News from September 2018
By EPA Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE Modernization: The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned a seven-count indictment yesterday charging Caroline County residents and a City of Richmond man with conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl and a number of other drug trafficking crimes, including distribution and possession with intent to distribute a mixture containing heroin and fentanyl, the use of which resulted in the death of Elizabeth Rosie on or about Nov. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A South Boston man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging PRESLEY AARON PELTIER, 22, with stealing four firearms from a federally licensed firearms dealer. PELTIER, who was arrested on Aug. 17, 2018, made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: For Conspiracy To Distribute Heroin. SOUTH BEND - Terron Taylor, 23 years old, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Jon E DeGuilio after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin, announced U. S. Attorney Kirsch. Taylor was sentenced to 168 months in prison followed...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “State of the Media Marketplace."
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: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that MICHAEL DEXTER BRODIE was arrested today, Sept. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: A Honduran man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to almost five months in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signaled it would dismantle a rule that would reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a global warming-inducing substance that is used in refrigerators, air conditioner and foams.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE Modernization: The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WACO, Texas - Federal and state authorities have arrested 19 individuals for their alleged roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation in the Waco area, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; Waco Police Chief Ryan Holt; and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 18, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a fifteen-count Indictment against Nickie M. Foster (age 22), Marquel L. Johnson (age 24), and Martell D. Ford (age 27), charging them with a series of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Kyle Mueller, age 24, of Thurmont, Maryland, to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for malicious use of explosive materials in connection with the detonation of a pipe bomb on a Thurmont Police Department vehicle. The sentence was imposed on Sept. 19, 2018.
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 Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Know that sickening feeling when you exit the grocery store and find your car has been banged up by a runaway shopping cart? It may one day be just a bad memory if auto body manufacturers make use of a new suite of tests developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and three...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jeffrey W. Harney, 53, of Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, for receipt of child pornography. Harney was also order to pay $18,964.93 in restitution to the victims in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 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 Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 at 3:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “State of the Media Marketplace."
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Yesterday, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, visited the Center for the Inland Bays in Rehoboth Beach and met with state and federal officials to commemorate National Estuaries Week and discuss how America's Water Infrastructure ...
