News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has pleaded guilty to one-count of tampering with consumer products. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a Boston-based heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston. Jose Antonio Lugo-Guerrero, aka Fernando Rivera-Rodriguez, 40, a Dominican national formerly residing in Mattapan, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Four were charged Tuesday for their roles in the Panamanian-based global law firm’s decades-long scheme to defraud the United States. This following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s El Dorado Task Force working...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Adam Daniel Young (27, Bradenton) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for using the internet to download images and videos depicting child sexual abuse. Young was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office and Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced that Salvatore...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BRIDGEORT, Calif. - Wildland fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office are planning winter pile-burning operations with inter-agency partners for south of Bridgeport, Mono County, when weather and air quality conditions permit. Pile-burning operations can begin as early as Thursday, December 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAQUAN PATTERSON-GREENE, 22, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted James Lorenzo Thomas, Jr., age 32, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, for three counts of armed commercial robbery, three counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury’s verdict was returned on Dec. 3, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM recently named Mark Gilbertson as its Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Euphrem Kios Dohou, age 50, a native and citizen of Benin, West Africa, was convicted on Nov. 29, 2018, after a two-day bench trial before United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, of hindering his removal from the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MIAMI - A program that helps shape future candidates for EM’s workforce recently inducted 10 Florida International University (FIU) students as the DOE Fellows Class of 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: In April 2018, the National Park Service (NPS) announced that as part of an ongoing effort to address aging park infrastructure and improve visitor experiences, entrance fees at 117 NPS sites across the United States would be increasing by $5.00. Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a Boston-based heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with importing and selling counterfeit apparel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NOEL PEREZ, 22, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Nov. 30, 2018, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Evan Watkins, age 30, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, to 10 years’ imprisonment on drug trafficking charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is lifting its fire restrictions on Friday, December 7, for approximately 650,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura counties, due to reduced fire conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office and Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced that Salvatore...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office reminds the public of annual winter closures in the Bald Ridge, Carter Mountain, Little Mountain and Twin Creek Trail areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Eric P. Krieg, age 46, of Munster, Indiana, plead guilty to knowingly making an unregistered destructive device, mailing a destructive device, malicious use of explosive materials, and mailing a threatening communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
