News from August 2019
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the open period to apply for 2019 funding for the National Animal Disease Preparedness and Response Program (NADPRP) and the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN). The 2018 Farm Bill ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jesse Allen Blake, age 24, of Waverly, New York, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 22, 2019, with threats against the President of the United States and mailing a threatening communication.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Clifford Randell Montague, 53, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty Friday before U.S. District Sul Ozerden to bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Santa Ana man who admitted his role in a scheme that used fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to manufacture and sell counterfeit pharmaceutical pills designed to look like brand-name oxycodone pills was sentenced this morning to 210 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: A North Olmsted man was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, N-Ethyl Pentalone (an analogue to MDMA or “molly") and marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: MIAMI - Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida pled guilty on Aug. 23, 2019, to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cody Swick, of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 25 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: Military veterans, activity duty military members and their families can enjoy a day of fishing in a specially stocked pond, when the Bureau of Land Management Redding Field Office hosts its annual Veterans Fishing Day, Saturday, Sept. 7, at the Sacramento River Bend Outstanding Natural Area, north of Red Bluff.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Desmon Johnson, of Parkville, Maryland, was sentenced today to 78 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: The owner and operator will pay a total criminal fine of $3,000,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A northern Nevada doctor specializing in family medicine was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison and ordered to pay a $125,000 fine for overprescribing highly addictive pain pills Oxycodone and Hydrocodone not for a legitimate medical purpose, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Russell Richardson, the former Director of Security for DeKalb Medical Center, has been charged with stealing firearms meant for security personnel and then illegally selling those guns for profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Kevin Dean McCoy, 28, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 15 years in prison. Silvester Ruelas, 50, of Peoria, Ariz., was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison. Two other co-defendants, Amber Worrell and Peggy Gomez, were...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Gregerson Fire in the Delamar Mountains Wilderness, about 20 miles southeast of Alamo, in Lincoln County, Nev., is 90-percent contained. Full containment is anticipated by this evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 22, of Asheville, N.C., has pleaded guilty to one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse resulting in death. U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Carleton Metcalf accepted Pendergraft’s guilty plea in federal court in Asheville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jesse Allen Blake, age 24, of Waverly, New York, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Aug. 22, 2019, with threats against the President of the United States and mailing a threatening communication.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Three men prosecuted as part of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.) were sentenced in federal court in Huntington today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A defendant pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today after law enforcement officials discovered more than 30 kilograms of fentanyl, heroin and cocaine, as well as nearly $75,000 in cash, in his motorcycle.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $21.4 million in funding for research in Quantum Information Science (QIS) related to both particle physics and fusion energy sciences.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will soon conduct a large prescribed fire in the vicinity of Juniper Mountain, located 37 miles south of Silver City. The Trout Springs Prescribed Fire is expected to take place over five to seven days between Sept. 9-30, 2019, depending on weather conditions and regional wildfire activity.
