News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: DENVER- The Drug Enforcement Administration, in partnership with the Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman, today announced the dismantling of an international cocaine trafficking organization headed by two Colorado residents. Operation White Whale launched in April 2017, and has resulted in 16 indictments, and the seizure of 134 kilograms of cocaine with a street value over $5.3 million, and $1.2 million in U.S. currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell were sentenced on weapon charges. The cases were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON- On Sept. 3, 1838, Frederick Douglass, dressed as a free African American sailor, boarded a train from East Baltimore, carrying borrowed freedom papers and, in spite of numerous close calls, arrived in New York City and began his life as free man.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Donte Deshawn Alston has been sentenced for the armed robbery of a Fifth Third Bank in Smyrna, Georgia, and for brandishing a firearm during the commission of that crime.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson delivered the following opening statement at today’s public meeting of conferees on H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 28 months’ imprisonment, followed by six years’ supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Shawn Lyberger, 35, of Kell, Illinois, was sentenced today in federal court to 25 years in prison for inducing a 10-year-old boy to engage in sex acts over webcam and possession of child pornography depicting prepubescent minors. Lyberger previously pled guilty to a three-count superseding indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia returned an indictment today charging a Hamilton, Virginia man with production of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has completed its analysis of NuLegacy Gold Corporation’s (NUG) Avocado Exploration Project and has provided the Environmental Assessment for a 15-day public comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: In Del Rio, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against 48-year-old Honduran National Leivin Pineda for allegedly assaulting a Border Patrol agent over the weekend near Eagle Pass, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is hosting listening sessions to solicit feedback on a plan to increase access to capital in rural areas by streamlining regulations for four Rural Development loan guarantee programs.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will re-open its air cargo security division...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Massachusetts Man Inspired by ISIS Sentenced for Plotting to Engage in Terrorist Activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways & Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after today’s oral arguments in Texas v. United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Markos Diderrich, 28, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 44 days in jail, with time served, followed by a three-year term of supervised release...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT -. Special Note: The Park will begin offering limited visitor access on the currently closed west side portion of the Going-to-the-Sun Road on Friday, September 7. Visitors will be required to use shuttle or tour services to travel through the closed area in order to provide for visitor...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kyle B. Martin and Matthew J. Sutton (619) 546-7726 and (619) 546-8941.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area executive and Croatian national Renato Libric, the former Chief Executive Officer of Bouxtie, Inc., pleaded guilty this afternoon to wire fraud charges related to a $1.5 million investment fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea was accepted by the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Steven Derek Dukes, age 35, of Mauk, Georgia, entered a guilty plea to Receipt of Child Pornography on September 5, 2018. The plea was entered before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Clay D. Land in...
