News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Alberto Mario Perez-Gutierrez a/k/a: Alexander Gomez and Luis Mercado, 46, of Brooklyn, NY, a Colombian national, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for trafficking more than 5 kilograms of heroin into Rhode Island from New York and for illegal reentry after removal from...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) sent letters to a sample of state hospital associations regarding the availability of Sexual Assault Forensic Exams (“SAFE kits").
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE - As part of Take Back North Carolina Initiative, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that several cocaine and heroin centered Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force Operations (OCDETF), as well as, violent crime enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Wednesday, June 20, 2018, Emmanuel Oluwatosin Kazeem, 35, of Bowie, Maryland and Nigeria, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for leading a vast conspiracy to steal identities and file fraudulent tax returns. He was ordered to pay more than $12 million in restitution and will be subject to deportation when released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Jason Edward Barber, 31, a resident of Thomaston and Uniontown, Alabama, to 56 months imprisonment for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced four bills to the full committee that address key challenges facing America’s nuclear energy industry.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today made the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass H.R.2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways and the Shannon County Museum will host a Celebration of the River Community at Round Spring on Sunday, July 1, at the picnic pavilion located next to the spring branch. Families with a connection to the Round Spring community are invited to bring family...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 84 scientists from across the nation – including 30 from DOE’s national laboratories and 54 from U.S. universities – to receive significant funding for research as part of the DOE Office of Science’s Early Career Research Program. The effort, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Decatur man involved in a kidnapping and child sex-trafficking plot to 30 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore today announced a five-count federal indictment charging MICHAEL HARI, 47, MICHAEL MCWHORTER, 29, and JOE MORRIS, 23, with federal civil rights and hate crime violations, and using a destructive device in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM MARRERO-BENITEZ, 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 45 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will implement fire restrictions for public lands managed by its Arcata and Ukiah field offices in Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Yolo, Colusa, Glenn and Solano counties, beginning Thursday, June 28. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today requesting an immediate audit of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to track and reunite children that were separated from their families because of the Trump Administration’s “zero-tolerance" immigration policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: HELENA - Mohammad Asif Waziri, a 47-year-old Pakistani citizen, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to interstate stalking on April 4, 2018. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles C. Lovell handed down the sentence. The defendant was also ordered to pay $900.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An executive of a California-based biopharmaceutical company was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trading on insider information and profiting nearly $1 million.
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 Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The National Park Service invites comments from the public on a proposal to build a replacement bridge over the Lewis River in Yellowstone National Park. The new bridge would be located directly east of the existing bridge on the park’s South Entrance Road between the South Entrance and Grant Village. In this proposal, the South Entrance Road would remain open for public travel during construction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore today announced a five-count federal indictment charging MICHAEL HARI, 47, MICHAEL MCWHORTER, 29, and JOE MORRIS, 23, with federal civil rights and hate crime violations, and using a destructive device in connection...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - The rising water of the Missouri River has caused the closure of two campgrounds in the Upper Missouri River Breaks area.
