News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - James Cunningham, 61, of Laconia, was sentenced in federal court to serve 39 months in prison for methamphetamine trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Alejandro Llamas-Delgado was one of the state’s biggest methamphetamine traffickers.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Olympic National Park Receives Field Trip Grant from the National Park Foundation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in Hartford has returned a four-count superseding indictment charging RAHEEN THOMPSON, 38, of Hartford, with firearm and drug offenses.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Harrison, AR: Arvest Foundation recently donated $2,000 to Buffalo National River Partnerson Wednesday to support “Fun Days" at Buffalo National River, organized in partnership with Special Olympics. The “Fun Day" events provide residents in Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton, and Searcy Counties...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Two Chicago Police Officers assigned to a gang unit on the city's West Side knowingly submitted false affidavits to judges to obtain search warrants and stole cash and drugs from properties they searched, according to a federal indictment announced today.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after the House of Representatives advanced the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (NWPAA, H.R. 3053) by a vote of 340-72.
By DOE Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 3053, The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Richard Anthony Moffett (30, Jacksonville), also known as “Mook," with three counts of sex trafficking by force and threats of force. If convicted, he faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to life, in federal prison on each count.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Albuquerque District Office is implementing fire restrictions on BLM administered public lands in Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, McKinley, Sandoval, Socorro, Torrance and Valencia counties. Due to record warm temperatures, exceptionally dry fuel moisture...
By USDA Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, leaders of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow and Chairman Pat Roberts, introduced new legislation that expands support for military veterans in agriculture. The Farmer Veteran Opportunity Act of 2018 makes all new veterans ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Adamsely Mendoza Mercado, 41, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A federal grand jury indicted Mercado on Sept. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN MAZZO, 34, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine and illegally possessing firearms. Judge Bryant also ordered MAZZO to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christine Wright Darrisaw, 42, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with threatening to kill United States District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Scott Grenninger, age 36, of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, was indicted today on one count of possession of child pornography, two counts of production of child pornography, two counts of the attempted enticement of minors to engage in prostitution, and one count of transmitting obscene materials to a minor.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today to discuss the state of electric transmission infrastructure, continuing #SubEnergy ’s Powering America series examining aspects of the nation’s power sector.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Thomas Kellermann, 65, of Bedford, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tampering with a consumer product and obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the administration's ongoing discussions on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Alyssia Marie Jae Carey, age 26, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to two counts of Uttering A Counterfeit Obligation Of The United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County doctor with practices in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
