News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that a Madison, Wisconsin man was sentenced on September 14 for using violence, threats and coercion to compel two young women suffering from heroin addiction, to prostitute for his profit in Madison. Harry Miller, 60, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. This prison term will be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM Assistant Secretary Anne White has launched a Twitter page where she will share accomplishments and other news about the cleanup program. Follow her at @EMAssistantSec. White’s Twitter account joins EM’s Facebook page as a social media outlet for communicating cleanup activities and progress. Additionally, you can sign up for the weekly EM Update newsletter here.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Sept. 17, 2018, U.S. District Judge James M. Moody, Eastern District of Arkansas, sitting by designation, sentenced Dakota James Charboneau, age 24, Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, ND, on charges of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROBERT SHANE APGAR, 35, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to 235 months in prison for making a bomb threat and sending child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced Bernandino G. Bolatete (69, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for possession of an unregistered firearms silencer. A federal jury found Bolatete guilty on May 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Somerville man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Friday, Sept. 14, cited multiple contractors for safety violations after one employee suffered fatal injuries and five other employees sustained serious injuries when a pedestrian bridge at the Florida International University campus in Miami collapsed. The five companies collectively received seven violations, totaling $86,658 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Tamiez Antwan Weeks, 22, of Mobile, was sentenced this morning in federal court on the charge of using, carrying or possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking felony. Weeks pled guilty to the charge in June of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Keith Wyche, Allen O’Neil and Kyron Graham, alleged members of the Bloods street gang, with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl on Staten Island. Wyche and O’Neil were also...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Somerville man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in creating and operating two botnets, which targeted “Internet of Things" (IoT) devices. Paras Jha, 22, of Fanwood, New Jersey; Josiah White, 21, of Washington, Pennsylvania; and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: Ramon X. Nunez-Polanco, 59, a citizen of Mexico and lawful permanent resident of the United States, has been sentenced to 80 months in federal prison for his participation in a drug conspiracy and firearms trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bobby E. McGraw, age 43, of Mountain Grove, Missouri, was sentenced to 5 years of probation for Importation Of Anabolic Steroids, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 952(b), 960(a)(1) and 960(b)(5). The charges arose from an investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Horton Creek Campground will close for the winter season beginning Sunday, Oct. 14, and a paving project will get underway to improve visitor access. The newly improved campground will reopen Friday, April 26, 2019, in time for the opening of the Eastern Sierra trout-fishing season.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: POINT MARION, Pa. - The Friendship Hill Association and the National Park Service celebrate the life and times of Albert Gallatin at FestiFall 2018 Saturday, Sept. 22, and Sunday, Sept. 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Friendship Hill National Historic Site. With music, food, crafts and games, there is something for everyone at FestiFall.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis-United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today that two men from the Muncie area, one a city employee, and the other, a local businessman, have been charged in two separate, but related, indictments in federal court. “The City of Muncie deserves better from its public...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A dramatic physical and cultural transformation is underway at the Hanford Site as portions of the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) key to the direct-feed low activity waste (DFLAW) approach to tank waste treatment shift from construction to operations, senior EM and contractor representatives said last week.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The nominations of Michael Faulkender to be Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Elizabeth Darling to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families today advanced out of the Finance Committee. Faulkender advanced by a vote 25-2 and Darling advanced unanimously. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Christopher Owens was sentenced to 41 months in prison for unlawfully prescribing oxycodone hydrochloride without a medical purpose, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable William Alsup, U.S. District Judge.
