News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Fernandino Rodriguez-Colon, age 39, of York, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 13, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a markup for Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson sentenced Leandre Budden, a/k/a “Bubba," age 35, to 235 months of incarceration as a result of his conviction for Possession of Firearms and Ammunition by a Convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: (MIAMI) - Colombian drug kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño was sentenced yesterday to 31 years in prison for importing multi-ton quantities of cocaine into the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert C. Ard, of Elkins, West Virginia, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges related to two homemade explosive devices found in his home, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management’s Office of Law Enforcement is asking for the public’s help in locating a stolen mammoth tusk.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today continued its two-week long consideration of dozens of bills to combat the opioid crisis. Passing the House today were 18 additional bills, including 12 from the Energy and Commerce Committee or that included provisions within the committee’s jurisdiction.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ryan Mershon, age 40, of Ballston Spa, New York, was sentenced today to 71 months in prison, to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit money laundering and distribute marijuana.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21 million for new projects to advance solar-thermal desalination technologies. These 14 projects are focused on reducing the cost of solar-thermal desalination and helping the technology to reach new markets, including to areas that are not connected to the electric grid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: St. Louis -Scott Walsh, 46, of Kirksville, was taken into federal custody today on an Indictment charging him with enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Specifically, it is alleged Walsh contacted a minor online and caused him to produce an obscene video of himself and share it with...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a markup for Thursday, June 21, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Arizona Man Sentenced to Prison for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Against Emergency Communications System and Other Municipal Websites.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Almost 40 years after Chiricahua National Monument Ranger Paul Fugate went for a hike and vanished without a trace, the National Park Service (NPS) has raised its reward fund in the case to $60,000. Decades after initial leads in Fugate’s disappearance grew cold, new information has prompted NPS investigators and Cochise County (AZ) Sheriff Mark Dannels to renew their request for the public’s help in solving the 38-year-old mystery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communication and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced today a hearing for Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 1:15 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Discussion Draft: National Telecommunications and Information Administration Reauthorization Act of 2018."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Demar A. Brown, age 34, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Jashon C. Fields, age 33, of Atlanta, Georgia; and Kamar O. Beckles, age 33 of Teaneck, New Jersey, today on charges of conspiracy and interstate transportation of stolen property, related to a series of burglaries in Baltimore County, Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that oil and gas companies are locking up millions of acres of public lands, primarily across the Western United States, by holding onto mineral leases where no oil or gas are being extracted and no exploration is taking place.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RAZHDEN SHULAYA, a vor v zakone or “thief-in-law," and AVTANDIL KHURTSIDZE, a boxing champion and SHULAYA’s enforcer, were found guilty of racketeering and related charges in connection with a sprawling and violent criminal enterprise operating in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and abroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
