News from March 2018
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today that it will start enforcement of the final rule on occupational exposure to beryllium in general, construction, and shipyard industries on May 11, 2018. This timeframe will ensure that stakeholders are aware of their obligations, and that OSHA provides consistent instructions to its inspectors. The start of enforcement had previously been set for March 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Elizabeth Kovachevich today sentenced Samika Garcia (39), formerly of Riverview, to four years and three months in federal prison on one count of wire fraud and one count aggravated identity theft in connection with income tax fraud. As part of her sentence, she was also ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Garcia pleaded guilty to these charges on Nov. 15, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 20 criminal aliens and immigration violators in the Kansas City metro area during a four-day enforcement operation, which ended Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Staten Island, New York, man today admitted his role in a scheme to use phony prescriptions for medically unnecessary compounded medications to defraud the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)’s health insurance plan and other insurers out of $5 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Former Cartersville police officer Bryson-Taylor Wayne Banks, who notified drug traffickers that the FBI was conducting a court-authorized wiretap, has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of Unlawful Notification of Electronic Surveillance.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Roads in Yellowstone National Park will begin to close to oversnow travel the week of March 4. Spring plowing will begin as road segments close. All oversnow travel will end for the season Thursday, March 15, at 9 p.m. Weather permitting, some park roads will reopen to automobile travel Friday, April 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department was taken into custody this morning on federal charges related to the illegal sale of approximately 100 firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: A new in the spring issue of the National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) Impact Magazine profiles the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability’s (OE) Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) Program. The article - Developing Next-Generation Cybersecurity Technologies to Strengthen...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Beginning Wednesday, March 7, the Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad Field Office will begin prescribed burns at five locations through the month, weather permitting. Signs to alert the public of the burn operations will be posted. Public entry into the project area is discouraged. The locations are:.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - The Justice Department and the Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook today announced that Mark Frederick, a former Captain of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting an assault on a pre-trial detainee at the Iberia Parish Jail (IPJ).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tayquan Thomas, age 23, of Florence, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2250(a). United States District Judge Bryan Harwell, of Florence, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: BAKER CITY, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center will be connecting kids to public lands and America’s natural and cultural heritage with a week’s worth of spring break activities at the end of March.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: VERNON SWEENEY, JR. (“SWEENEY"), age 52, of Tickfaw, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty today for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that five private sector and citizen solvers shared a prize competition purse of $50,000 for their submissions of concepts to improve arsenic measurement technologies in water.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 1, 2018, Ricardo D. Minor, 38, of Cahokia, Illinois, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis, Illinois, in a three count indictment charging him with enticement of a minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant Falsely Claimed to Work for Immigration Service and Could Provide ‘Green Card’.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Michael Chan, 34, of Bayside, New York, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to cyberstalking.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Carriage roads in the park are closed indefinitely to all users until the roads dry out and become firm enough to prevent damage to their gravel surface.Warmer weather and wet conditions have softened the carriage roads and made them susceptible to damage. Walking, bicycling, and riding horses on the carriage roads under the current conditions can cause ruts and potholes that will channel water and exacerbate erosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former staffer for a Member of the United States Congress was found guilty today of bribery and attempted extortion after demanding and accepting $5,000 to prevent the closure of a marijuana shop in the City of Compton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Complaint Filed in Brooklyn Federal Court Charges Defendants with Fraudulently Inflating the Price of Penny Stock.
