News from August 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
Release: PITTSBURGH - This is expected to be one of the busiest years on record for the Transportation Security Administration and officials want to ensure the most efficient security checkpoint experience for travelers flying out of Pittsburgh International Airport. So officials are sharing a handful of tips and tools to make sure that passengers aren’t bringing prohibited items with them to the airport.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - To support increased production of Alaskan energy resources and achieving energy dominance, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Willow Master Development Plan (MDP) in the Bear Tooth Unit (BTU) in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - In the early morning hours of Aug. 22, 2019, the U.S. Marshals Service arrested Christopher Hornbeck. Hornbeck was wanted by the State of Vermont for a 2013 armed robbery on a pharmacy in Middlebury.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: DALLAS - A previously convicted North Texas sexual predator was sentenced Friday to 50 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Aug. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A Madison County business owner has been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion. Gary.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register for the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Mount Hope Mine Project about 23 miles northwest of the town of Eureka. Today’s publication opens a 30-day review period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A St. Louis-area dentist has been charged with executing a wide-ranging health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MACON - A Macon, Georgia man who admitted to making and concealing a small, single-round gun in the shape of a pen entered a guilty plea to a federal firearm charge, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Billy Christopher Evans, 28, of Macon, Georgia...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that a Federal grand jury in Greenville has returned a three count indictment charging MORRIS COOPER, age 62 of Fayetteville, with bribery and theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that after an eight-day trial, a federal jury convicted Glenn Pernell, 41, his sister Whitney Pernell, 29, and their cousin Fatima Ford, 33, all of Marion County, and Santerrio Smith, 31, and Terrence Dunlap, 25, of Columbia, on drug trafficking charges. These five defendants were charged along with 11 others in a 53-count Superseding Indictment alleging drug conspiracy and related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury returned a verdict today against Gustavo Araujo Lerma, 64, finding him guilty of one count of aggravated identity theft, one count of passport fraud, and five counts of voting by an alien, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason Dunn announces that Emilio Testa, age 32, an Australian residing in Boulder, Colorado, will now be going to prison after being sentenced for money laundering with Bitcoin. United States District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore sentenced Testa to serve one year and a day in prison, followed by twelve months on supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA - A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has awarded $1,047,399 in lost wages and punitive damages to two former employees of a Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania, manufacturer after a jury found the company and its owner fired them in retaliation for their participation in a federal safety investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Westwood man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges for owning and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business where he exchanged up to $25 million in cash and virtual currency for individuals, including Darknet drug dealers and other criminals - some of whom used his Bitcoin ATM kiosk.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant Arrested Locally for Domestic Disturbance; Previously Removed from U.S. on Several Occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jamal Jackson, 40, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced on August 21 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to six years in prison for conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Jackson pleaded guilty to this charge on June 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Robert Pratersch (58, Kissimmee) to 15 months in federal prison for threatening a federal official and interstate transmission of a threat to injure. A federal jury had found Pratersch guilty on April 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Defendant Falsified Deductions on more than a Thousand Tax Returns over Four Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Josue Cardona-Soto, 38, of Puerto Rico, and Virgen Perez-Jurado, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, over five kilograms of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life in prison, and a $10,000,000 fine.
