News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Javier Beltran, 34, of Strathmore, pleaded guilty today to two counts of use of a firearm during a crime of violence, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former employee of the Las Vegas Valley Water District pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and tax evasion as part of a scheme to defraud the public utilities company of over $6.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Manhattan man was sentenced Tuesday to 51 months in federal prison for viewing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He also was ordered to pay $26,000 in restitution whose images he viewed.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Washington State Department of Ecology has granted the permits needed for Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), or Vit Plant, to finish construction of the Effluent Management Facility (EMF).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: (FERGUS COUNTY, Mont.) - Snow dusted the ground in Fergus County before September was torn off the 2018 calendar.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Stephanie Allard, 39, formerly of Ashland, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gerald W. Mercer, 42, was sentenced on Thursday to 191 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. District Judge Curtis V. Gomez also sentenced Mercer to five years of supervised release, 400 hours of community service, and a $100 special assessment.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the deployment of Missouri Task Force 1 to Florida to assist with the response to Hurricane Michael...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm during robberies. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Tuesday to 57 months in federal prison for stealing guns out of an undercover Sedgwick County Sheriff's car, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno resident who sexually exploited an infant and distributed child pornography over the Internet was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Howard D. McKibben to serve 480 months in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervision, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A New York man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today to charges that he participated in conspiracies to operate large-scale, sophisticated marijuana grow facilities inside a converted Providence mill building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The second of two Florida men charged with trafficking more than 5 kilograms of cocaine through the U.S. Postal Service into Rhode Island from Puerto Rico pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that YVES AUBOURG, 49, of New London, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a federal tax offense.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Office of River Protection tank farms contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) recently finished installing a new cover for a Liquid Effluent Retention Facility (LERF) basin at the Hanford Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Isaac Benjamin Voss, 41, of Clark County, Washington, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for defrauding domestic and foreign investors who believed they were investing in a viable clean energy company.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Artist Jamie McHugh joins Glacier National Park for the last artistic residency of the summer season.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) continue to consolidate critical analytical capabilities and reduce the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) operational footprint with the latest transfer of radiological asbestos monitoring equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Warrensburg, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Vineland, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for stealing a car and using it as part of a South Jersey bank robbery spree in September and October 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
