News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Erick Alejandro Contreras, age 20, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 223 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Real, 56, a federally licensed firearms dealer in Espanola, N.M. was sentenced Monday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, a $10,000 fine, and 50 hours of community service for illegally selling firearms, falsifying records, and making false statements to law enforcement agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lorene Deanda, 59, of Ceres, was arrested today on an indictment charging her with 10 counts of mail fraud and one count of conversion of Social Security benefit funds, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today. Deanda was charged by federal grand jury on December 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Juice," 48, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Joshua Smith, 31, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) for a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) focused on recovering rare earth elements (REE) and critical materials (CM) from domestic coal resources, using novel and conventional extraction, separation, and recovery processes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: Sue Jennings, Wildlife Biologist at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore), retires on Dec. 29, 2018 after 30 years with the National Park Service (NPS) - nearly 10 of them at the National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder and Discharge of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: In large and small communities across the country, emergency responders, commercial infrastructure building owners and operators have a common objective: public safety. As smart phones, devices, and sensors evolve to allow for more interconnectivity, communities are becoming more resilient, allowing...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Senate unanimously passed legislation authored by Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawai‘i, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, that will expand the AMBER Alert system to include all U.S. territories. The national AMBER Alert network distributes alerts on highway billboards, TVs, radio, and cellular phones to mobilize the public when a child is missing or abducted. It has helped rescue more than 900 children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A former employee pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling nearly $150,000 from Eldon Drug Company in Eldon, Mo.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - One of the largest cleanup challenges in the world is the 580-square-mile Hanford Site. Four decades of nuclear energy production, spanning World War II through the Cold War, left an array of chemicals in soil and groundwater across the site.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM awarded the Office of River Protection (ORP) tank operations contractor for the fiscal year from Oct. 1, 2017 through Sept. 30, 2018, according to a recently released scorecard.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: A 20-year Costco employee was sentenced Dec. 17, 2018, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to one year in prison for wire fraud in connection with her five-year scheme to steal nearly $290,000 from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. ROBIN G. CLINE, 54, of Puyallup, Washington, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with embezzling over $18,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A Nigerian national was charged in court documents unsealed today for his role as the alleged ringleader of an international advance-fee scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced SHARON DARMINA RESPUS, 31, of Burgaw to 100 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Isaiah Moore-Brown, age 29, of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 101 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release on Dec. 17, 2018, by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley, for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine base, and for possessing firearms in furtherance of his narcotics trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former resident of Williamsburg was sentenced today to over 5 years in prison for stealing approximately $514,000 from a Williamsburg ophthalmologist and filing false tax returns that concealed the stolen funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Dec. 18, 2018, Robert Earl Rose, 35, of Lincoln, was sentenced to 15 years and eight months (188 months) in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Rose will serve five years on supervised release.
