News from October 2018
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize challenge seeking new or improved techniques to remove sediment from reservoirs in a cost-effective manner. Sedimentation in reservoirs can be a significant problem by limiting the active life of reservoirs by reducing available water storage capacity or flood control benefits. Sedimentation also impacts dam outlets, reservoir water intakes, water quality, recreation, upstream flood stage, and downstream habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Coffeyville woman was sentenced today to 60 days in federal prison for stealing $150,000 from a customer at a bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, she was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Fargo - U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of North Dakota was awarded the “Leadership in the Prevention of Transnational Crime Award" from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced JOHN DEVERE BATTLE, 25, of Durham, to 1,272 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. He ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - The public is invited to join the National Park Service, the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA), and a cadre of naturalists, scientists, and educators to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Giacomini Wetlands Restoration Project and learn about an extraordinary ecological success story on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William A. Six, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted to selling crystal methamphetamine and having a firearm near a school, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Bakersfield, Calif., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in southern Missouri and in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ryan Michael Spencer pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco to two counts of production of child pornography, conspiracy to distribute and receive child pornography, distribution of child pornography, receipt of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and felony contempt of court, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury sitting in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville has returned an indictment charging four California men with conspiring to violate the federal riots statue, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JODI ZILS GAGNE, 43, of Bristol, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of mail fraud related to her theft of more than $169,000 from individuals for whom she served as a court-appointed conservator.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Two members of the West Oakland gang, Acorn, were sentenced for their respective roles in a criminal racketeering conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, Chief United...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Plain City, Ohio, man was sentenced today to an additional 160 months in prison for possessing hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse while incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for a previous offense involving the receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Execution of Federal Search Warrants Resulted in the Seizure of More Than $292,000, a Loaded 9mm Pistol, an AR-15 Rifle with a Magazine, and Several Boxes of Ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Artists in Residence Margo Klass and Frank Soos will share their art and experiences from a float trip on Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River at a public presentation on October 18 at 4 p.m. at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center in Fairbanks. The free event is being held in celebration of National Wildlife Refuge Week and the 50th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Cary E. Mosley, 48, of Benton, Illinois, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for defrauding his former employer, Southern Illinois Healthcare ("SIH"), Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. A federal grand jury had previously returned an indictment charging Mosley with mail and wire fraud on January 4.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: Brookline, MA -John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site (NHS) will close for the season on Sunday, October 28. The site will participate in the annual Beals Street Halloween event on Wednesday, October 31. From November 2018 to May 2019, the site will be closed; with tours offered Monday-Friday by appointment only.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Brian Napier, age 35, of Waterford, New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has issued a Notice of Intent for a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) expected to fund cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects that reduce technical risks associated with enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and expand application of EOR methods.
