News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Dec. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in January 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 41-year-old Houston man is headed to prison after for trafficking children for commercial sex and attempting to do so during the 2012 Olympics, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew R. Howard, 23, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a child. The prison term will be followed by 25 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Jason Bryon Redheart, 60, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in federal prison for a January 2018 assault with a dangerous weapon which happened in Lapwai, Idaho, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Redheart to serve three years supervised release after he is finished serving his prison term. Redheart was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 17, 2018, United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo sentenced Niskauri DeJesus-Toribio, age 21, who resided in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to a time-served sentence of one day and two years of supervised release for stealing mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jeffrey Johnson, 58, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. The defendant pled guilty on May 24, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced KENNETH TERRELL ROBERTSON, a/k/a “Terrell" and “K-Lo," age 40, of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to 108 months in federal prison following his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Vinton Man Ordered Multiple Shipments of Drugs, Including a Shipment of More than a Kilogram of Very Pure Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County woman who used her position at a Hawthorne-based credit union to secretly open more than 25 fraudulent lines of credit for her online boyfriend, extending more than $2.7 million in credit to him, has been found guilty of 15 federal charges, including fraud and conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has issued the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) second Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs for Fiscal Year 2019. The Phase I Release 2 FOA, with approximately $37 million in available funding, will provide funding for innovations that address multiple research and development programs throughout DOE.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Dec. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Octavius Tyrone Peace on Dec. 14, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 24 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for the for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Special Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration this morning arrested an Orange County doctor on federal charges that allege he illegally distributed opioid and other powerful narcotics by writing prescriptions for “patients" without medical examinations and to at least five...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: LONE PINE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office is reducing the nightly camping fee at the Tuttle Creek Campground from $8 per night to $5 per night starting Friday, December 21. The campground fee will return to the standard $8 per night rate in April 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration expects a high volume of flyers this upcoming holiday travel period. Between Dec. 19 and Jan. 5, TSA estimates 41 million passengers will travel through security screening checkpoints nationwide, an increase of 6 percent from 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the report released by the Trump Administration’s school safety commission. After the Parkland shooting, Senator Murray voiced concerns that the Commission, led by Secretary DeVos, would be nothing more than a distraction and delay from addressing meaningful gun safety measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Trenton Farnsworth, of Weston, West Virginia, has admitted to methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Rose Mathe Jean Louis, age 50, and a citizen of Haiti, was sentenced today to time served (61 days in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
