News from December 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Victim Was Repeatedly Slashed, Left for Dead.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Aliquippa, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: A Michigan woman was indicted for helping a man avoid registering as a sex offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Richmond’s Central Virginia Violent Crimes Task Force Investigating 2016 Richmond Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, and Willimantic Police Chief Roberto Rosado today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a superseding indictment yesterday charging MOHAMMADREZA KAMALI, also known as “Reza," 18, of Willimantic, with several firearms offenses.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On December 7, 2018, Raymond Wayne Eugene Hall, age 33, was sentenced on federal child pornography charges to 40 years in federal prison and a life term of supervised release in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today announced it will hold a meeting of the Southwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC), demonstrating that partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands. The public is welcome to attend the meeting which will occur on Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, at the Montrose Public Lands Center, 2465 S. Townsend Ave., from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Oliver Rocher (33, Fort Myers) to 15 years and 10 months in federal prison for firearms and drug-related offenses. The court also ordered Rocher to forfeit $4,002 in drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Washington man who admitted distributing pound quantities of methamphetamine primarily in the Great Falls area was sentenced on Dec. 12 to 90 months in federal prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after a U.S. District Court Judge struck down the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...

By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
Release: During one of multiple stops on his first official visit to Spain, FAS Administrator Ken Isley joined Spanish importers and the U.S. Grains Council at the Port of Tarragona to learn about opportunities for U.S. sorghum in the country. With Spain’s highly variable grain yields and large livestock sector, it relies on imports to meet domestic feed demand.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Everette Reel, 46, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was sentenced today to five years in prison on charges stemming from an investigation into a narcotics conspiracy involving eight individuals in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that RICHARD GREEN age 29, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty to six counts of federal firearms and narcotics charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The National Park Service (NPS) seeks public input on proposals to construct and operate telecommunications infrastructure on Rogers Peak, located in Death Valley National Park’s Panamint Mountains.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS--Billings resident Gregory Adam Kilwein, 50, was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for conviction in a drug investigation in which agents found four pounds of methamphetamine in his apartment, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: OYSTER BAY, NY -- Sagamore Hill National Historic Site is proud to announce a new museum exhibit for 2019, “Theodore Roosevelt, A Man for the Modern World." The exhibit will celebrate the presidency and legacy of Theodore Roosevelt, who is often considered the first modern president. TR led the nation...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that a former treasurer of the Crow Creek District Business Committee was sentenced in federal court on Dec. 13, 2018, in Pierre, South Dakota. Lana Steele, former treasurer of the Crow Creek District Business Committee, was sentenced for Embezzlement and Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A native and citizen of India, most recently from Iowa, was sentenced today to four years in prison for an investment fraud scheme and impersonating an employee of the Department of Homeland Security selling genuine United States visas as part of another fraud scheme.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Step into the mind of a civil engineer proposing drainage control features within a watershed ….

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions for two Belleair Beach scientists, Mahmoud Aldissi (a/k/a Matt) and his wife Anastassia Bogomolova (a/k/a Anastasia), for conspiracy to commit...