News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 11, 2018, two co-conspirators in a wire fraud and aggravated identity theft conspiracy involving credit card skimmers were sentenced by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, to serve time in federal prison. Ricardo Viera, 49, of Homestead, Florida, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, couple and their son have been charged for their respective roles in a food stamps fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. - A man was caught with a loaded handgun at the Lynchburg Regional Airport security checkpoint by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer yesterday, Sept. 10, just one day before the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Temperatures often surge above 90 degrees during summer months here, prompting EM’s Oak Ridge cleanup contractor to search for ways to keep workers safe in the heat and humidity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Prosecution involved more than five kilograms of cocaine, 200 grams of fentanyl, and $100,000 in seized currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Craig T. Pope, 30, was sentenced to 8 years in federal prison today, consecutive to a state sentence currently being served, after pleading guilty June 7 to mailing threatening communications and threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Three quick-thinking Hanford Site workers were honored recently for saving the life of a coworker. EM Richland Operations Office contractor CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company (CHPRC) recognized subcontractors on the 324 Building Disposition Project for seeking help when a coworker...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury today returned a series of criminal indictments in separate cases charging defendants with unlawfully re-entering the United States after being deported, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM workers at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) completed demolition of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Incinerator, moving a step closer to transitioning the former gaseous diffusion complex into a private sector industrial park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Was Previously Deported in 2012 and Illegally Returned to United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former information technology employee today admitted accessing his former employer’s computer network and deleting files, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Barstow Field Office has made available for 30-day public comment an Environmental Assessment on a route designation proposal affecting 130 miles of routes located on BLM public lands currently maintained by the county of San Bernardino’s Public Works Department. Segments of these routes that are under county management are limited to street legal vehicles, as defined by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THOMAS BROUSSARD (“BROUSSARD"), age 69, of Houma, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to receiving child pornography, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Compton, Cal., man pleaded guilty in federal court on Sept. 10, 2018 to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Robert Battle, age 45, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon on his guilty plea of discharging a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime, causing death of another person, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Debra Muse, 63, of Wallingford, Ky., was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Joseph M. Hood, for conspiracy to commit crop insurance fraud and crop insurance fraud. Muse was also ordered to pay $1,656,275 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Walter Mills, 45, was sentenced today to 188 months imprisonment for robbing both a bank and a pharmacy on Kauai. As part of his sentence, Mills must pay $630 in restitution, and serve 3 years of supervised release following his incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former business manager of a local museum was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for embezzling funds from the museum that employed her.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2018
News Release: Nearly a pound of methamphetamine and over $5,000 seized from defendant’s residence.
