News from May 2018
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining the emergence of quantum computing and the importance of the U.S. remaining at the forefront of developing this innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging David Roy Jones, 52, formerly of Rochester, NY, with two counts of production of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Theodore S. Comando, 54, of Westbury, New York pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to failing to pay court-ordered child support.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: MOAB, UT-Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cory Nicholas Skinner, age 32, of Pikesville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 100 grams of more of heroin as well as quantities of cocaine and buprenorphine.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced today that two pulse flow releases from Whiskeytown Dam into Clear Creek will be made in June to attract adult spring-run Chinook salmon to upstream Clear Creek habitats for holding and spawning purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Father and 21-Month Old Son Were Struck by Gunfire.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - A 32-year-old Buena Vista man, who was studying to become a youth pastor, pleaded guilty earlier this week to a pair of federal charges related to the possession and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the armed robbery of a local jewelry store and a carjacking.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Big Thicket National Preserve welcomes Nate Zantzinger of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the team. He is one of 52 recent college graduates working in a national park this year to “Get Things Done" as an AmeriCorps Community Volunteer Ambassador. Zantzinger will spend a year working with park partners and local neighboring communities to organize volunteer events and activities across all seven Southeast Texas counties were the preserve is located.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officer Jamil Martin was sentenced yesterday to 20 months’ imprisonment for accepting a bribe from an owner of an automobile collision shop in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to that shop, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Omar DeJesus, age 31, of Amsterdam, New York; Dalmary Morales, age 37, of Schenectady, New York; and Juan Saez, age 35, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty yesterday to their respective roles in transporting firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shenika D. Boyd, aka “Misses," age 38, of Albany, pled guilty today to her involvement in a drug trafficking ring that operated in Schenectady and Albany.
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Early Thursday morning, law enforcement authorities arrested an alleged gang member who had been a fugitive for nearly two years after the unsealing of a federal racketeering indictment that charges him in the attempted murder of an undercover Whittier Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - Jorge Armando Ramirez-Lira, also known as Negro, Jorge Beltran-Carillo, and Edgar Nava-Baltazar, was sentenced to an additional eight years and one month in prison for importing heroin into the U.S. from Colombia and laundering the drug proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- The Bureau of Land Management Phoenix District Office will implement Stage II fire restrictions in order to reduce the risk of wildfire on public lands managed by the Phoenix District. Due to extremely dry conditions, increased fire activity and the potential for any ignition to grow into a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Leader of the Conspiracy Ronnie E. Mejia to Serve 10-Year Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: (MIAMI) - Honduran national Sergio Neftali Mejia-Duarte - was sentenced today to life in prison for his involvement in a large-scale international narcotics transportation organization.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MIGUEL ANGEL ORTIZ-GUEVARA, age 42, a citizen of Honduras, was charged yesterday in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien after deportation, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jason Perry, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
