News from June 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BOISE- Today, the National Park Service (NPS) issued the results of an independent review and investigation of the fire that burned the dormitory of the Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park in August 2017. The review outlines the origins and growth of the Sprague fire over the course of three weeks...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: KING SALMON, Alaska-On 6/20/18, Katmai National Park was notified of a person missing after a rafting incident on American Creek. The individual, a 72-year old man, was last seen floating on the creek on the afternoon of 6/19 when the raft he was in flipped over. Three people were in the raft when it...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - George Grice, 32, of St. Louis, Missouri was sentenced to 46 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy released the following statement after the Office of Management and Budget released their government reorganization plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that James Franklin Hill, 55, of South Orange, New Jersey, was charged today by indictment with one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme that involved a classic “bait-and-switch" scam with a set of 24 Canadian Gold Maple Leaf coins.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that, ANTOINE DEWAYNE MYLES a/k/a “Twan", 42, of Dunn, North Carolina, LEMONT JERRONE WEBB, 44, of Godwin, North Carolina, and HARRY MYLES, SR., 63, also of Dunn, were sentenced by United...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Brady Announces Full Committee Markup. Committee to Consider Bills from the Subcommittees on Tax Policy, Health, Social Security, and Oversight. June 19, 2018 - Markup - Press Releases. What: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup. Where: 1100 Longworth House Office Building. When: Thursday, June 21,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Emmanuel Feaster, 22, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted by a federal jury of being a felon in possession of a loaded handgun, was sentenced to 60 months in jail by Chief Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that six previously deported aliens were indicted separately on June 20, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, FBI agents arrested 54-year-old Joseph Vasquez, a principal of San Antonio Cash Network, for allegedly stealing over $145,000 from his company’s ATMs, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a South Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun onboard a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) checkpoint.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: Today is National Asking Saves Kids Day or National ASK Day - a day to promote gun safety and remind parents and caregivers of the critical importance of safely storing firearms, particularly to protect students, children, and young people from gun-related injuries and deaths resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal grand jury has charged GERMAINE COULTER, SR., 45, and ELIZABETH ANDRADE, 35, both of Oklahoma City, with child sex trafficking and conspiracy to sex traffic a child, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Chesapeake woman was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for embezzling over $1.1 million from a Hampton business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - William Laurence Stanley, 54, of Dallas, Texas, a self-proclaimed black hat search engine optimizer and reputation manager was sentenced June 12, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve 97 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $5,605,226 in restitution, following a five-day trial in April 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is preparing for another record-breaking travel season this summer, as 243 million passengers and crew are projected to come through security checkpoints nationwide between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: DALLAS- Following a two-day trial, a federal jury convicted Eric Gerard McGinnis, 42, of Grand Prairie, Texas, of multiple firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 11, 2018, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Clifford See Walker, age 27, Solen, ND, on charges of Aggravated Sexual Assault by Use of Force. Judge Hovland sentenced See Walker to serve 19 years, 7 months in federal prison, with time served; 15 years supervised release; and $100 special Assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Baldinger, 51, of Minnesota, and a transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America (PTS), appeared in federal court today in Duluth, Minn., after a federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., indicted him on charges related to his sexual assaults of a female...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Jawayne Watkins, 29, aka Weezy, and Anika Williams, 42, both of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, and 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl...
