News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that “Operation Nor’easter," a heroin and opioid centered Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Operation headed up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation resulted in the indictment of twelve (12) defendants for...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that William Andrews, age 32, was found guilty of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person following a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Newell Mowry, 66, of Paterson, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $32,500 in restitution to four victims and a $5,000 special assessment to the Domestic Trafficking Victims’ Fund. Mowry pleaded guilty on March 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $2.09 Billion Penalty for Allegedly Misrepresenting Quality of Loans Used in Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant Got Access to Checks Written to Companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge relating to Social Security fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of ALEXIS RIVERA CASTILLO.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the passage of legislation that renewed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to collect user fees from the makers of new animal drugs and generic animal drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Jordan Goard, 27, of Fayette County, was sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Goard’s sentence will run concurrently with a state sentence of over 60 years. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the United States Marshals Service CUFFED Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: An Ashtabula man was indicted in federal court on child pornography charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Once again, the Port Oneida Rural Historic District awakens from its peaceful slumber and comes alive both Friday and Saturday, August 10-11. Beginning at 10:00 a.m. each day and running until 4:00 p.m., visitors are invited to step back in time to actively experience life as it was in this once active...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE., Wyo. - For the second year in a row, the Bureau of Land Management, the Wyoming Conservation Corps and the Wyoming Wilderness Association partnered to conserve important areas in the Red Desert. This summer, the WCC crew improved trails, reclaimed roads and repaired fences in the Northern...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s finalization of rules to further sabotage the health care system by expanding insurance companies’ ability to sell junk plans that skirt patient protections, including for those with pre-existing conditions and for maternity care.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man affiliated with the Vine/Forest Street and Orchard Park gangs was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 7, 2018, Bradley Gene Romero, 32, of Newport, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, to serve 228 months in federal prison for his role in a significant methamphetamine (meth) conspiracy and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Yankton, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The two Search and Rescue (SAR) call-outs yesterday, July 30, 2018, are good reminders of the need for visitors to take trip planning and their safety seriously. Both incidents occurred in the Left Fork of North Creek, on a popular permitted route known as “The Subway".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Mercer County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - After a two-day trial presided by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gustavo Gelpi, a Puerto Rican man was found guilty Tuesday of possessing and training animals for dog fighting. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation that led to the arrest and subsequent conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation today issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) for the Planet Ranch Conservation Area. The Planet Ranch Conservation Area is being developed to create, enhance, and restore native habitat as part of...
