News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Jerrinon Tate, 28, of St. Louis, MO, sentenced to a term of fourteen years in federal prison for brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pompano Beach, Florida, has been sentenced for two armed robberies of Pittsburgh area banks, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer six parcels, totaling 4,259 acres in Jackson, Moffat, and Rio Blanco counties at its December 2019 quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This notice initiates a 30-day public comment period on associated environmental documents that ends Sept. 12, 2019. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Lex Bennett Goodwin, 34, of Pocatello, was sentenced to 100 years in federal prison for producing, transporting, and possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also sentenced Goodwin to a lifetime of supervised release...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center and Nevada Humanities will present a Humanities on the Road evening program, “Songbird: Telling the Paiute Story."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - A Macon, Georgia resident with a violent criminal history in Muscogee County, Georgia was sentenced to 156 months in federal prison for gun and drug charges, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Johmar Chandler, 40, of Macon, Georgia...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce Astronomy Night on Saturday, Aug. 24, at the Harkers Island Visitor Center, from 8:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of minors, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Warner Antonio Portillo, age 34, of Manassas, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to produce and transfer identification documents without lawful authority, specifically, Maryland driver’s licenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WILMER A. GARCIA-LOPEZ, age 22, a native of Guatemala, was charged on August 8, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with Illegally using a Social Security number in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Colchester, Connecticut, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on July 22, 2019, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A former gang member with eight prior felony convictions and a prior conviction for domestic battery was sentenced yesterday to six years and six months for unlawful possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that five different defendants appeared in federal court during the past week to plead guilty to traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of having sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the Allenwood United States Penitentiary in Allenwood, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of infliction of bodily injury, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Taylor Morris, age 21, was sentenced in federal court Monday in Omaha, Nebraska, for assault causing serious bodily injury. Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Morris to 18 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Morris will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with importing and selling counterfeit sports apparel, including Celtics and other NBA jerseys, as well as NFL and NCAA jerseys.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has signed a contract valued at $600 million with Cray Inc. to build NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer, “El Capitan," with an anticipated delivery in late 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney's Office is seeking more than $17 million in money judgments against the seven defendants convicted in the Forest Park Medical Center bribery trial in April, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: FBI is Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Wilton Manors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man today admitted participating in a conspiracy to bill health insurance companies for medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
