News from September 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Sept. 25, 2018, Ramon Antonio Monreal-Rodriguez, 37, of Vail, Ariz., a U.S. Border Patrol agent assigned to the Three Points, Ariz. station, was arrested for conspiracy to make false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms and aiding and abetting the commission of such offenses.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is optimistic about a National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) -developed technology that promises to increase capacity and reduce delays, fuel burn and emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Peer-to-peer lending company LendingClub Corporation of San Francisco, Calif., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA), announced United States Attorney Alex...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lynn men were arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two MCI-Cedar Junction inmates, and the wife and mother of one of the inmates, were charged in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin D. Waczkowski, 34, of Elma, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Michael Thomas, 41 years old, of Kouts, Indiana, was found guilty after a four-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, announced U. S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Activities Planned at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in October.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Dennis Dickey, 37, of Tucson, Ariz., pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of U.S. Forest Service regulations for igniting the Sawmill Fire, which caused more than $8 million worth of damage in April 2017. The Court scheduled a sentencing hearing for October 9, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an inmate has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a scheme to smuggle heroin into the Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Goose Creek Correctional Center (GCCC) for distribution to inmates in April 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDALL BARNES, age 22, of Chalmette, was charged in a five-count indictment on Sept. 27, 2018 by a federal grand jury.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today in support of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDALL BARNES, age 22, of Chalmette, was charged in a five-count indictment on Sept. 27, 2018 by a federal grand jury.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Alleged Conspiracy Trafficked Methamphetamine between California and Southwest Virginia/Northeast Tennessee/Georgia.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Charles McCreary, age 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Theresa Springmann after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Carol Philbin, 66, of St. George, Vermont, appeared today in federal district court in Burlington to answer to charges that, following her mother’s death in July 2009, Philbin unlawfully collected $93,345 in Social Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that three New Haven men have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to various charges related to their roles in a violent street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Nicholasville, Ky., men were sentenced today for using social media to harass and intimidate an acquaintance, with threats of a prospective shooting at a Jessamine County school.

By EPA Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, the House passed sweeping, bipartisan legislation to combat the opioid crisis. H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), now heads to the Senate for a final vote and then to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2018
News Release: Dominican National Sentenced to Prison for his Involvement in National Conspiracy to Sell Identity Documents to Illegal Aliens.