News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Perkins, age 36, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the illegal possession of a machine gun with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Deville man was sentenced Tuesday to two years and three months in prison for possessing a silencer that had not been registered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on a Bank Robbery in Aventura, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Indianapolis-United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today that the former Fire Chief of Ingalls, Indiana has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child. Brian Cushman, 29, Ingalls, had his initial appearance in federal court last week and was released on GPS monitoring today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, age 44, a Guatemalan citizen, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge D. Gordon Bryant, Jr., to bank robbery through the threatened use of a pipe bomb, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - On May 14, biologists with the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Reclamation released endangered humpback chub, an endangered fish species endemic to the Colorado River basin, into Bright Angel Creek - following six years of successful removal of nonnative trout.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Two Nigerian nationals who participated in a large-scale bank fraud and counterfeit passport scheme, with an intended loss of more than $1.2 million dollars, were sentenced today to 13 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Peter C. Fitzhugh.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RYAN SCOTT, age 40, of Kenner, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one count of federal arson and one count of weapon violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Judge Sentences Nigerian National to 15 Months in Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Olympic National Park will host an exciting opportunity for cyclists to “Ride the Hurricane" between 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. on Sunday, August 5.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: The smells of campfires and gun smoke will once again fill the air on Marye’s Heights at the Fredericksburg battlefield on Labor Day weekend. Union soldiers will be on hand to show the weapons, uniforms, and equipment carried 155 years ago. Watch as troops march in formation and hear about the fighting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A federal jury in St. Louis returned a verdict today in favor of a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (ATF) agent who was accused of using excessive force in shooting into a vehicle during an undercover operation in 2012. Myron Pollard of St. Louis was killed in the incident and his mother was seeking $6 million in damages from the agent and the United States. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Robert A. Brady (D-PA), Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Members of the House Committees on Homeland Security, House Administration, Oversight & Government Reform, and the Judiciary, released the below statement following...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
Release: ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) yesterday, July 26, when they detected a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag. The Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, resident was stopped at the checkpoint with the gun, which was loaded with nine bullets, including one in the chamber.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Washington - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding this week’s European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on newer mutagenesis methods, otherwise known as genome editing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Keith Phillips, 57, of Lewiston, Maine, was charged by indictment in U.S. District Court with bank robbery.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Earlier this week, House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released a legislative discussion draft for an infrastructure package designed to renew the conversation about how best to meet the challenges of building a 21st century infrastructure for the Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking the Public’s Assistance with a Bank Robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting they conduct a retrospective review of Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) mergers, and how these mergers have affected prices for consumers.