News from September 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: SPENCER RICH, 28, of Vernal, Utah was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on September 5, 2018 for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rich was arrested in Lander, Wyoming. He received one hundred months of imprisonment, to be followed by thirty-six months of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $9,645.95 and a $100.00 special assessment. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated this case.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named David J. Kropaczek its director.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. District Judge Federico A. Moreno sentenced a Miami area man to four years in prison, three years’ supervised release, and $1,800 in restitution for obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs by threatening, in a phone message, to detonate a bomb at a mosque in Pembroke Pines, Florida, U.S...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Tracy Allen Crawford, 32, of Tulsa, Wednesday, to a term of 30 years imprisonment for robbing a local fast food restaurant.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: North Korean Regime-Backed Programmer Charged With Conspiracy to Conduct Multiple Cyber Attacks and Intrusions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: The “Bushwick Crew" Allegedly Committed Multiple Acts of Violence to Further Their Drug Distribution Operations in Brooklyn and Queens.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Effective immediately, Vicksburg National Military Park has reopened to all public use. The military park was closed on September 5th in anticipation of impacts from Tropical Storm Gordon. A condition assessment of the park during the morning of September 6th showed no major effects from the rain event.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on charges of racketeering conspiracy involving murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that Kenterius Dyshae Hinton, age 24, of Rock Hill, plead guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). Chief...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Stephanie Louise Montgomery pleaded guilty Thursday to providing False Information about Bombs in Schools, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Two defendants, Gregory Amos and Christopher Hernandez, were charged this week in connection with a March 2018 explosion and fire resulting from their operation of a butane hash oil lab in a residential Vista neighborhood. Amos and Hernandez are scheduled to be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan M. Adler on Friday, Sept. 7 at 2:00 p.m.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Cory Booker, D-N.J., James Risch, R-Idaho, Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Richard Durbin, D-Ill., Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and Chris Coons, D-Del., today introduced bipartisan legislation to boost nuclear energy innovation and ensure advanced reactors can provide clean, safe, affordable, and reliable power to meet national and global energy needs.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Richard E. Zuckerman, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, announced that STEVEN M. ETKIND, a New York-licensed attorney and a Certified Public Accountant...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Morris Mora, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court to 96 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Mora was ordered to serve his federal sentence consecutive to a seven-year sentence previously imposed on a related state conviction in the 2nd Judicial District Court for the State of New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Guillermo Dahilig, of Waialua, Hawaii, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison for aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2). Following his incarceration, Dahilig will be on supervised release...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: The unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park will be temporarily closed for seasonal dust abatement beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, September 11 and will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, September 13. This routine dust abatement application happens several times during the summer on the approximately one-mile of unpaved section of the seven-mile road.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Volunteers are welcome to help spruce up the Susanville Trailhead at the Bizz Johnson National Recreation Trail, in an event to observe National Public Lands Day, Saturday, Sept. 22.

By State Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, Sept. 13, entitled “Oversight of U.S. Sanctions Policy." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: Arkmallah Hilliard Allegedly Received More than $400,000 in Fraudulent Tax Refunds from the IRS.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced sade shana holland, also known as “SHARDE RICHARDSON," 27, of Nashville, North Carolina to 42 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.