News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Dumfries man pleaded guilty today to distribution of fentanyl causing serious bodily injury, for which he faces a mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Scott Aikens, 60, of Clymer, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Road striping will occur within Zion National Park September 25- 27, 2018. Traffic will be held for no more than 15 minutes in the following places and times.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A federal grand jury indicted Decatur, Ga., resident Orenthial Walker, 42, this week on felony charges linked to a widespread scam in which victims were coerced to pay “fines" for failing to appear for non-existent federal jury duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - The straw purchasers of a gun used to murder an innocent man appeared in federal court today, charged with making false statements during the acquisition of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposal to rewrite the joint employer standard. The current standard requires all corporations with control over workers’ health, safety, hours, pay, or other working conditions to be at the bargaining table with workers.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after a series of gas pipeline explosions near Boston, Massachusetts yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Emil D. Lewis, a/k/a "E," 49, of East Saint Louis, Illinois, has been sentenced to a 240-month term in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine and cocaine distribution, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Steven D. Weinhoeft announced today. Lewis previously pleaded guilty to a four-count indictment charging the same.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Weather:. Today will be partly to mostly sunny. Temperatures will range from 54-64 degrees in the Flathead Valley and 46-56 degrees at the Boundary Fire. Winds will remain at 5-10 mph out of the southwest, gusting 15-20 mph. Relative humidity remains in the mid 30’s. This weekend should bring substantial...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A woman pleaded guilty Thursday to committing mail fraud in connection with a nearly $1.3 million scheme, U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: RUPERT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that the Minidoka boat ramp construction project, below Minidoka Dam, will begin October 2. The ramp and the surrounding area will continue to be closed to the public, including all boater and angler traffic. The area will re-open after construction is completed, which is on or about December 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James D. Robnett, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging RICHARD JOSEPHBERG...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Aug. 28, 2018, a federal grand jury charged Leesa Marie Parkhill-Nieland, age 47, of Altoona, with Social Security fraud, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Parkhill-Nieland is charged with theft of government funds, Social Security fraud, and making a false statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: YUNIEL AGUILA DARIAS, 36, of Miami, Florida was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on September 4, 2018 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Daria was arrested in Benton City, Washington. He received forty-six months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Tristan Mack, 41, of East St. Louis, Illinois, has been sentenced to 46 months in prison for knowingly possessing a gun after sustaining a felony conviction, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. United States District Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel handed down the sentence, which includes a three-year term of supervised release. Robinson also agreed to forfeit the firearm he illegally possessed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CARSON MORRIS, a former New York State Correction Officer, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 40 months in prison for the Nov. 12, 2013, beating of Kevin Moore, a 54-year-old inmate at the Downstate Correctional Facility in Fishkill, New York, and for falsifying records to cover up the beating.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- Five research organizations were awarded separate contracts totaling $11,511,565 to develop new methods to identify and attribute Network/Internet-scale Disruptive Events (NIDEs), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Recovered Crack, Cocaine, PCP, Fentanyl, and Firearms During Investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
Release: With regard to Florence: * The Department of Energy’s Energy Response Center is fully activated and DOE ESF-12 responders have deployed to FEMA coordination centers in Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Atlanta, in addition to State Emergency Operations Centers in the Carolinas. We are prepared to ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after a series of gas pipeline explosions near Boston, Massachusetts yesterday...
