News from October 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration today released its plan to expand the use of biometrics technology as part of its continued effort to enhance security and the traveler experience. The will guide the agency’s biometric efforts to modernize aviation passenger identity verification in the coming years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Took Opioids from Patients in Waterloo Nursing Home in 2018 After Being Fired from Cedar Falls Nursing Home for Similar Thefts in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tion Makeise Foster, 23, of Point Arena, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to twelve and one-half years in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Oil City, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men in the United States illegally were sentenced today for drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tion Makeise Foster, 23, of Point Arena, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to twelve and one-half years in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Oct. 15, 2018 - In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a temporary waiver that will allow participants in the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Florida to buy hot foods with their benefits through Oct. 31, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man pleaded guilty Monday to robbing a bank in Leawood, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By State Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), Global Health Subcommittee Chairman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Global Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Karen Bass (D-CA) today released a bipartisan report outlining problems with USAID’s largest-ever...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced John Michael Fowler, age 28, of Randallstown, Maryland, today to 40 years in federal prison for four counts of sexually abusing a minor in order to produce visual images of the abuse, and one count of possession of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julio Contreras, a/k/a Blue Demon, 34, of McAllen, Texas, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy involving five kilograms or...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management will begin hazardous fuels thinning in the San Pedro, New Mexico area. Thinning operations will begin around Oct. 17, 2018, and carry on until Nov. 30, 2108. The thinning project is expected to take 2-6 weeks; however, the exact timing is subject to weather...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Seven Others Have Pleaded Guilty to Charges Stemming from a Multi-Agency Gang Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Versailles, Mo., man who stole nine firearms during the burglary of a local pawn shop pleaded guilty in federal court today for illegally possessing the firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Derek Blake, 32, of Sidney, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Senior Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to 3½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Three Guilty Pleas, Four Sentenced. FRESNO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses. Richard Reyes, a 37-year-old resident...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Ohio Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Ruben Gomez, 34, of Lawrence, Massachusetts pleaded guilty in federal court to possession and distribution of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced today that Alpha Research & Technology, Inc. (“ART"), an El Dorado Hills company that provides command and control systems to the U.S. Air Force, has agreed to pay the United States $1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting inflated contract pricing to the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Former U.S. Senate Employee Pleads Guilty to False Statements Charge.
