and implementation of Census Bureau programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stacey E. Plaskett from the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment, sent a letter to FEMA Administrator William “Brock" Long, requesting a briefing on the decision to end FEMA’s transitional sheltering for Hurricane Maria survivors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - More than 100 people recently commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Hanford Site at an event titled “Evolution of the Secret City: A Fireside Chat about the Hanford Story.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Seven Rockford residents have been charged by a federal grand jury with multiple counts of wire fraud and additional offenses. FEUY KHAIKHAM, 57; LEEFORM XAYVANDY, SR., a.k.a. “John," 37; BOUNLEUNG THAMONTRI, a.k.a. “Tommy," 54; VANSY XAYVANDY a.k.a. “Dee," 42; SOM XAYVANDY, 47; CHRISTIANA XAYVANDY, a.k.a. “Tina," 26; and AUNG GYAW, a.k.a. “AJ," 23, were each charged with seventeen counts of wire fraud in a superseding indictment returned on July 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: MACON: United States Attorney Charles E. Peeler announces that Jasmine Jaquel Bradley, age 27, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced to serve more than fifteen (15) months in prison for conveying false information and perpetuating a hoax related to bomb threats made to a Macon-area daycare. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell on Aug. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - A federal jury today convicted a 47-year-old man of a bank robbery he committed just one day after being released from custody for a similar bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Grace M. Carducci, who is handling the civil case, the complaint seeks the forfeiture of.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Jeremias Robertson was Shot after Brandishing a Firearm at an APD Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Ronald “Ronnie G" Giallanzo, an acting captain in the Bonanno organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Dora L. Irizarry to a total of 14 years’ imprisonment for racketeering conspiracy, including predicate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nowlin Lee Waugh, Jr, age 35, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was found guilty by a federal jury of Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine. The jury trial began with testimony on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018 and concluded on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018 with the guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - With the bulk of firefighting efforts now focused on the northeast portion of the Carr Fire, officials at the Bureau of Land Management are now assessing damages and hazards within the public lands recreational trail network and working on plans to reopen trails to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: Two children - including a preschooler - allegedly met the buyer at a Roslindale apartment and led him to the opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Louisville, Kentucky man has been charged with possession and distribution of heroin after a Bowling Green woman died of an overdose, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner is the recipient of the ATF Director’s Honor Award, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
