News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Defendant’s Fraudulent Acts Led to Nearly $450,000 in Losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: A 40-year-old Lubbock high school teacher has been charged with enticement and attempted enticement of his 16-year-old female student, U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - U.S. Attorney David J. Freed joined the Department of Justice today in announcing more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security, educate and train students and faculty, and support law enforcement officers and first responders who arrive on the scene of a school violence...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Grand Canyon National Park implemented Level 2 water conservation measures due to a series of breaks in the Transcanyon Waterline. Until park staff repairs the break and water in storage tanks reaches sustainable levels, the park will remain in conservation mode.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Sept. 17, 2018, Dennis Wendt, doing business as Rich Hill Horse & Tack Auction waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $750 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today the Senate passed bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid crisis. H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), will now move to the president’s desk to be signed into law.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and a senior member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), applauded Senate passage of a bipartisan, bicameral bill that includes reauthorization of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and operator of a Swiss asset management firm was arrested today on charges of engaging in a massive global securities fraud scheme that netted trading proceeds of approximately $164 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Christopher Davis, 46, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a child pornography charge. Davis entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends a 15-year prison sentence followed by 20 years of supervised release. Davis will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney Charles E. Peeler joined the Department of Justice in announcing more than $70 million in grant funding to bolster school security, educate and train students and faculty, and support law enforcement officers and first responders who arrive on the scene of a school violence incident, including $372,986 for the 2018 COPS School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) in Ben Hill County, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Manuel Torres-Zapien, age 23, was sentenced in federal court Monday in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of bank theft. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Mitchell to three years’ probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Terrence Omar Gates, 32, of Jackson, was found guilty this morning by a federal jury for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Jackson Police Chief James E. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - This week marks the one-year anniversary of the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a nationwide initiative by the U.S. Department of Justice to reduce gun violence in neighborhoods across the country. PSN is part of the Department of Justice’s broader strategy to reduce gun and violent crime by targeting areas in need and prosecuting those individuals who commit violent crime within them.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Three New Jersey men - a real estate investor, a builder, and a real estate settlement attorney - were arraigned today on multiple charges in connection with their alleged roles in a mortgage fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that William C. Read, 33, of Bath, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with online enticement of a minor, and distribution and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske today recognized Congress for the passage of, which includes the TSA Modernization Act, the first ever reauthorization of TSA since the agency’s founding in 2001. The bill authorizes TSA to continue as an agile and modern national security organization capable of dealing with ever-evolving threats to our transportation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Several people with domestic violence convictions have recently been indicted in federal court as part of an emphasis on keeping firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jarrod Sims, age 38, of Colquitt, Georgia, pled guilty today to Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon before U.S. District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams in Albany.
