News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Andrew Waite, 29, of Turner, Maine, was charged by indictment in U.S. District Court with illegal possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, illegal possession of a silencer without a serial number that was not registered to him, and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - No, Damon Horn is not the “Six-Million-Dollar Man." He doesn’t even try to imitate actor Lee Majors’s 1970s science fiction TV character.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Bank Admits to Helping U.S. Taxpayers Conceal Income and Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: 15 Defendants Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 198,862 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to Mexico. Of the total 146,781 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year and 52,081 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation finalized an Environmental Assessment and signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed approval of the one-time transfer of up to 2,500 acre-feet of Central Valley Project water from Tulare Irrigation District to Wutchumna Water Company for late-season irrigation deliveries.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles Blackman, a/k/a Ralph Jones, and Quinton Williams were sentenced to federal prison by U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg for altering the prices of merchandise, through an elaborate “ticket-switching scheme" at The Home Depot and Lowe’s on Aug. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD - On Aug. 28, 2018, United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced the formation of a Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force in Rapid City, South Dakota, and highlighted some of the initiative’s early successes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quavonte Pugh and Caveizz Cunningham, both of Wheeling, West Virginia, have admitted to drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Sandy Green, of Fairborn, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to wire fraud as part of a scheme to defraud her previous employers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal district court judge approved a settlement resolving alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act in and around the Van Duzen River by Humboldt County landowner, Jack Noble. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Alex G. Tse, Acting Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Tommie Raymond Thomas (50, Sumter County, Florida) today pleaded guilty to one count of stalking. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: For the fourth year, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is conducting an artwork contest to select an image for the front of the park’s Annual Park Entrance Pass. The focus of the contest centers around the Every Kid in a Park program, which has the central goal of connecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that MARCOS ELIAS, a Brazilian citizen and resident, was extradited...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Cleophus Dentmond, aka “Face," 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, was sentenced to serve six months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: The National Historic Landmarks Program would like to share some exciting news-we have new websites live on NPS.gov!.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected two projects to receive approximately $7 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. These projects will address technical research needs and key challenges in advancing associated geologic storage in support of DOE’s Carbon Storage Program.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in September.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) and tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) go to great lengths to learn more about the nature and extent of contamination around and beneath Hanford ’s waste storage tanks. Most recently, a project team went about 285 feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN) caporegime was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for obstructing a federal investigation into the murder of a Boston nightclub owner in the 1990s.
