News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: MOOSE, WY- The National Park Service has implemented an emergency closure in the Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point areas on the west side of Jenny Lake for human safety. Some recently expanding cracks and fissures have been identified in a large rock buttress above the Hidden Falls viewing area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The leader of a narcotics distribution ring that imported a powerful fentanyl analogue from China and produced hundreds of thousands of opioid pills that were distributed in bulk across the nation was sentenced yesterday to 320 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT DIAZ, a/k/a “Facey," a/k/a “Face," was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to 120 months in prison for distributing heroin and other narcotics, including...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected five additional projects to receive approximately $11.3 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development. These projects are supported through the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0001792, Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SCOTT McKINNEY, a former flight attendant, pled guilty today to conspiring both to violate airport security requirements and to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man was cited by airport police at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) today (July 10) after a Transportation Security Administration officer spotted a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag at one of the airport checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Wesley Keith Smith, 35, of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 15 years in prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it and for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House today passed the Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2018 (H.R. 5626), which helps American families seeking to adopt children overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported. Jose Antonio Alarcon-Mazariegos, 44, a Guatemalan national formerly residing in Cambridge, was sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Defendant Told Victim No One Would Believe Her; He Was Arrested After She Disclosed the Abuse.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (CTV), announced a new agreement to advance solutions to produced water issues. Under the Cooperation Agreement, DOE will provide technical expertise to CTV on the Chevron Tech Challenge for Produced Water, which seeks to develop cost-effective produced water management solutions applicable to U.S. oil and gas extraction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded the Trump Administration on Tuesday after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it would rein in potential abuses of Medicaid payments. Sen. Johnson had this to say following the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Craig Carpenito, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced an Edison, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 140 kilograms of narcotics in New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Coffeyville woman pleaded guilty to stealing $150,000 from a customer at a bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Alma Ramirez (age 40) of Green Bay appeared in federal court in Green Bay to answer charges brought against her in a 29-count indictment. Specifically, Ms. Ramirez is charged with 5 counts of wire fraud, 5 counts of aggravated identity theft, and 19 counts of assisting in the filing of false federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A reserve deputy sheriff for Christian County, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Edison, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 140 kilograms of narcotics in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Brandon Shane Polston, age 32, of Lancaster, plead guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2), and 924(e), and to possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation, with the first eight months to be served on home detention with electronic monitoring, on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
