News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Russell Harrison, 40, of Temple Hills, Md., pled guilty today to possessing six firearms in furtherance of his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL) contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation (CHPRC) and parent company Jacobs Engineering are set to conduct a final assessment Aug. 13-23 of the contractor’s readiness to resume demolition of Hanford ’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - The Obi Fire is estimated at 7,420 acres. For additional daily updates and photos, visit the Obi Fire Inciweb incident page,.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that John R. Hauk, 40, Town of Barksdale, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Hauk pleaded guilty to this charge on May 3, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Newly Added Defendant Faces Related Money Laundering Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Byron Lee White, 36, of Lexington, has pleaded guilty, to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl and heroin.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - The Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will be closed Wednesday in anticipation of Hurricane Hector. At this time, Hector is forecast to pass 200 miles south of Hawai‘i Island and is expected to bring damaging surf, heavy rain and dangerous winds to the Puna and Ka‘ū Districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Adam W. Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2017 killing of Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla, and shooting of two other men - Indian national Alok Madasani and Kansas resident Ian Grillot - at Austins Bar...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - Effective immediately, the Bureau of Land Management will temporarily close public lands and routes in Rio Blanco county within the area of the Red Canyon Fire to ensure public safety and reduce damage to the land.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Five Queens residents were charged Tuesday pursuant to an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York’s Border Enforcement Task Force (BEST). This investigation, worked by HSI special agents and taskforce members from...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty in federal court today to making a deal to buy two tiger pelts in violation of the federal Lacey Act, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: Co-Conspirators Imported, Manufactured, and Distributed Counterfeit Nike Air Jordans, Resulting in Estimated Loss of More Than $70 Million.
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: 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: Tampa, Florida - Josue Antonio Ortega (36, Dade City) today pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute heroin and to violating the animal fighting provisions of the federal Animal Welfare Act. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison on the heroin charge, and up to 5 years in federal prison on the Animal Welfare Act charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A 23-year-old Peabody, MA, man previously convicted in Rhode Island state court on multiple drug trafficking charges today was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Eric Lorenzo Sanchez, 25, of Second Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 18 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Sanchez, an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe, had previously pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered weapon made from a shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Aug. 1, 2018, a Federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment charging Creative Educational and Psychological Services, Inc., the president of the corporation Coral Rivera-Arroyo, and three other employees with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former Chief Executive Officer of ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Newark, New Jersey for his role in a scheme to commit securities and wire fraud from 2006 through 2011.
