News from August 2019
By USDA Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., Aug. 20, 2019 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has analyzed the potential environmental impacts of releasing the insect Sericothrips staphylinus within the contiguous United States to control gorse (Ulex europea). Gorse ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration this week announced the conclusion of Operation Crystal Mountain, a sweeping enforcement action spanning three states. DEA special agents, working closely with their state and local counterparts throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A La Joya Housing Authority Board member has been arrested on charges of federal program bribery regarding a city public relations contract, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Bronx, NY, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold an open house event at the Pauls Valley Wild Horse and Burro Adoption Facility, in Pauls Valley, Okla., on September 13-14. The two-day event, featuring 50 wild horses, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, September 13. Adoptions will be held from noon-6...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Rehan A. Rana, 46, of Ellisville, MO, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a $100.000 fine, restitution in the amount of $751,787 to the Internal Revenue Service, and $526,285 to the Medicare Program. Rana appeared before U.S. District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Eric Kinney, of Inscription House, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Kinney had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: The visitor center at Horsehoe Bend National Military Park will be closed beginning Monday, August 26 due to rehabilitation of the park’s theater room and office areas. The park anticipates the visitor center to reopen on Monday, September 2 but urge people to check the park’s website at www.nps.gov/hobe/conditions.htm...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Tazewell county man, Eric Ingram, 31, of Washington, Ill., was sentenced today to more than 13 years (160 months) in prison for receiving child pornography using Facebook. In sentencing Ingram, U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm also ordered that Ingram remain on supervised release for eight years following his release from incarceration. Ingram will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Shawn Morse Used Campaign Contributions for His Personal Benefit.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today it will hold a meeting of the Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC). The public is welcome to attend the meeting, which will occur on Sept. 5, 2019, at 3948 S. Development Ave., Boise, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Operation Triple Beam. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Operation Triple Beam, an initiative led by the U.S. Marshals Service to track down some of the metropolitan area’s most violent and persistent offenders, resulted in hundreds of arrests and the seizure of dozens of firearms and illegal drugs. Results of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Ariana Fajardo Orshan and the Federal South Florida Human Trafficking Task Force hosted an event today to raise public awareness about the National Human Trafficking Hotline (1-888-373-7888). The training reached full capacity with more than 150 attendees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Rushmer, age 47, of Johnson City, New York, pled guilty today to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 24-year-old Galveston resident has been sentenced in Corpus Christi federal court for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute almost six kilograms of pure methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Francisco Javier Castillo Jr. pleaded guilty Nov. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeffrey Abney, age 29, of Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to seven years’ imprisonment and three years on supervised release for distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Gary McKay Sentenced for Second Federal Child Pornography Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that James Cox, 55, of Edmond Township, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 1½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing furanyl fentanyl and counterfeit drugs. Cox pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 54-year-old Corpus Christi resident and registered sex offender has been ordered to federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Robert Kirby Anderson aka Bobby Bonez pleaded guilty April 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Sussex County, New Jersey, has been charged with possessing an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, along with white supremacist and racist propaganda, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
