News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 6, 2018, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Wellco Enterprises, Inc. (Wellco), and Tactical Holdings Operations, Inc. (Tactical Holdings), Vincent Lee Ferguson, 66, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 41 months in federal prison for his role in a wire fraud conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila’s decision to step down...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Jamaican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for misuse of a Social Security number and aggravated identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: AUG. 8, 2018 - The report titled “Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2016 " looks at access to computers and broadband internet subscriptions nationwide. Differences can be seen by demographic, social and geographic characteristics across the digital divide between those who have and those who lack access to computers and the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks has been charged with conspiring to accept bribe payments while serving as the City of Atlanta’s Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - Beginning at 12:01a.m. on Thursday, August 9, discharging a firearm and overnight camping will be prohibited on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the Gooseneck area, located northwest of Dallas, Ore. Extremely dry conditions in conjunction with current and expected weather forecasts...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - The Lassen National Forest and Bureau of Land Management have reopened campgrounds and recreation sites at Eagle Lake, as fire crews have completely contained the Whaleback Fire within fire lines. The agencies have also rescinded or reduced area closures.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Beginning in May 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Park Service (NPS) began receiving reports of dead and dying seabirds from the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas, including in the vicinity of the Western Arctic National Parklands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on August 7, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shannon Allen, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Mariano Lake, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 34 months in prison for her conviction on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Allen will be on supervised release for three years after completing her prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH BARROS, 37, of Norwich, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson welcomes the announcement of the Dairy Revenue Program, a new risk management product for our nation’s dairy producers approved through the Federal Crop Insurance Act process by USDA-RMA earlier today...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Fredericksburg man was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for his role in a heroin distribution conspiracy and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Walker Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Defendant Abused the Girl Over Period of Years.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: Transition to fall hours of operation will begin at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Sunday August 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force, authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants named in a series of indictments that allege the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics from Mexico on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a three-year investigation by the Los Angeles Strike Force, authorities this morning arrested 20 defendants named in a series of indictments that allege the smuggling of large quantities of narcotics from Mexico on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City - RICHARD SPILLANE, 30, of Oklahoma City, was indicted yesterday on charges of producing and receiving child pornography, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Texas woman was charged today with escaping from custody at a halfway house where she was serving a sentence for fraud, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
