News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Sacramento, Calif - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Donnie Joe Phillips, 65, of Concord, to 25 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge Chris Nielsen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Come hike with us as we cross the Pecos River to explore the historic apple orchards, rugged ranch roads, and Old Colonias Bridge on the rarely seen eastern side of Pecos National Historical Park. Superintendent Karl Cordova will lead this two-mile hike through moderately difficult terrain...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The park will begin a significant road grading and gravel replacement project on the Bowman Lake Road beginning July 17. The work will fix potholes and drainage on roadways and in ditches, and improve the overall road surface.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Dear Chairman Goodlatte and Chairman Gowdy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Chase Daniel Zerba, age 20, from Coggon, Iowa, Tyler Michael Clemens, age 23, from Alburnett, Iowa, and Cameron Lee Klouda, age 21, from Coggon, Iowa, have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and using, carrying, brandishing, and discharging a firearm during a drug...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The Zion- Mount Carmel Highway remains closed as trail crews work to remove debris from mudslides following intense rain Wednesday night. The Zion- Mount Carmel Highway connects Route 9 between Springdale and Kanab. Visitors will need to detour using either Route 59/389 to the south or Route 14 to the north.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Perfecto Lopez-Olivas, 44, a Mexican national, with a methamphetamine trafficking offense arising out of the seizure of 26 pounds of methamphetamine at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in southern New Mexico on July 7, 2018. Lopez-Olivas was remanded into custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Benjamin Glassman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, today announced Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a new program that seeks to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas and to identify wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former bank employee was indicted today in federal court in Worcester in connection with embezzling money from client accounts held by the bank by which she was employed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division hosted a roundtable today for community organizations to discuss the problem of sexual harassment in housing, U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced. More than 50 community...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Bryshun Genard Furlow, age 34, of Lexington, was sentenced in federal court to 180 months (15 years) imprisonment with 6 years of supervised release to follow. Furlow plead guilty in April to possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph Hamilton, 30, has pleaded guilty to federal charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: SDWV 1 of 10 Sites Selected in the Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dennis Bernhard, 56, of Derby, N.Y., who was convicted of bribery, was sentenced to time served, and one year supervised release, to include three months home confinement by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Tina Smith (D-MN), held a press conference with experts and activists from Planned Parenthood, Physicians for Reproductive Health, and NARAL to speak about their opposition...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced today that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) for the United States Department of Justice has concluded an inquiry into the pretrial diversion practices of the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that a Philadelphia man was charged by indictment today with 16 counts of child sex offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - William H. Dority, 56, of South Kingstown, was sentenced on Wednesday to time served plus seven days for robbing a Narragansett bank of $4,635 in November 2017. Dority has been detained since his arrest on Nov. 28, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), member of the HELP Committee, and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA7), announced a bipartisan, bicameral reintroduction of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Saferia Johnson, age 34, formerly of Valdosta, Georgia; Leo McGill, age 51, of Valdosta, Georgia; and Detrone Middleton, age 38, of Douglas, Georgia, were sentenced on July 11, 2018, by the Honorable...
