News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: In the race to build a computer that mimics the massive computational power of the human brain, researchers are increasingly turning to memristors, which can vary their electrical resistance based on the memory of past activity. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now unveiled the long-mysterious inner workings of these semiconductor elements, which can act like the short-term memory of nerve cells.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday filed a civil denaturalization complaint in the Northern District of Iowa against a 51-year old man who allegedly obtained his naturalized U.S. citizenship by fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has completed its analysis of Ormat Inc.’s proposal for an expansion to their McGinness Hills Geothermal Facility. This newest expansion is being referred to as ‘Phase III’ and will consist of access roads, a pipeline, a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Jordan L. Price, 28, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two members of a massive drug conspiracy have been ordered to significant terms in federal prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Julio Cesar Sala Stripling, 39, and Martin Lee Rodriguez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -United States Attorney Bill Powell has announced his Senior Leadership Team. Those appointed to the team bring a combined 109 years of service to the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District, and will assist Mr. Powell in the management of the Wheeling, Martinsburg, Clarksburg, and Elkins offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: The police chief of a village in Mahoning County was indicted on child pornography charges, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: A former Parma resident and a Cleveland man were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to embezzle more than $186,000, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. District Judge Marcia G. Cooke sentenced a Miami-area man to 12 months and one day in prison and three years’ supervised release for threatening to shoot members of a mosque in Miami Gardens, Florida, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired highway patrol trooper was charged Thursday with lying to the FBI during an investigation into illegal gambling in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Christopher Gerard Dickerson (39, Sanford) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, distribution and possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty on Oct. 23, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Robert William Simet made threats against Sen. Joni Ernst.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Douglas M. Marinos, 56, a licensed attorney, pled guilty today to one-count of willfully failing to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over to the United States taxes owed by his Allentown law firm, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The Criminal Information to which Marinos pled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for an armed bank robbery he committed while on parole for a state murder conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that the District of Maine collected $3,332,723.69 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017. Of this amount, $2,755,431.76 was collected in criminal actions and $577,291.93 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Arrests Bend Man on Child Pornography Charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Thomas Edward Mancha, a 61-year-old resident of Browning, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment, for the murder of his wife on New Year’s Day, 2017. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - A federal grand jury has indicted 104 individuals as a result of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gregory R. Lee, 53, of Columbus, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 262 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release and a $10,000 fine for production of child pornography.
