News from September 2018

By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: Twenty candidates will become new citizens during a ceremony at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site on Tuesday, September 18 at 10:00 a.m. The ceremony will take place at the park’s new amphitheater, near the main visitor parking lot. The public is invited and welcome to observe this moving experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Paul Dwayne Allen, 31, of Lebanon pleaded guilty to failing to register as a sex offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Kenneth McLay, 46, of Old Town, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Sharon Williams-Combs, 47, of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced Friday, September 7, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska, by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., for preparing and filing false tax returns. In April Ms. Williams-Combs was found guilty...

By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a draft environmental document for public review on a proposal to purchase up to 6,000 acre-feet of recycled water for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex, under Central Valley Project Improvement Act authorization.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, MA - Cape Cod National Seashore has announced that a bat research team will be conducting work in the seashore this fall.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Charles Moran, Jr., 44, of Grant County, Kentucky, was sentenced, last Thursday, to 14 years in federal prison, by United States District Judge David Bunning, for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: ALBANY: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jeroen Tiller, age 32, of Sale City, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison for Possession with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The sentence was handed down by Senior U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany on September 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Marietta, Georgia, has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months in jail on his conviction of failure to register under SORNA, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Wilmington man was sentenced Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, in federal court in Boston for dealing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Canadian telemarketing operation - who was extradited to the United States last year after more than 10 years of litigation in Canada - was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for orchestrating a telemarketing scheme that falsely promised credit card fraud protection and defrauded at least 60,000 primarily elderly victims out of more than $18 million.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has completed the environmental assessment (EA) and released the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Central North Dakota Water Supply Project.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today that LocusLabs, Inc. of Oakland, California has received $119,100 to develop wayfinding technology as part of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: Buffalo National River staff and volunteers invite the public to Boxley Valley Historic District for weekend programming this fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Marto Orantes, of Winchester, Virginia, was sentenced today to time served for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Robert Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office and Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced that on Aug. 31, 2018, Salvatore Colonna, 69, of Fort Lauderdale, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that John Furber, 46, formerly of Rochester, was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for possessing quantities of fentanyl and carfentanil with intent to distribute.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gary Owen Jones, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for illegal possession of ammunition, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the September 2018 Federal Grand Jury.