News from June 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Boston - A Dominican national was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on Social Security fraud and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: OMAR GOMEZ-SALAZAR, 25, of San Luis Potosi, Mexico was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on June 4, 2018 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Gomez-Salazar was arrested in Platte County, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Demarius Hawkins, age 27, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 6, 2018, by a federal grand jury on firearms and drug trafficking charges.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week secured the passage of six land-related bills through the U.S. Senate, all of which had been favorably reported by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Included in the package was S. 2857, the National Nordic Museum Act, which was sponsored by Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash, and co-sponsored by Murkowski.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Little Sahara Recreation Area Visitor Center will close for the hot, summer months on June 23, 2018. While the Visitor Center is closed, the recreation area will remain open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office is seeking public comments on a proposal to amend the land management plan for 2,882 acres of public lands on the east side of the San Luis Valley and north of Highway 160 in the BLM-managed San Luis Resource Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: CAIRO - An Eritrean national in transit to his home country passed away Wednesday at a detention holding area in the Cairo International Airport, after an apparent suicide.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - As part of its programming to commemorate the World War I Centennial, Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) will host a free military memorabilia preservation workshop from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 30, 2018. The workshop will be held in the park theater.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today proudly announced his selection of Dr. Harlan Yu to serve as a member of the Federal Commission on Social Impact Partnerships. Yu is the Executive Director of Upturn, a non-profit organization that combines technology and policy expertise to address longstanding social inequities, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Charles Heard (aka “Cheese"), and Jaquain Young (aka “Loc"), were sentenced today to multiple terms of life in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex Tse and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentences were handed down by the Honorable William Orrick, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to one year of probation on her conviction for lying to federal agents, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: In partnership with the National Park Service, Eastern National would like to invite you to meet Janet Elizabeth Croon, editor of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860 - 1865. Croon will be available Saturday, June 16, 2018, from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center to meet with you and sign your copy of this highly anticipated release.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - According to court records unsealed today, four men from Carlisle, Kentucky were indicted on June 6, 2018, for engaging in crop insurance fraud and money laundering-related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men charged with multiple drug and weapons offenses were convicted today on all counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call “free energy," essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work. Without this available energy, a living organism would eventually die and a machine would lie idle.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY HARTSELL, also known as “Pop Off," 37, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a violent New Haven street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mark Buechler, 44, of Henrietta, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography, including child pornography involving prepubescent minors or minors less than 12 years old. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Defendant was caught with child pornography upon returning to the U.S. from Cambodia.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Deadline for grant proposals set for June 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a White River, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.