News from July 2018
By Commerce News Now | Jul 2, 2018
The US Commerce Department published a four page rule on July 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
Release: Christopher Robinson is a career Foreign Service Officer with over 23 years of experience as a diplomat. He currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Contact: Aly Baltrus. Springdale, UT- A rockfall came down on Hidden Canyon Trail late Monday afternoon, July 2, 2018. No one was injured. The rockfall occurred in the chains section, covering approximately 45 feet of trail in sand. Hidden Canyon Trail will remain closed until the trail and the chains...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Tjader, 44, Maple, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 84 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Tjader pleaded guilty to this charge on March 20, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Ukiah Field Office, Hispanic Access Foundation and partners invite the public to come out and celebrate Latino Conservation Week, from July 14-21.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts, aka Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, aka Salah ad-Deen Osama Waleed, 48, of Maple Heights, Ohio, was charged with one count of attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Pitts was arrested Sunday by members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - Feral hogs have an estimated population of between four and five million across the United States and are responsible for millions of dollars in damage each year to agriculture and other property. It is estimated that feral hogs are now in every county in Arkansas. The Arkansas Feral...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Washington - On June 5, 2018, the United States Department of Agriculture and Robert Rawls (Rawls), Brookhaven, Mississippi, settled a complaint filed against Rawls for suspected violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Terms of the settlement are set forth in a consent decision in which Rawls...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE -Latwon Ford, age 25, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa L. Springmann, for two counts of obstructing and interfering with interstate commerce by robbery and for brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Melinda Ray McCardle, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years probation for making a false statement, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Aubrey Maurice Jordan, 26, Monroe L. Hughes, III a/k/a "Roe," 39, and Cortez Lakeith Byrd a/k/a Byrd, 26, all of Meridian, were recently indicted and charged with witness tampering resulting in death, drug trafficking and conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge, J. Derryle Smith, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Acting Special Agent in Charge Maxwell D. Marker of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, New Mexico State Police (NMSP) Chief Pete Kassetas, San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen, and Director Kevin Burns of the HIDTA Region II Narcotics Task Force announced today that a NMSP officer has been arrested and is charged with violating the federal drug laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: BALTIMORE, Md. - A federal grand jury has returned a third superseding indictment charging twenty-four alleged members and associates of the gang MS-13. The indictment was returned on June 26, 2018 and unsealed yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On June 28, 2018, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Mubarek Alnajar, 28; Yousef Nazem Alnajar, 24; Nazem Ahmed Alnajar, 46; and Bandar Gamal Saleh Alnaggar, 39, all of Bakersfield, charging them with conspiring to distribute synthetic narcotics, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Nelson Gonzalez Lived Under an Alias to Avoid Detection by Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Margaret M. Tobin, 46, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan W. Feldman to possession of an unlawful identification document of the United States. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant is latest to be sentenced out of nearly two dozen defendants after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Bolivian national pleaded guilty today to obtaining his naturalized citizenship through fraud by failing to disclose his arrest and other criminal conduct committed prior to becoming a United States citizen.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, ARIZONA, July 2, 2018-The makeup of microbial species-the microbiome-in a honey bee queen's gut changes slowly as she ages, while a worker bee's microbiome changes much more rapidly, according to a new study published by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, TN-Investigators are searching for clues in a downtown bank robbery last week. FBI Agents and Task Force Officers uncovered new video and photos of the man believed to have robbed the U.S. Bank on Market Street on June 28.
