News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Kyle C. Sims, Herman A. Fields, and Peter Armour have been indicted for selling illegal guns and drugs out of a store in Riverdale, Georgia. Sims and Armour were charged with possessing a machinegun, which they sold for $1,250 in cash. Sims and Fields were charged with conspiring to distribute marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and Xanax. Sims was also charged with two counts of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands. Announced today that Yohanna Gonzalez-McFarlane, 38, of the Dominican Republic, was arrested yesterday and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of alien harboring for financial gain and one count of interstate transportation for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with making false statements on a loan application.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Bank Robbery Suspect Arrested. SDPD and FBI Arrest Robber Within One Hour of Crime. SAN DIEGO-A man suspected of robbing the U.S. Bank located at 3201 University Avenue in San Diego, California, was located and arrested yesterday. Gustavo Torres, age 32, was charged today in the San Diego Superior Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Possessed a Gun in Connection with Domestic Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The operator of a network of businesses in Lebanon and Africa whom the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated as a financier of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $50 million by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Settles Sexual Harassment Lawsuit Against New York Property Owner.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ORICK, Calif. - Redwood National and State Parks has completed its conservation planning process for two restoration projects; the Greater Prairie Creek Ecosystem Restoration Project (GPC), and the Lower B500 Road Removal Project (B500). The decision to implement each project is recorded in a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) pursuant to NEPA, and in a Notice of Determination pursuant to CEQA for the GPC project.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Optima Stantron Corp., a subsidiary of Elma Electronic Inc., for exposing employees to amputation, combustible dust, and other safety and health hazards at the Lawrenceville, Georgia, manufacturing facility. The designer and manufacturer of electronic cabinets faces $161,020 in penalties.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will publish a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register on August 9, 2019, for a draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and draft Resource Management Plan amendment to analyze and disclose environmental impacts associated with the proposed Borderlands Wind Project. If constructed, the project would generate up to 100 megawatts of power in western Catron County, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Woodbridge man with straw purchasing two firearms in November 2016 and then giving those firearms to a Boston man.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the Warren County, North Carolina, Board of Education (Warren County) that resolves a federal lawsuit brought under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) on behalf of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CLETUS JONES, 39, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An ex-physician pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for illegally prescribing and distributing the semi-synthetic opioid painkiller oxycodone to undercover operatives who visited his Victorville medical office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, 32, a Romanian national, pled guilty yesterday to an indictment charging him with conspiring to steal bank customers’ account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) by using skimming devices that were secretly installed on bank ATMs in the Capital Region.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has closed the northeast portion of the Dyea Townsite trail due to severe erosion caused by the Taiya River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted to illegally possessing a firearm was sentenced today to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it is making grant funding available to assist communities build long-term resilience for future droughts. Part of the WaterSMART Drought Response Program, this funding opportunity is for projects in 2020 and 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant Solicited Money for Purported Investments in Pre-Initial Public Stock Offerings and Used the Funds for Personal Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Filed False Campaign Disclosure Reports to Conceal His Thefts.
