News from September 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) awarded $200,000 to Quanergy Systems, Inc, a Sunnyvale, California-based start-up, to develop LiDAR-based technology to enhance Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) counting and measuring capabilities in airport security and customs processing queues.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Garrion McCellan, age 30, of Baltimore today to 25 years in prison, followed by 8.5 years of supervised release, for a drug conspiracy and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime causing death. McCellan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Andrew Boyd, Jr., 33, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 50 months in prison, followed by a five-year term of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, and possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to distribute. Boyd pleaded guilty to these charges on June 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Kevin Mitchell, age 32, was sentenced in federal court today in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of robbery. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Mitchell to 151 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Mitchell will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
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: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Commander Todd J. Turner of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 814, will hold a press conference at 11:00 AM, TODAY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2018, at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Albuquerque, N.M., to make a significant law enforcement announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson for the District of New Mexico, Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI Albuquerque Division and Special Agent in Charge Nicholas J. Dorval of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 814, announced today that Arthur Perrault has been extradited from Morocco to the United States to face federal child sexual abuse charges in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Alexis Ayala, 40, and Wilfredo Perez, 38, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to six years in prison and six years of supervised release, and one year in prison and three years of supervised release, respectively, on firearms and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Ian Michael Toothman, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who used false identification documents to obtain a job was sentenced today to more than two months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant previously deported after serving sentence for federal drug conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The West Rim Trail, including the route to Angels Landing, will reopen at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. The popular trail has been closed since an intense thunderstorm on July 11, 2018, which caused flooding, mudslides, and rockfalls.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management announced today selections for three open positions on its nine-member National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Ms. Celeste Carlisle of Esparto, California, has been appointed to the category of wild horse and burro advocacy; Dr. Thomas Lenz of Louisburg...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is beginning work on emergency stabilization projects aimed at reducing post fire damage and threats to public safety on public lands burned in the Carr Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Alberto Martinez-Salcido today to a term of time served following a 13-month period of incarceration. He received a two-year term of supervised release. Martinez-Salcido pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering and Use of Facilities in Interstate Commerce in Aid of Racketeering, both felony offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Michael (also known as Mickey) A. Prisley, 53, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for participating in a conspiracy to file hundreds of false income tax returns and assisting co-conspirators in obtaining a quarter of a million dollars in false refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office has issued the Record of Decision (ROD) for GRP Gold Rock, LLC’s Gold Rock Mine Project in rural eastern Nevada. The decision authorizes the mining operator to re-open and expand the existing Easy Junior Mine. The Gold Rock...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Albuquerque Man Charged with Attempted Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara has sentenced Stevie Cavazos (24, Hillsborough County) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The sentence was the highest permissible under the relevant statute. The court also ordered Cavazos to forfeit the firearms and ammunition that he had possessed, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Cavazos pleaded guilty on June 8, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 36-year-old Norma Juarez Taha to 151 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for her role in connection with the kidnapping of a 20-year-old female in El Paso in February 2017, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr.
