News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Brian J. Wilson, an inmate in Atlanta’s U.S. Penitentiary has been charged with possessing a contraband cell phone that he used to post photographs to and live stream content onto a social media platform from his prison cell.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain and Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Harpster of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division announced that their offices and law enforcement partners are asking for the public's assistance to identify potential victims of Robert Dean Caesar, 56, most recently...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: A man traveling from Detroit, Michigan to Mason City, IA to deliver heroin was sentenced Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 to more than 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: A Boardman man was indicted in federal court for making threats against federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Anderson, 38, Centerville, Minnesota, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 16, by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 90 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Anderson pleaded guilty to this charge on April 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Marcus Theodore Hill, 30, of Bladenboro to 84 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. HILL pled guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on March 18, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PRINEVILLE, Ore. - The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the final phase of the John Day Wild and Scenic River land acquisition, which consists of transferring 11,149 acres from the Western Rivers Conservancy. Adding these lands to public ownership creates another...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
Release: Energy Star is a joint Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE) program with a mission of providing information to consumers and businesses to increase energy efficiency and cost savings.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent oversight letters to the four dominant e-cigarette manufacturers today requesting information on each of the companies’ research into the public health impacts of their products, their marketing practices, and their role in the promotion of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. -Mansoor Ghaleb, age 30, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute synthetic cannabinoids.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Canadian telemarketer has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for conning American senior citizens out of their money by impersonating their grandchildren over the telephone and asking for financial help to get their purportedly distressed relatives out of trouble in a foreign country.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE), Bruce J. Walker, announced the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first “Electricity Industry Technology and Practices Innovation Challenge” (EITPIC). The challenge tapped into American ingenuity for ideas on how to make the nation’s electric grid stronger and more resilient.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Writer/photographer and Mancos resident, Linda Rose, is a writer and photographer. She has had a full career working in various aspects of the art world from freelance artist to educator. Her work currently focuses on photo/journal books that feature travels to various parts of the world as well as books...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked Alaskan Joe Balash, who will be stepping down from his position as Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the Department of the Interior at the end of the month.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Heavy rains the week of August 4th, and especially the afternoon of August 8th, contributed to the failure of a section of retaining wall along Volcano Road, the only access to the top of Capulin Volcano. Overall a half mile of road was covered with debris and has some extent of retaining wall damage due to water flowing over the downhill edge of the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James Counterman, age 56, of Canadensis, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 144 months’ imprisonment followed by ten years’ supervised release, by U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Agents Arrest 17 Defendants, Execute 14 Search Warrants, and Seize More Than 16 Pounds of Heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced MICHAEL AHMED, 33, of Raleigh to 80 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Myra Griffin Fontenot, 43, of Ville Platte, Louisiana, was sentenced Tuesday to 14 months in prison and one year of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell for filing a false tax returning and failing to pay more than $200,000 in taxes. Fontenot was also ordered to pay $213,958.96 restitution in addition to $28,624.36 in interest. She previously pleaded guilty on May 14, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
