News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - According to court records unsealed today, a Paris, Ky. man was indicted on March 1, 2018, and charged with crop insurance fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering-related offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MARCH 13, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau will offer an embargo period next week for media to view the 2017 population estimates for counties, metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, and Puerto Rico municipios.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Firearms, Drugs, and Cash Seized by Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal criminal complaint charging MICHAEL MCWHORTER, 29, JOE MORRIS, 22, and MICHAEL B. HARI, 47, for using an explosive device to maliciously destroy and damage the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center (“DAF") in Bloomington, Minnesota. MCWHORTER...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the president announced the departure of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - This morning, FBI agents arrested four rural east central Illinois men on a criminal complaint that charges them with possession of a machine gun. The men arrested and charged are: Michael B. Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29; and, Ellis Mack, 18, all of Clarence, Ill., a rural community approximately 35 miles north of Champaign-Urbana.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Deep aquifer monitoring wells at the DOE’s Idaho Site, the first of which tested positive for an industrial solvent more than two years ago, will be rehabilitated this summer for use by the environmental restoration program of EM cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: On Thursday, March 15 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development will hold a hearing on "Strengthening Access and Accountability to Work in Welfare Programs." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal criminal complaint charging MICHAEL MCWHORTER, 29, JOE MORRIS, 22, and MICHAEL B. HARI, 47, for using an explosive device to maliciously destroy and damage the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center (“DAF") in Bloomington, Minnesota. MCWHORTER...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PORTSMOUTH, Ohio - For the second consecutive year, Wheelersburg High School won the South Central Ohio Regional Science Bowl that was held Friday, March 9, at Shawnee State University.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Cory Marquise Williams, 24, of Bay Minette, Alabama, was sentenced to 76 months imprisonment on gun and drug charges. Court documents show that Williams was arrested in August of 2016 in Bay Minette following a...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 41-year-old Buffalo, New York, man has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Thomas Wheeler, 33, a former Hattiesburg, Mississippi, police officer, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 61 months in federal prison and a $1,500 fine for attempted possession of 50 kilograms or more of marijuana with the intent to distribute, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Edward McDavid, 28, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a felon. McDavid pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Yadian Alfonse Valdes and Juan Karel Merrero Barja, residents of Miami, were sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett for trafficking in device making equipment, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump urging him to extend the Federal cost share for debris removal and emergency protective measures for the U.S. Virgin Islands as a result of the damage after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Region today issued a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) and Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Right-of-Use Downgradient Study Activities for study projects occurring on Reclamation-managed land near the Las Vegas Wash.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Graham, 32 of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Eighty-Four, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvani,a has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of willfully injuring or committing any depredation against any property of the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
