News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Fugitive Charged with 1994 Las Cruces Murder Brought Back from Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Dr. Tao Li, 45, of San Diego, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to steal trade secrets from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to benefit a Chinese pharmaceutical company named Renopharma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Families from across the Ohio Valley will have the chance to see their favorite emergency response, military and construction vehicles up close this weekend, thanks to the United States Attorney’s Office, Cabela’s, first responders, and other businesses in our community.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Belle Vernon and a resident of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, have been sentenced in federal court on their convictions of conspiracy and filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: MINERAL, CA - All National Park Service sites, including Lassen Volcanic National Park, will offer free admission to visitors on September 22 for National Public Lands Day. “I encourage everyone to take advantage of this fee free day to explore and discover the beauty and recreational opportunities that...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: CHELAN COUNTY, WA - The Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) have issued the final Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the proposed removal and replacement of the Upper Snow Lake water discharge control valve. The water control valve structure is located on land owned by the Service and surrounded by the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area in Chelan County, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Eddie Pace, age 44, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin and more than 500 grams of cocaine, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Orlando B. Gutierrez (619) 546-6958.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News 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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Eddie Pace, age 44, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin and more than 500 grams of cocaine, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven Merrday has sentenced Dr. John Janick (73, Port Charlotte) to five months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for obstructing a Medicare audit. As part of his sentence, Janick is required to pay $118,831.62 in restitution to the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Wisconsin returned an indictment charging Chadwick Grubbs, 33, with obstruction and attempted obstruction of the free exercise of religious beliefs, by mailing threats on three separate dates in May to the Harry and Rose...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brandon Shields, age 33, formerly of Philadelphia, and currently a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2018, to assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to serve an additional five years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office is seeking volunteers for its upcoming National Public Land Day events on Sept. 22. In recognition of this annual observance, the BLM will conduct cleanup work on BLM land located north of Bluewater Creek Area of Critical Environmental Concern.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito today announced a resident of Puerto Rico was charged with attempting to smuggle more than 10 kilograms of cocaine into the United States through Newark Liberty International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Millvale, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of producing material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of ROBERT PHILIP IVERS, 65, for threatening to murder a federal judge and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. IVERS was found guilty today following a jury trial before Judge Robert W. Pratt, in United States District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce 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 Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - A new culvert construction project is scheduled for this fall along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, four miles up Lake McDonald. Fire conditions permitting, the Going-to-the-Sun Road will be temporarily closed from Apgar Loop Road at the foot of Lake McDonald to Avalanche from October 15-19...
