News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: A Pompano Beach resident was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in federal prison, after having been convicted at trial of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two area men entered guilty pleas to federal charges in Beckley.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal indictment unsealed here today charges three men in a “swatting" incident where false reports to police and emergency services set off a chain of events that led to a Wichita man being shot and killed, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By State Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of a measure to improve congressional oversight over the use of military force abroad...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Naiqondis Maurice Spates, age 33, Devonte Denterrio Jenkins, age 26, and Gary Lind Krueger, age 71, all from Waterloo, Iowa, received the prison terms on May 22, 2018, after each pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Spates also pled guilty to distribution of crack cocaine within a 1,000...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On May 23, 2018, two individuals were sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, for their roles in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Donald Kevin Collins, 41, of Elizabethton, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 51 months in federal prison. Upon his release...
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Diaz-Balart, Ranking Member Price, and Chairman Frelinghuysen, for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Victim Was Repeatedly Slashed, Left for Dead.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Throughout the 2018 boating season, potable water and flush toilets will not be available at Weaver Point Campground in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. Outhouses will be open for use at the campground. Winter storms knocked down poles and damaged the Chelan PUD lines which provide power to the area. The water system depends on electricity to run the pumps.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a Fire Prevention Order prohibiting campfires, explosives and fireworks on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce off of Gilmore Trail north of Fairbanks and north of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the Ohio State University has taken home first place in the final year of EcoCAR 3, an Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition, sponsored by DOE and General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM). This is the fourth consecutive win for the Buckeyes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a former corrections officer at the federal prison for women in Alabama to 1½ years in prison for committing a sexual act with an inmate and lying about his contact with her while he worked at the facility. U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Miami Field Office, Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Bourbon announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - More than 500 law enforcement personnel executed a major operation this morning, taking into custody 32 defendants who are charged in two federal racketeering indictments, one of which outlines how members of the Mexican Mafia were able to control drug smuggling, narcotics sales and the extortion of prisoners inside the Los Angeles County jail system (LACJ).
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Federal and state authorities arrested 54-year-old Robert Mikell Ussery in Lockhart, TX, today on a federal charge of convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief financial officer of a New Jersey orthopedic care provider was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for stealing more than $1 million from the company for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, National Park Service (NPS) Deputy Director P. Daniel Smith announced the selection of Robert “Bob" Vogel to be the regional director of the National Park Service’s Southeast Region based in Atlanta. Vogel currently serves as the regional director of the NPS National Capital Region in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Bryant C. Hardnett, age 45, of Cohoes, New York, pled guilty yesterday to stealing the personally identifying information of children and using it to falsely claim the children as his own dependents on his tax returns.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a report of the Mission Innovation Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Experts’ Workshop held September 26-28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. The Workshop, hosted by the United States in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, brought together 260 of the world’s leading CCUS experts from academia and industry.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Rome, NY - From Saturday, May 26 through Monday, May 28, Fort Stanwix National Monument will host the annual French and Indian War Weekend. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the events of the war on the Oneida Carry and the activities of the British units at the fort. Events will include military drills and daily fort life activities. Children will have the opportunity to play 18th Century games as well as try various other hands on activities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Johnny Fletcher, age 40, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), located in Waymart, Pennsylvania, was indicted on May 22, 2018, by a federal grand jury for assaulting two federal correctional officers and possession of contraband in prison.
