News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Arrested in Albuquerque Bank Robbery; Driver Sought.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Residents of the Norfolk area will be able to apply to the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside the Norfolk International Airport terminal during the week of March 19 - 23, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" TSA Pre✓® application center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, 37, formerly of Windsor, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with one count of enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. John Weathers, 32, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the West Virginia State Police Violent Crime and Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANDREW CUNNINGHAM, 37, formerly of Windsor, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with one count of enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: With warming temperatures in February, the Bureau of Reclamation has begun the spring drawdown at Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. As water levels drop, the visiting public is reminded to check lake levels before launching their boats to make sure that their preferred boat launch is still accessible when they return at the end of their trip.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Preston Pope, age 28, and Jeron Morris, age 25, both of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced today by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp for their involvement in two Omaha robberies. Pope received a sentence of 62 years, 3 months of imprisonment to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: Newark FBI Special Agent in Charge Announces Retirement.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: This Friday, March 2, park rangers at Gettysburg National Military Park will participate in a day-long observation of the National Education Association’s #ReadAcrossAmerica Day. In addition to sharing their #shelfies with their favorite childhood book, the Park Ranger staff will be reading three Civil...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Sea World Management & Trading Inc. and Edmon Fajardo were convicted today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil and garbage from an oil tanker that was operating off the coast of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Marco A. Garcia, 31, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann on his plea of guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN FERRAIOLI, 41, of Sayville, N.Y., waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a conspiracy charge stemming from an investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: Former Homeland Security Investigations Confidential Informant Miguel Rodriguez-Sierra was sentenced today by United States District Judge Darrin P. Gayles for obstructing justice by attempting to sell cooperation to a federal inmate to allow that inmate to obtain an unwarranted sentencing reduction...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: The women and men of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) observe African American History Month throughout February to celebrate the achievements of their fellow citizens and the vital parts they have played in the history of the United States. The commemorative month is now considered the nation’s oldest organized historic celebration, and ICE honors the important contributions to the agency by African-Americans since its earliest iterations.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Motorists can expect River Road within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to be closed on several evenings over the next few weeks to protect breeding amphibians. The closures are contingent on the weather and may come earlier than usual this season, as the region has experienced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: John S. Adams Named Executive Assistant Director for the Information and Technology Branch.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: Washington -Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 30 members to serve three-year terms on the National Potato Promotion Board beginning March 1, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) drives a wide range of research and development (R&D) initiatives and steers the resulting innovative solutions into use by the intended end-user.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bryant Lamar Monie, 37, of Dayton, Ohio, was sentenced by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, on Friday, to 20 years in federal prison, for being an Armed Career Criminal and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2018
News Release: A decade before an iceberg shattered the hull plates of the Titanic and half a century before a plague of brittle fractures started sinking Liberty ships during World War II, scientists in the United States and France had devised a novel, and strikingly simple, method for measuring the way metal reacts to impact.
