News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Gunnison, CO: The National Park Service has sampled, analyzed, and determined the presence of cyanotoxins in the Iola Basin section of Blue Mesa Reservoir in concentrations that exceed safe exposure levels. Certain types of algae blooms can produce toxins called cyanotoxins, which can be harmful to humans and animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced David Wise, a/k/a Rambo and Rampage, age 23, of Baltimore, to 13 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: FBI Arrests Cave Junction Man on Charges He Threatened YouTube Employees and CEO.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jason Anthony Martinez (38, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Financial Litigation Unit. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston for failure to register as a sex offender as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Continuing his oversight to root out waste, fraud and abuse in Medicaid, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, today sent letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the U.S. Government Accountability Office seeking information about state Medicaid funding schemes that may be costing federal taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars or more.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced David Wise, a/k/a Rambo and Rampage, age 23, of Baltimore, to 13 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the armed robbery of a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Lafayette man who owned a company that purported to sell chemical free disinfection machines was indicted for stealing more than $2 million from investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: St. Louis - The first of three Atlanta-area men charged last month with stealing mail as part of an identity theft ring pleaded guilty this morning. Willie Joe Trice, 28, of Atlanta, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal mail and faces up to five years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that James O’Dell, 54, and Robin Buell, 50, both of Bennington County, VT appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington, following their arrests for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service, in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts, today announced $4.8 million in Save America’s Treasures grants to help fund 16 projects in 12 states. The funds will support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections throughout the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Thirteen were arrested this week after a federal grand jury returned indictments against 33 individuals from Florida, Mississippi, Maryland, and West Virginia on charges involving methamphetamine distribution and firearms, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Arthur Perrault poursuivi, en vertu d’un projet pour la protection des enfants « Project Safe Childhood », pour avoir prétendument agressé sexuellement un enfant à la base aérienne Kirtland et au cimetière national de Santa Fe en 1991 et 1992.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded Intafel Corp. of Cambridge, Massachusetts $167,870 to develop a virtual machine capability to protect the operations of financial services.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Sonora, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation selected today New Melones Lake Marina, LLC, to develop and operate the Glory Hole Marina at New Melones Lake. Reclamation and New Melones Lake Marina, LLC, will now begin negotiations to execute a long-term concession contract.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: DOLORES, Colo.- This week, the Bureau of Land Management signed a decision to improve parking and access to the South Sand Canyon trail system in Canyons of the Ancients National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant resided in Valdosta, Georgia and Klamath Falls, Oregon before relocating to Stockton.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-In arrest operations that stretched across the country for the past week, law enforcement officers have arrested multiple defendants in an effort to disrupt a transnational drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine in central Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Vermont woman was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for committing multiple armed bank robberies in Virginia and Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Sara Johnson, 36, of Manchester, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for federal firearms crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
