News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - On Sunday, Sept. 30, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., the Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District, will host a National Public Lands Day event at the Mill Creek Campground just south of Battle Mountain. National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest, single-day...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Brandon Jock’s Crimes Involved Over 13,000 Images.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Benjamin J. Varieur, age 33, of Saratoga Springs, New York, and formerly of Brunswick, New York, pled guilty today to receiving child pornography via an encrypted messaging application on his phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: FBI Richmond’s Central Virginia Violent Crimes Task Force Investigates and Offers a Reward Associated with a 2015 Richmond Murder as Part of a Cold Case Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Darrin Paul George, age 30, of Camden, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, a violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(a)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Three Massachusetts men were charged today in federal court in Boston in connection with a 10-year mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen fraudulent loan transactions and $4.3 million in losses to lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Rashica Shaguana Ford (39, Sarasota) to nine years and two months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit arson. A federal jury found Ford guilty on June 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Felix Martinez-Melquisdes, age 35, of West Columbia, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to possessing a firearm while being an illegal alien in the United States, a violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Feliciano Ochoa Reyes, 34, of Mexico and Modesto, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 17 and a half years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Antoine Q. Washington, a 29 year old resident of Monroe, Louisiana was sentenced to 30 months of incarceration for illegal possession of two firearms after being convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released today the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement for the California WaterFix. The document outlines several changes proposed by the California Department of Water Resources, the state lead agency for the California WaterFix, which require additional analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - Due to extreme fire behavior of the Roosevelt Fire, temporary emergency fire area closures are in effect, as of Sept. 20, for all public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pinedale Field Office within designated boundaries (see attached map). This closure order is being...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Serial Armed Robber Identified. FBI Atlanta wants to thank the news media and Covington Police Department for helping us identify an armed robbery suspect who was targeting dollar stores in the Atlanta area. After seeing pictures of the unidentified suspect in the news, Covington police detectives believed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A North Smithfield, R.I., man who repeatedly sent emails and text messages to a former girlfriend threatening, in specific and horrifying detail, to harm or kill her and her family was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison on cyberstalking charges, announced United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch and Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Paul Grisham Smith, 44, of Grass Valley, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to five years in prison for unlawful manufacturing and dealing in firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Salt Lake City - The Bureau of Reclamation today awarded a five-year, $30 million blanket purchase agreement to multiple vendors to obtain a full range of environmental, cultural and related services for projects located within the Upper Colorado Region states of Arizona, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Texas and Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced Sarah Louise Branch, 37, of New South Wales, Australia was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 70 days in prison for encouraging and inducing illegal entry of Benigno Godinez-Cortez into the United States on July 10, 2018. Ms. Branch and M. Godinez-Cortez pled guilty on Aug. 14, 2018 in U.S. District Court to immigration felony offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Washington - On July 13, 2018, Stockland Livestock Auction Inc. (Stockland), Spokane, Wash., waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and paid a penalty of $1,925 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 21, 2018 - USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue yesterday hosted a roundtable with local school officials to learn more about how USDA can best assist and enable their efforts to serve nutritious meals to our nation’s children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: After Committing Four Murders in a Central Islip Park, Defendant Fled to Virginia and Maryland Where He Continued His Association with the MS-13.
