News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the convictions of nine individuals charged in connection with an extensive federal, state, and local investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at a drug trafficking network based in Ascension...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: A former federal grand juror pled guilty today to obstruction of justice.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Yellowstone Forever is providing $5.9 million to fund 53 priority projects in Yellowstone National Park including the wolf program, trailhead information displays, and black bear research.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the expected finalization of a new Trump Administration rule to further sabotage patients’ health care. The vast majority...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: FBI's Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Online Sale Frauds.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Dear Chairmen Frelinghuysen, Culberson, Cole, and Yoder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Travis Jerome Robinson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years incarceration for possessing a firearm during a drug crime, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Leaman George Crews, III, 44, of St. James, Missouri, surrendered this morning in federal court to an Indictment charging him with five counts of wire fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud the company he worked for - Brewer Science Incorporated (BSI), Rolla, Missouri.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on reports that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council later today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually abusing a child and taking sexually explicit photographs of his victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Robert Allan Jones Named Special Agent in Charge of the Pittsburgh Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to leading a conspiracy that distributed at least a kilogram of heroin in the Springfield area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 48-year-old Edward Eugene Lowe, Jr., to 40 years in federal prison on child pornography charges, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Managing nuisance wildlife on EM’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant site is part of Kyle Gore’s job, but he never expected to be part of an animal rescue.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska today filed its notice of intent to seek the death penalty against John Pearl Smith II, 32, of Palmer, for the murders of Wasilla residents Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi on June 5, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: SALEM, Ohio - Special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) late Tuesday executed a criminal search warrant at Fresh Mark in Salem, Ohio, in addition to federal document search warrants at three other Fresh Mark locations in Northern Ohio. During the search warrant execution, authorities identified 146 Fresh Mark employees working at the Salem meat processor who were subject to arrest for immigration violations.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - In the past 10 years, EM and the Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor have increased the effectiveness of groundwater cleanup and saved millions of dollars through passive, energy-efficient treatment technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Deadrick Lamar Tatum (aka “Toda"), age 26, of Texarkana, was sentenced yesterday, to 54 months in federal prison on one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief David Rosado today announced that an investigation into the gang-related trafficking of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ENRIQUE FAJARDO MARIN, 40, a citizen of Ecuador recently residing in Danbury, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of illegally reentering the U.S.
