News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation issued the final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed construction and operation of three wells to pump water from the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer into Falls Irrigation District’s existing canal distribution system.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) nationally and locally expects to screen a record number of travelers during the 2018 Christmas and New Year holiday travel season. Nationwide, TSA projects it will screen 6 percent more travelers compared to this same period last year. Locally, TSA at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) expects the increase over last year’s levels to be around 6 percent as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces an the return of an indictment charging Edwin Tyron Hill, a/k/a “Z," (47, Holiday), and William Gaston (31, Port Richey) with conspiring to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and 400 grams or more of fentanyl, and distribution of heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that an Abbeville man was sentenced last week to 63 months in prison for accepting marijuana packages from California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A father and son are among 18 individuals facing criminal charges as part of a federal investigation into cocaine trafficking in the Chicago area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Saudi Citizen Admits to Visa Fraud and Concealing Attendance at Al Qaeda Training Camp.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after a Texas court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Defendants are facing a forfeiture allegation of $560,640.93.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Grady Jefferson, 46, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to five years on prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in the Washington, D.C. area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that JOSEPH R. ALEXANDER, age 60 of Gretna, Louisiana pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 to one count of a sixteen count indictment returned December 7, 2017. The government agreed to dismiss the remaining fifteen counts at sentencing, which was set for April 3, 2019 before Judge Sarah S. Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Eric Baird, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a Florida-based package consolidation and shipping service, has pleaded guilty to one count of felony smuggling and admitted to 166 administrative violations of U.S. export control laws as part of a global settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Juan Valdez, 51, of Milton, Mass., identified in court as the “boss of bosses" of a large scale international drug trafficking operation that repeatedly imported multiple kilograms of heroin and cocaine from Mexico that was distributed to mid-level and street dealers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Osceola, Mo., woman has been convicted by a trial jury of stealing $47,340 in Social Security benefits.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after a Texas court ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man who possessed and used over 500 fraudulent credit and debit cards throughout the Las Vegas Valley was sentenced Thursday to 60 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney’s Office Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - An Ozark, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to a $2.4 million wire fraud scheme in which he falsely claimed that he had purchased thousands of head of cattle under a contract with a Texas company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Adam Robert Miller, age 29, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography. Miller also took sexually explicit images...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Former Baltimore City Department of Transportation Supervisor Previously Sentenced to Federal Prison for His Role in the Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Nathan Thomas Trujillo, 41, admitted on Dec. 11 in federal court to drug trafficking and firearms charges in a conspiracy that brought methamphetamine from Denver, Colo., to the community, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
