News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Six Freeport residents were arrested yesterday on criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation into heroin and cocaine sales in the Freeport area. The arrests follow criminal indictments returned Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Rockford.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the announcement that the president intends to sign unspecified changes to NAFTA...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymond Whelan, 49, of Cheektowaga, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 31, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of her ongoing oversight of the Administration’s tariff and trade policies, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, this week joined Republican Chairman Ron Johnson in calling on four steel and aluminum...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An East Providence man was ordered detained in federal custody today on charges he received and possessed images of child pornography, allegedly sent to him by a Cranston man who was ordered detained in federal custody on Aug. 22, 2018, on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to threatening to kill the family of Ajit Pai, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, for Pai’s role in repealing regulations relating to net neutrality.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Convicted Felon Onic Martinez Transported Stolen Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Defendant Caught on Video Working at Flea Markets in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Lifting and Carrying Heavy Objects.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park transitions to winter hours as the 2018 cruise ship season concludes. Limited visitor services will be available October 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man and his Arizona-based supplier have been sentenced in federal court in Boston for trafficking methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Moose Lake, Minnesota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and for abusive sexual contact of a child under twelve years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Aug. 29, 2018, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a 21-count superseding indictment charging ROBERT V. MATTHEWS, 60, LESLIE R. EVANS, 71, and MARIA MATTHEWS, also known as “Mia Matthews," 48, all of Palm Beach, Florida, with various offenses stemming from a scheme that defrauded foreign investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Defendant recorded himself sexually abusing an approximately seven-year-old boy.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, September 5, the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit will hold a hearing to examine innovation in surface transportation. The subcommittee will receive testimony from non-federal partners on current developments relating to a variety of technologies such as autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and mobility on demand (MOD) technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Jonathan Jacob Ish, 37, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Ish to serve three years of supervised release, after his release from federal prison. Ish pleaded guilty to the charge on May 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Murder, Kidnapping, and Assault Indictments Against MS-13 Members also Unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RICHARD M. LACH, 32, of Richton Park, Illinois, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud state unemployment insurance programs in Connecticut and 37 other states.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management on Saturday, Sept. 1 will reopen sections of the Redding-area recreation trail network that were closed because of the Carr Fire. Some areas will remain closed until crews remove or mark hazards and complete fire suppression repairs.
