News from October 2018
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks today announced the launch of the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC) revealing the 12 competing universities and the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After four days of jury trial presided by US District Court Judge Jay A. García-Gregory, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against Edilio Benjamín-Hernández and Johanni Balbuena-Hernández for Conspiring to Possess with Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances, Aiding and Abetting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - An Elkins, West Virginia man was arraigned today on multiple drug charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Elkins on Aug. 22, 2018, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that Marco Antonio Alvarez-Acevedo, a 28 year-old citizen of Mexico and resident of Sunnyside, Washington, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to 51 months in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Mexican man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for his leadership role in transporting over 3,300 kilograms of cocaine for a large-scale Guatemalan drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating in Central America, as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation codenamed Operation Go Explorers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $220,000 in campaign funds while serving as the treasurer for a Newark mayoral campaign, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: El PASO, Texas - After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Howard Joseph Vorder Bruegge, III (35, Tampa) has been arrested and charged by federal criminal complaint with possession and distribution of child pornography. Vorder Bruegge faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Khalif Cherry, age 40, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative will issue its first joint solicitation between the High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program and the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program in November 2018. This solicitation will seek qualified industry partners to participate in short-term, collaborative projects with DOE’s national laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Today, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon unsealed a nine count indictment charging drug trafficking offenses against 22 members of a criminal organization responsible for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine in Oregon and Washington State.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA -- Jon Wilson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division, announces the release of The Opioid Threat in Pennsylvania, a comprehensive assessment of the Commonwealth’s opioid crisis achieved through the collection and analysis of supply...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 24, 2018 - The National Park Service (NPS) has released an environmental assessment that evaluates a proposal by Verizon Wireless to install a wireless communications facility near Wuksachi Village in Sequoia National Park. The NPS is required by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to consider all applications for the installation of cellular equipment on NPS.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A four-count indictment was unsealed Tuesday charging Ivan Isho, 41, of Phoenix, Arizona, with wire fraud, impersonation of a federal officer, and cyberstalking, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Timothy O. Meadows, 35, of Marion, Illinois, has been sentenced to 121 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. Meadows previously pled guilty to a two-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and distribution of more than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Today, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon unsealed a nine count indictment charging drug trafficking offenses against 22 members of a criminal organization responsible for trafficking large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine in Oregon and Washington State.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Birmingham lawyer who was in a scheme to bribe a state legislator to use his office to oppose Environmental Protection Agency Actions in north Birmingham, received a federal prison sentence today of 5 years, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Holloman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Anthony Ronnie Martinez, 45, of Tulsa, was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison for stealing and unlawfully carrying away firearms from a licensed dealer and for possessing, receiving, concealing, storing, bartering, selling, and disposing of stolen firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: Two Glynn County men have been charged in federal court with selling the deadly synthetic opioid Fentanyl, including a quantity of the drug that killed a Brunswick woman.
