News from December 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to screen a record number of travelers during the 2018 Christmas and New Year holiday travel season, so travelers flying out of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area will have plenty of company when passing through the airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-A Bozeman man accused of trafficking methamphetamine he brought from Denver to Montana was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in federal prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Eleazar Sosa, 35, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Joseph F. Schaller, Commissioner of the New Rochelle Police Department (“NRPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA -U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MICHAEL KWAN, age 34, of Westwego, was sentenced Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018 to 70 months in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, Rep. Don Young, and Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy (all R-Alaska) today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for the oil and gas leasing program on the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Matthew McCollum, age 34, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2018, to 188 months’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release by Senior United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Two individuals, including a City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department employee, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced its latest funding opportunity designed to support early stage, transformative energy technologies. The “Solicitation on Topics Informing New Program Areas" funding opportunity enables ARPA-E to investigate potential new program areas while highlighting energy challenges of critical interest to American competitiveness and security.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Starting on Jan. 1, 2019, Tonto National Monument will increase entrance fees for visitors in order to fund important maintenance and improvement projects within the park. Entrance fees will increase to $10.00 per person from the current price of $7.00 per person, age 16 and over. Children 15 years old and younger are admitted for free.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Inland Empire man was sentenced this morning to 46 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to smuggle rifle scopes and other tactical gear to Syria in violation of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and sanctions imposed on Syria by the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Eric A. Zevely, 34, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Carlos Villa-Lozano, 30, and Paulina Silva Aguilar, 32, both of Fresno, charging them with aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a California Highway Patrol aircraft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Villa-Lozano was also charged separately with making false statements to an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today the seizure of an internet domain associated with DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against a Pennsylvania man who facilitated the computer attack platform. This case was brought as part of an FBI investigation that led to the seizure of 15 websites, resulting in criminal charges filed from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of Alaska and the Central District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Indictment Alleges Previously Convicted Offender Willfully Evaded.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. District Judge Rebecca G. Jennings has sentenced defendants of a health care fraud scheme that billed insurance companies for services never performed to years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on Trump Administration’s new policy of forcing those legally claiming asylum to remain in Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced David Harris Lavine, age 58, of Rockville, Maryland, today to three years in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for bank fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the financial institution, where he served...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Madison man who used the internet’s dark markets in an online drug trafficking conspiracy was sentenced on Wednesday, to more than a decade in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez and DEA Associate Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Remarks Regarding Indictment of Chinese Hackers.
