News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Antwan Miller to three years and six months in federal prison for theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft. He had pleaded guilty on October 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Defendant continued to cultivate marijuana after federal search warrant was executed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Stanley Olejniczak, 53, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: On June 6, 2018, Jordan P. Leggans, 31, of Tilden, Illinois, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Leggans previously pled guilty to a one-count second superseding...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
Release: Summary:USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is recognizing Japan as being free of classical swine fever and swine vesicular disease. APHIS made a risk evaluation available for public review and comment through a previous notice. No comments were received. View the final determination here.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, today made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region announced Thursday the selection of Don Portz as the San Joaquin River Restoration Program manager. Portz has been involved with the SJRRP since 2010 and has served as its lead fish biologist since 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Mexican national with nine prior deportations was released from federal custody today after a bail review hearing in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg sentenced David Dwight Reynolds, 30, of Glendale, Ariz., to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The Court also ordered him to pay nearly $2.2 million in restitution. Reynolds had previously pleaded guilty to embezzlement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A Mexican man who used a false identification document to obtain a job was convicted by a jury today after a one-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Mr. Speaker, it is outrageous that we are beginning this appropriations season by debating President Trump’s rescissions bill, which fails the American people, hurts children and families, and injects needless partisanship into Congress’ important appropriations work.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for calling today’s hearing on the 2018 Social Security Trustees Report. While Social Security is financially stable for the time being, it is clear we need a long-term solution.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Pennsylvania man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with a loaded gun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint on Wednesday, June 6, just two days after another individual was caught with a gun at the same airport. It marked the 10th firearm that TSA officers have caught at the airport so far this calendar year, tying the 10 that were caught during all 12 months of 2017-and we aren’t even half-way through 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s June 2018 Total Water Supply Available forecast for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will adequately satisfy senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the construction of a new septic system within the Buxton park housing area was signed on May 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Juan Pablo Zamora Gomez, 32, of Modesto, California, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Antwan Miller to three years and six months in federal prison for theft of government funds and aggravated identity theft. He had pleaded guilty on October 5, 2017.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: At the request of federal security partners, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR)§ 99.7 - “Special Security Instructions" - to address concerns about drone operations over national security sensitive facilities by establishing temporary Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) specific flight restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Louisiana has indicted TERRY MADISON, III, age 22, for the robbery of Walmart Money Center in Hammond, Louisiana, on April 14, 2018. If convicted, MADISON faces a maximum sentence of twenty years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Portrayed a Woman Online to Solicit Explicit Photos from Teen Boy.
