News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: BURLEY, Idaho - Over the weekend, BLM Archaeologist Luke Hittner joined Eagle Scout hopeful Clayton Koyle and 12 volunteers to place new Carsonite markers along a 2-mile section of the California Trail’s historic Hudspeth Cutoff, east of Malta. The project’s timing coincides perfectly with both National...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Kenneth Patrick Gaughan, age 40, of Washington, D.C., on mail fraud charges arising from a scheme to embezzle funds from the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington (ADW), where he was employed as Assistant Superintendent. The indictment was returned on Sept. 24, 2018, and unsealed today upon Gaughan’s arrest.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: STRONG CITY, Kansas: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is pleased to announce the upcoming annual Prairie Harvest Festival on October 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, a federal jury found Joseph M. Crocco, 42, of Poughkeepsie, New York, guilty of robbing a credit union after a two-day trial.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: The president has made it a practice to get up in front of cameras, tout new trade deals, and reap splashy headlines, but those announcements are consistently hollow and the results underwhelming.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A confirmed MS-13 gang member and two Martinsburg men have admitted to their involvement with a multi-state drug trafficking operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: A former Kent State University professor was sentenced to five months in prison to be followed by five months of house arrest for lying to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury charged eight members of an organized fraud ring based in Detroit with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and aggravated identity theft in a twenty-three count indictment, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man has been extradited from Mexico back to the United States to face charges filed against him in 2011 for stealing approximately $4.3 million dollars belonging to KeyBank.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Judge William H. Steele sentenced Russell Curtis Odom on Sept. 18, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 60 months followed by 4 years of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21 USC § 841(a)(1). The defendant previously plead guilty to the offense on June 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Two Threats Were Directed at United States Senators.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eleven were arrested today after a federal grand jury returned an indictment against 17 individuals from Michigan and West Virginia on charges involving heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution, as well as firearms, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Adrian Bryce Spotted Horse, Sr., age 39, of Wakpala, South Dakota, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for his conviction of Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man appeared in federal court today on charges that he allegedly attempted to rob a city barbershop in May 2018, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - Cape Lookout National Seashore’s Visitor Information Center in Beaufort will resume regular hours of operation from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., on Thursday, September 27. All other park facilities remain closed, no reopening schedule has been identified at this time. Facilities will reopen as grounds and structures are stabilized and deemed safe for the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline yesterday to serve two years in federal prison for stealing approximately 400 cell phones from the U.S. mail, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces $2.7 million in funding for nine projects that fall under the High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Chesterfield County man today on charges of attempted sex trafficking of a minor, receipt of child pornography, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant Promised to Invest in Binary Options, but Instead Stole Customers’ Money for His Personal Use and to Repay Others He Had Duped into Investing with Him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain was honored to speak yesterday at the conference of the NASA Office of Inspector General in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. U.S. Attorney McSwain’s remarks are below.
