News from November 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who will seek to chair the Natural Resources Committee in the next Congress, said today that the newly announced National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) approval of five Incidental Harassment Authorization permits to allow seismic testing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: Dietary Supplement Ingredient Importers Arrested in Connection With Large-Scale Smuggling and Money Laundering Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former Kansas City, Mo., Fire Department paramedic pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing fentanyl and morphine from ambulances for his own personal use.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service released a report under its Natural Resource Assessment Program that examines current natural resource conditions of Olympic National Park in Washington. The report is a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey and the NPS that documents conditions and trends...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Southern California residents were arrested Wednesday in connection with a long-running scheme to smuggle purported dietary supplement ingredients into the United States from China, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Luis Lopez Arce, age 26, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced to 87 months’ imprisonment and 3 years’ supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Heroin, in violation of Title 21...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that yesterday in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle CALVIN MARK WILSON, 34, of New Bern, North Carolina pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one thousand (1,000) grams or more of heroin and a quantity of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Shawn Melleski, age 27, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 46 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release on Nov. 28, 2018, by United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo for conspiring to manufacture and distribute crystal methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management, Ridgecrest Field Office, has approved the Keystone exploratory drilling project located at the Goler Wash area, southern Panamint Mountains, in Inyo County, California.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: MCDAVID, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited L.A. Disaster Relief and Property Maintenance LLC after an employee suffered burn injuries at a McDavid, Florida, worksite. The property maintenance and land clearing company faces $94,415 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Wilmer Caballero-Lazo, 26, was sentenced Tuesday, to 198 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Gregory F. Van Tatenhove, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Caballero-Lazo is a citizen of Honduras.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal grand jury has indicted Tyler King, age 29, of Grand Prairie, Texas, for conspiring to access and install malicious software on a technology company’s computer network.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico- On Nov. 21, 2018, the United States Government recovered the sum of $1,772,790.00 from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) as part of a settlement agreement reached in connection to claims of misuse of grant funds provided to the UPR by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a Nitro man was sentenced for a federal drug crime. Jon Green, Jr., 49, of Nitro, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Joseph Goodwin to 40 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Stuart commended the work of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Nov. 28, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Tyrone Green, 24, and Brennen Bryant, Jr., 25, both of Buffalo, NY, with possession and distribution of fentanyl which caused the death of an individual, possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Agoyo Vigil, 42, an enrolled member and resident of Tesuque Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to two years of probation for his conviction on a felony child abuse charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging CHRISTOPHER FELICIANO, 28, of Enfield, with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution, of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Court Judge David J. Hale sentenced Louisville, Kentucky, man, Sukhjit Bains to 63 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release and a $25,000 fine for being a felon in possession of firearms and for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A retired Massachusetts State Police Trooper pleaded guilty today to collecting over $29,000 in overtime pay that he did not work.
