News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a meth-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in a fatal shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Jeffrey Lee Harris, age 31, of Pickens, pled guilty in federal court in Spartanburg, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. United States District Judge Donald C. Coggins, of Spartanburg, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Oct. 11, 2018, a federal grand jury indicted two men for firearms theft from a UPS facility. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), delivered remarks at a keynote session of an annual offshore wind conference, Offshore WINDPOWER 2018 hosted by American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Below are Senator Carper's keynote remarks as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon, and Associate Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux of the DEA’s Los Angeles Division announced today in Washington D.C. the unsealing of federal indictments against 11 members of the notorious...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The owner of several retail pharmacies, including a pharmacy in Piscataway, New Jersey, was arraigned today on charges he conspired to defraud the IRS, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Devils Postpile National Monument News Release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Nearly 150 law enforcement officers from the FBI, DEA, Norfolk Police, and the U.S. Marshals participated in Operation Goodfellas this morning in Norfolk, executing arrest warrants on five Hampton Roads men for their alleged participation in a $19 million drug trafficking conspiracy. One man remains a fugitive.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: STONEWALL, TX - This week, the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park received results of environmental water tests that were positive for Legionella bacteria at three sites: the pool house, the Klein shop, and the hangar visitor center. While there have been no confirmed cases of illness associated with this at the park, Legionella can cause a severe pneumonia (called Legionnaires’ disease) when people breathe in aerosolized droplets of water that contain the bacteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced JAMES ANTRON DILDY, 38, of Farmville, North Carolina to 90 months imprisonment, followed by 6 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Kyle Leavy, 32, of Farmington, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT. BETWEEN. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND. THE GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE. The Government of the United States of America and the Government of Belize (hereinafter, “the Parties");. Desiring to promote an international aviation system based on competition among airlines...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Fernando Vidal-Gonzalez and Jhon Jimenez-Guzman, a former professional soccer player who played with Colombian Team America, have been sentenced for their roles in an international money laundering organization responsible for collecting over $1 million from drug trafficking in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: PRINEVILLE, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation, with coordination from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) and NOAA Fisheries, reduced fish and wildlife winter flows from Arthur
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Michael Glover, a/k/a “Glove," a/k/a “G," a/k/a “HG," age 48, and Jihad Salahadeen Pollard, age 44, both formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, were sentenced to lengthy sentences yesterday in federal court. Glover was sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans conduct a prescribed fire in Cibola County, between Oct. 23-Dec. 31, 2018, weather permitting. The burn, which will occur in the 4,000 acre Chain of Craters-Rendija prescribed fire project, will be conducted in several phases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - In the past six months, law enforcement officers have charged 106 persons in federal and state court, seized 160 pounds of methamphetamine and confiscated 52 firearms from the Yellowstone County community as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program to reduce violent crime through a multi-jurisdictional law enforcement effort.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM recently announced the appointment of seven industry leaders to DOE’s Environmental Management Advisory Board (EMAB). They join 11 returning board members.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Isaac Banda, 29, of El Paso, Texas, pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking offense arising out of the seizure of more than two pounds of methamphetamine at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in southern New Mexico in Aug. 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), this morning arrested eight defendants named in a grand jury indictment that alleges a scheme to send methamphetamine to Hawaii, including nearly 12 kilograms of narcotics made to look like decorative Aztec calendars and statues.
