News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement officials, today announced that 13 men have been charged with federal offenses related to the illegal possession of firearms in Hartford. These prosecutions have been brought through Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and make neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that an illegal alien from Honduras was sentenced to a total of 36 months in prison for re-entering the United States after being deported on two previous occasions and for violating an earlier term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Adrian Rubin, 61, of Jenkintown, was sentenced to 37 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release, ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and $400 special assessment, and ordered to forfeit $9,621,800 in proceeds from his crimes. Rubin previously admitted to collecting unlawful debt from payday loans and helping his sons, Blake and Chase Rubin, orchestrate a multi-million-dollar telemarketing scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny and Failure to Appear.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield with distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Jonathan Cadet, 30, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to one count of witness tampering in violation of 18 United States Code § 1512(d)(1). Cadet faces a maximum term of imprisonment of three years when he is sentenced on Nov. 26, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Chemists are developing processes for analyzing Hanford tank waste before it’s turned into glass inside the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Prosecutors Will Join Events throughout the Western District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven J. Anichowski, 26, of San Diego, Calif., was arraigned yesterday morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on an indictment charging him with conspiring to violate the Illegal Export and Attempted Export of Defense Articles Act by scheming to illegally export defense articles to Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cody Childress, age 29, of Jamesville, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 7 years in prison for possessing and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than two months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Iordan Bossev, age 22, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday to 6 years in prison for child sex and child pornography crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: * Smoke from the lightning-ignited Folsom Fire may be visible from the Grand Loop Road between Mammoth Hot Springs and Tower-Roosevelt.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita woman pleaded guilty today to prying open a display case and stealing guns from a local store, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Buhler, Kan., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to meet with an undercover law enforcement officer whom he believed was a teenage prostitute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: The lightning caused Moccasin Mesa Fire remains at 185 acres. This fire began Saturday, August 4, 2018 as a result of a lighting storm the previous evening. Growth on the fire progressed rapidly on Saturday, burning in pinon and juniper fuels, but the use of air resources on August 4 and 5 allowed for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man was indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with submitting false insurance information for a high-priced cholesterol drug in 2014 and 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: In support of the administration’s goals of achieving energy dominance and sustainable development of our natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Willow Master Development Plan (MDP) in the Bear Tooth Unit (BTU) of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Since 2015, scientists have been gathering data on the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault system offsite link, a 746-mile long strike-slip fault line that extends from offshore of Vancouver Island, Canada, to the Fairweather Range of southeast Alaska. The team has gathered high-resolution bathymetric data through multibeam sonar across 5,792 square miles of the ocean bottom.
