News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in a 14-count federal indictment with conspiring to distribute carfentanil, fentanyl and heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore is pleased to announce the opportunity for interested parties to submit proposals to lease Oregon Inlet Marina (currently operated as Oregon Inlet Fishing Center).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RANDY M. KILEY, SR. (“KILEY"), age 64, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, former Sergeant Major in the Louisiana Army National Guard, pled guilty today to one count of making a false statement to the Louisiana Army National Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former executive of a Springfield, Missouri charity, who was also an Arkansas lobbyist, pleaded guilty in federal court today to bribing Arkansas elected officials in a multi-million-dollar scheme, and then along with other charity executives, embezzling millions of dollars from the Springfield health care organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Jonathan Stefan Vanderhorst, age 23, Jim Tracy Miller, age 28, and Demetrius Altman, age 39, all of Tabor City, N.C., have pled guilty in federal court in Florence South Carolina, before United States District Judge Brian...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Pethrod Dunnigan, 40, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more or cocaine, and money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to serve 156 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Kevin Livsey has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for committing drug trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: * On the morning of June 6, 59-year-old Kim Hancock of Santa Rosa, California, was gored by a bull bison at Fountain Paint Pot in the Lower Geyser Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was charged in a 14-count federal indictment with conspiring to distribute carfentanil, fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - One resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of armed bank robbery and Hobbs Act Robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Covington, Ky. - Ronald Barnett Hill, 49, of Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison by United States District Judge David Bunning for embezzling $248,000 from his wife’s employee benefit plan.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced $252,600 in grants for projects to develop or adapt techniques that preserve historical sites and cultural heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced DEMITORIS “Big Tachi" ALEXANDER, age 52, of Gonzales, to life in prison. The defendant was convicted on all charges related to his role as the leader of a large-scale and violent drug trafficking organization following a six-day jury trial in March. ALEXANDER was also ordered to forfeit $6,600,000 in proceeds from illegal drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Robert Christiansen, age 57, of San Antonio, Texas, plead guilty after one day of trial in federal court in Columbia, to using an interstate facility to induce a minor to engage in sexual activity and transporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson sentenced James Anthony Brown Jr., a former employee of the Richland County Recreation Commission, to 135 months of incarceration as a result of his conviction for Possessing with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 5, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a ten-count superseding indictment against Marcus Hutchins, also known as “Malwaretech," and “irp@jabber.se," related to creating and distributing the Kronos banking Trojan and UPAS Kit malware.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: On June 7, 2018, Bruce J. Walker, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE), testified before the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Energy Subcommittee during a hearing on “The Electric Grid of the Future.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of embezzlement by a bank employee, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On June 6, 2018, United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced David Albert Hunter, a/k/a Lil Dave, a/k/a Dave, age 31, of Baltimore, Maryland to 321 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Robert Bryan Mansfield, age 61, of Ladson, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. United States District Judge David C. Norton, of Charleston, sentenced Mansfield to 240 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release.
