News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Doran Skanes, 25, East Chicago, Indiana, and William Thomas, 18, West Bend, Indiana were sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson for their roles in the armed robbery of a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Jamaar Danglo Hayes (34, Tampa) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm. Hayes pleaded guilty on April 25, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: CAREY, Idaho - Effective immediately, the BLM Shoshone Field Office is temporarily closing public lands in and around the Sharps fire area in Blaine County due to potentially hazardous fire conditions. Approximately 128,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands are affected by this closure which covers all...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Michael James Frew Arrested in Nevada for Wire Fraud, Mail Fraud, and Money Laundering Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Shea Ryan Estes, 41, previously of McKinney, Texas, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release, including up to three months of community confinement, for transmitting threats in interstate commerce. Estes pleaded guilty on April 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina announced today that Early Autism Project, Inc. (“EAP") has paid the United States $8,833,615 to resolve a False Claims Act investigation that it submitted false claims to the TRICARE and the South Carolina Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was charged today in federal court in Boston with bank robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ATHOL, ID - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Merritt Bros. Lumber Company Inc. for exposing employees to multiple workplace safety hazards at its Athol facility. The Athol, Idaho-based company is facing $189,221 in proposed penalties.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Technology innovators are invited to an industry Stakeholder Summit, August 9 in Washington, DC, to learn about the highest priority needs of more than 7.5 million first responders in the global market. Hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Dannell Elanta Thompson, 37, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 48 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Stage 1 fire restrictions will go into effect on Thursday, Aug. 2, at 12:01 a.m. and last until further notice on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Elko District and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest’s Mountain City, Ruby Mountains and Jarbidge Ranger District in Northeastern...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Believed To Be Largest Port Seizure Of Fentanyl Pills Across the Southwest Border of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of JOHN HENRY EDMONDS, 35, to 80 months in prison for distribution of heroin, carfentanil, methamphetamine, and furanyl fentanyl. EDMONDS, who pleaded guilty on March 20, 2018, was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Carlos Bayon, 63, of Grand Island, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interstate communication of a threat. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis sentenced Nicole Jenice Samples, age 36, of Columbia, to one year incarceration as a result of her conviction for deprivation of civil rights, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 242.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Thomas James Adams, 23, of La Grande, Oregon, was sentenced today to 37 months in federal prison for sexually abusing a minor victim on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Statement at Press Briefing on Election Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 190 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin; being a felon in possession of a firearm; and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. D. Michael Dunavant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge William H. Steele sentenced Avery Varkese Nash on Aug. 2, 2018 to a term of 24 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the draft Initial Study and Environmental Assessment for proposed North Drainage Canal Lift Pump Station Project.
