News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Luis Nevarez, age 20, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release on September 4, 2018 by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in collaboration with the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center (RDC), launched the U.S. Coast Guard Ready for Rescue Challenge, a $255,000 prize competition that seeks boater safety solutions that will help make it easier to find people in the water.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Luis Nevarez, age 20, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment and four years of supervised release on September 4, 2018 by United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion for conspiring to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: The Energy Department today announced nearly $4.45 million for four projects supporting early-stage research and development of tools and technologies for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) - which are manmade geothermal reservoirs. The projects seek to improve the performance and increase the cost-effectiveness of EGS through research in zonal isolation.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Starting in mid-September, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will make airspace changes in and around Cleveland and Detroit airports. These changes are part of the Cleveland-Detroit Metroplex project, which will bring updated satellite procedures to improve traffic flow.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Longgrear, 53, of Jackson, and his son, Zachary Longgrear, 29, of Madison, both pled guilty before United States District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to conspiring to reset and alter the odometers of motor vehicles and to giving or causing to be given false statements relating to odometers...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - John Bryan Murphy was sentenced today to 51 months in prison, and ordered to pay $897,464.50 in restitution for wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Subhash Jay was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $409,871 for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and filing a false tax return announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Former Arkansas State Senator Sentenced to More Than 18 Years in Prison for Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Victim Accosted While Returning Home, Forced into Neighbor’s Yard at Knifepoint and Raped There.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Aug. 29, 2018, Graham Mitchell Clark, a/k/a “Molly Poppins," pleaded guilty before the Honorable Susan Lee, U.S. Magistrate Judge, to possessing with the intent to distribute MDMA and LSD at the Bonnaroo Music Festival (Bonnaroo), in Manchester, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Derrick Hughes and Ronald Robinson with a gun trafficking conspiracy involving the sale of at least 19 firearms, including an AR-15 multi-caliber rifle. The defendants were arrested today. Hughes was arraigned this afternoon...
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 Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, HI - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is proud to announce a partnership with Mainstreet Pahoa Association and ongoing discussions to loan exhibit features from Jaggar Museum to a proposed visitor center site in downtown Pahoa.
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: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Robert P. Hoopes, 71, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and four counts of Hobbs Act extortion under color of official right. From February 2016 until December 2016, Hoopes...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO). Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Hearing on “Innovation in Surface Transportation". September 5, 2018. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). I want to welcome everyone to today’s hearing. We will hear from our non-federal partners on some of the innovations they are using...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: As a result of late summer rains and slightly cooler temperatures, on September 5, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, and State of Utah will lift fire restriction orders in the following areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Defendant Torched a Vehicle to Intimidate an Associate Suspected of Cooperating with Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2018
News Release: Nearly $1.1 Million Paid in Criminal Restitution before Guilty Pleas.
