News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOISE - A multi-faceted, large-scale Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation has resulted in the federal indictment of sixteen defendants on drug trafficking, fraud, money laundering and counterfeit goods trafficking charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. The indictments were issued last week by a federal grand jury sitting in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - James Atkinson, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to an armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rodney L. Roach, 38, Beloit, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 60 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and crack cocaine. Roach pleaded guilty to this charge on May 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kai Brockington, the former operator of a bogus charity, was sentenced to federal prison for defrauding multiple large companies that donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Strong City, Kansas - Come see the 13th annual quilt display at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve over the Labor Day Weekend, featuring beautiful red and white quilts on display in the historic limestone barn. If you have a red and white quilt you would like to display, call the preserve at 620-273-8494 (hit 0). Quilts are needed by August 29th and can be dropped off at the preserve between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. It’s not too late to participate.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: $315,000 fraud nearly bankrupted employer. PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh Minkler today announced that Erica Howard, 42, of Indianapolis, was sentenced in federal court for her role in a two-year scheme to siphon funds from her employer, a family-owned construction company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that after a ten-month joint investigation, FBI agents and CMPD officers arrested 11 individuals during an early morning round-up. Ten of those arrested face federal charges and one was arrested on state offenses. Two others currently in state custody have also been indicted federally, bringing the total number of those charged as part of this Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative to 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that former West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Menis E. Ketchum II, age 75, pled guilty to wire fraud. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the West Virginia Legislature’s Commission on Special Investigations, and the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division conducted the investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Federally managed lands within a portion of Noatak National Preserve and BLM Lands within the Squirrel River drainage are closed to caribou hunting by Non-Federally qualified users.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: The sentence rendered today is the longest received by a defendant for an unauthorized disclosure of national defense information to the media. It appropriately satisfies the need for both punishment and deterrence in light of the nature and seriousness of the offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
Release: DULLES, VA. - A Transportation Security Administration officer stopped a man from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) yesterday, Wednesday, August 22nd.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: RED BLUFF, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a free day of fishing for veterans and active duty military members from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Sacramento River Bend Outstanding Natural Area. Anglers will have access to two ponds stocked with largemouth bass, catfish and redear sunfish for a day of outdoor recreation on America’s public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Former Indiana Resident Charged With Providing and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kai Brockington, the former operator of a bogus charity, was sentenced to federal prison for defrauding multiple large companies that donated hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: The Defendant Sold Heroin that Resulted in an Overdose Death.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: George Riley now knows why it takes so long to shoot a movie.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released three wind energy market reports demonstrating that as wind installations continue across the country and offshore wind projects move beyond the planning process, technology costs and wind energy prices continue to fall. The reports cover three market sectors: land-based utility scale, distributed, and offshore wind.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Comprehensive drug investigation resulted in convictions of nearly a dozen defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia, PA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that John Leroy Gordon, 26, of Chester, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with one count of carjacking in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2119, and one count of brandishing, using, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in violation of title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c)(1)(A)(ii).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA-- On Aug. 23, 2018, Trevor J. Graves, age 23, a former University of Iowa student, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to four months in prison after pleading guilty to unauthorized access and damage to the University of Iowa college computer network...
