News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Today, the Central Nebraska Drug and Safe Streets Task Force conducted a multiple agency operation in the Central Nebraska region that led to the federal arrests of 12 individuals for charges including possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, distribution of methamphetamine, and conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Yuma, AZ - Reclamation's Yuma Area Office is releasing the Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) for public review/comment on the proposed construction of the Cibola Old Channel Restoration Project along the lower Colorado River near Walters Camp.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, UTAH - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a public meeting in Vernal, Utah, on Sept. 26 to solicit comments regarding the environmental impacts of the Green River Block water exchange contract. This contract, between Reclamation and the State of Utah, would facilitate the development of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An employee of a restaurant-reservation company used fake names and email addresses to create hundreds of fraudulent restaurant bookings through a competitor’s system, according to a criminal charge filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Austin McMahill, age 30, of Wideman, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by five years of supervised release on one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: MACON: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Charlie Lee Harvey, Jr., age 45, of Byron, Georgia was sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine before U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell in Macon, Georgia on Sept. 19, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman was sentenced to 24 months in prison today for a federal drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Baylee Gibson, age 19, of Bench Road, previously pled guilty in April 2018 to distribution of 5 grams or more of methamphetamine. Stuart praised the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Reps. Jared Huffman and Alan Lowenthal, both Democrats of California, wrote to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Deputy Director Brian Steed this morning urging him to maintain critical wildlife and caribou habitat protections near Teshekpuk Lake on Alaska’s North Slope, which a new ConocoPhillips master plan targets for aggressive development despite existing restrictions in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The leader of a Lawrence-based heroin and fentanyl drug trafficking organization pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with orchestrating a wide-ranging operation that distributed multiple kilos of fentanyl and cocaine to customers in Lawrence and surrounding areas - including New Hampshire and Maine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Houston woman has been ordered to prison following her conviction of one count each of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Yanette Rodriguez Acosta aka Yanette Patino pleaded guilty Feb. 22, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting a subpoena to compel the Director of Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to testify at a deposition regarding actions taken by OPM to comply with a federal court order striking down portions of President Trump’s Executive Orders that sought to attack federal employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Steven Talbot, 32, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to ten years in prison and eight years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on March 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Reviewing Wetterling Investigative Documents for Release under the Freedom of Information Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The Texas A&M Research Foundation (TAMRF) has agreed to pay the United States $750,000 to resolve claims that the Foundation submitted improper charges to federal grants, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a contract to provide a variety of services at the Hanford Site, called the Hanford Mission Essential Services Contract (HMESC). The total estimated value of the contract ranges from $4-6 billion over a period of up to ten years, including option periods. The current Mission Support contract at Hanford held by Mission Support Alliance expires on May 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant stole over $230,000 in Social Security retirement benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Thomas Lawton Evans Jr., 37, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, pled guilty to all counts contained in a three count federal indictment. Count One charged Kidnapping Involving a Person Under the Age of 18, a violation...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Raleigh, N.C. - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) is responding to national parks impacted by Hurricane Florence. At this time, 40 National Park Service employees from 22 parks and 18 states and the District of Columbia are assigned to the incident. The public is discouraged from traveling to or entering these national parks due to safety concerns during stabilization operations.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Angelo arrested a Peruvian national Monday wanted in Peru in connection with the 1991 “Santa Barbara Massacre."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito announced federal and local law enforcement authorities have charged six people for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Newark.
