News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Elder Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: A man from Shoreline, Washington was sentenced yesterday to 55 years’ imprisonment for his role in an international child pornography ring, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two Trenton police officers have been charged with civil rights and obstruction of justice charges for allegedly assaulting a man they were arresting, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-Fraudsters have been trying to steal your identity and personally identifiable information-or PII-for years. Your PII can include your name, Social Security number, date of birth, or financial information. In 2018, personal data breaches were the number one reported cybercrime in Arizona with more than 1,300 people filing such complaints with IC3.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Nelcon Inc. - a highway contractor based in Kalispell, Montana - for exposing workers to burns and falls at a mobile asphalt-mixing plant in Laurel, Montana. The company faces $261,418 in penalties for 23 serious violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for RICO conspiracy and multiple attempted murders on behalf of the Nine Trey Gangsters, a violent Bloods street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Joseph Daniel Land, 48, of Beaumont, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 84 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the Buildings Energy Efficiency Frontiers & Innovation Technologies (BENEFIT) 2019 Funding Opportunity (FOA) for up to $47 million for innovative technologies to make energy more affordable.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelly Wright-Meyers, of West Union, West Virginia, and Ashley Wagner, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, have admitted to their involvement in methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and visitors...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Mark Russell (a.k.a. “Snake"), 61, of Duxbury, Vermont, to time-served for violating the federal “Crack House Statute." This statute prohibits making a place, such...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Eagle Rock resident was arrested this morning on federal fraud and money laundering charges stemming from a scheme that sold “ancient slag," a mining waste byproduct that supposedly contained precious metals.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - Randy Anderson has logged more than four million miles in a professional driving career that began in 1967, when he was fresh out of high school.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Ramah, NM - On Friday, May 10th at 8:00 p.m., the National Park Service at El Morro National Monument and the El Morro Area Arts Council invite you to enjoy a special cultural event, an evening of Zuni cosmology. The event will be held at the Old School Gallery, located on Hwy. 53 at Mile Marker 46, 1 mile east of El Morro National Monument and 42 miles south and west of Grants and I-40.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - DOE’s Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) transported the first defense-generated transuranic (TRU) waste shipment received at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan t (WIPP) in 1999. Today EM’s Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) works closely with WIPP to achieve its central goal of removing legacy waste from the lab site.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members and...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) plans to conduct a prescribed fire in two burn units this spring, and as soon as this week, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). This is the first broadcast (wide area) prescribed fire to ever be held at the National Lakeshore and is the start...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: A man from Shoreline, Washington was sentenced yesterday to 55 years’ imprisonment for his role in an international child pornography ring, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to the Trump administration's continued refusal to comply with House Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., request for President Donald Trump’s tax returns...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, and immediately following, was sentenced to 13 months in prison and three years’ supervised release, consecutive to the current prison term he is serving, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
