News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Nobody really knows what plant roots are doing when they’re at home. Digging up a plant exposes the roots, but destroys the soil’s natural fabric. Information is lost about the intact natural arrangement of the roots and soil. Ditto for studying the roots of plants in pots. In fact, there is no noninvasive field method of determining, in detail, how the root systems of crop plants change over time in response to variations in weather or soil nutrients.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jason Kenneth Bell, aged 41, from Cochran, Bleckley County, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on May 1, 2018 to two counts of Anonymous Telecommunications Harassment. Mr. Bell entered his plea in Macon before U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Sherri Hobson (619) 961-0287.
By DOE Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $30 million in funding for projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Duration Addition to electricitY Storage (DAYS). DAYS project teams will build innovative technologies to enable long-duration energy storage on the power grid, providing reliable electricity for 10 to approximately 100 hours.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark Russell (a.k.a. "Snake"), 60, of Duxbury, Vermont, has been charged, by indictment, with violating the federal "Crack House Statute," which prohibits making available a place, such as a residence, for manufacturing, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An Alamo man and an illegal alien living in Donna have been ordered to prison for their part in an alien smuggling conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Daniel Medina-Acosta, 37, and Arturo Rocha-Guajardo, 37, pleaded guilty in November 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today that Michael Clark, 33, Chicago, Illinois, was found guilty of possessing 40 grams or more of fentanyl with intent to distribute. The jury reached its verdict yesterday evening after 30 minutes of deliberation following one day of testimony in U.S. District Court in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Dontae Small, age 44 of Baltimore, Maryland, to 27 years in prison for conspiracy, carjacking, and destruction of government property, after he rammed a stolen car into a security gate at the National Security Agency in Fort...
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- The Santa Monica Mountains Fund is seeking 10,000 community members to sign an online pledge to refrain from using rodent poisons that work their way up the food chain and sicken or kill wildlife. The pledge takes only a few moments and can be found at samofund.org/takethepledge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired highway patrol trooper was convicted today on a charge of lying to the FBI during an investigation into illegal gambling in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Stephan McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has initiated Stage II and Stage III Fire Restrictions as of April 30 for BLM-managed public lands within Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Mono and San Diego counties. These restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Middlebrooks, 22, Nasir Perez, 20, and Deborah Siegel-Edelman, 21, all of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to aiding and abetting Hobbs Act Robbery. Middlebrooks and Perez...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mark Nunnally, 51, of Memphis has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for distribution of fentanyl. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two illegal aliens residing in Pharr have been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to interfere with commerce by threats or violence and to carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Rogelio Acosta-Moctezuma, 39, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Joseph Kuzmin, 42, of Voznesenka, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to serve six years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. A jury previously found Kuzmin guilty of the charge in November 2017, after a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey sentenced Hugh Michael Glenn, 47, of Dallas, Texas, on child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal jury today found Douglas Farrar, Sr., 54, of Kaneohe, guilty of four counts of federal drug trafficking crimes for his role as the leader of a local drug distribution organization. The verdict came a few hours after a four-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2018
News Release: Of Burglarizing Poplar Bluff Firearms Dealer and Clayton, Missouri Carjacking Crime by Use of a Firearm.
