News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Watrous, NM: The ecological balance needed to maintain natural habitats for both plant and wildlife is often at risk to a variety of factors, both manmade and natural. Everything form pollution, to overgrazing, and the occasional natural disaster can upset the structure of these habitats. Throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dimas Colon-Cruz, 37, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, was sentenced to 154 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Preston James, age 39, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine on four occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division 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 Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore Superintendent, Jeff West, announces the opening of a refurbished, self-service restroom facility at Wade Shore on Shackleford Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Sundiata El-Amin, 69, a physician from Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was convicted today, by a federal jury sitting in Covington, of 173 drug trafficking offenses connected to his operation of the El-Amin Clinic, in Grant County, kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident and a Florida resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former management analyst for the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from schemes in which she accepted bribes in return for clearing the way for payments to be made on fraudulent invoices that cost the D.C. government more than $480,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Los Angeles-based dentist was charged in an indictment unsealed on Monday for his alleged participation in a health care fraud and identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: A New York resident was sentenced in federal court on March 10, 2018, for a three-year fraud scheme involving aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Along with the latest developments in robotic technology, attendees at the 2018 Waste Management Symposia in Phoenix will have the opportunity to see up close the historic Robin Robot, a “relic" of the 1980s that was one of the most advanced robots of its time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Powers, age 53, of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, to one year probation with the condition that he spend four months on monitored home detention for filing a false Federal Income Tax Return pertaining to tax year 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Antonio Johnson, age 49, of Baltimore, Maryland, today on ten counts of Hobbs Act robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Nicholas E. Fogarty, 36, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was convicted today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola of advertisement of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Extended stretches of U.S. land borders invite illegal entry on the ground, and our coastlines are often used for unauthorized seaborne entry. New, creative attempts at illegal activity in these domains are a daily occurrence. Aerial threats pose a different challenge as they have no natural barriers restricting them - land or coastal. Airborne illegal entry issues call for expert input from a broad range of public, private, and interagency partners.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ARPA-E today announced $16 million in funding for eight projects as part of the Innovative Natural-gas Technologies for Efficiency Gain in Reliable and Affordable Thermochemical Electricity-generation (INTEGRATE) program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The first grizzly bear sightings of 2018 occurred in Yellowstone National Park last week. On Tuesday, March 6, staff observed an 11-year-old male grizzly bear wearing a radio collar in the west-central part of the park. On Wednesday, March 7, employees reported seeing a grizzly bear in the east-central part of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 12, 2018, Roscoe Peter Begay, 37, of Tonalea, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 12 years in prison, followed by a term of five years of supervised release. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- On March 12, 2018, Bennie Lee Holtsoi, 27, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 59 months’ imprisonment. Holtsoi had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on President Trump’s nomination of Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
