News from August 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A black-market arms dealer with a long history of brokering machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank armaments - and who was found guilty last year in a scheme to sell and use surface-to-air missiles - has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: On Tuesday, Aug. 27, historian John Weaver will give a presentation at Fort Stanwix National Monument discussing the anatomy and design of Fort Stanwix. Like many early American forts, geometry and intentional design created multiple levels of defense and made it very hard for attackers to overrun the fort. This free history talk will take place inside Fort Stanwix at 1 p.m. inside the fort at the Gregg Building.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released the draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for a proposed shooting sports project on public lands within the Arizona State Office’s Phoenix District during National Sport Shooting Month. The EA evaluates a variety of active management options to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Seventeen people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to bring large amounts of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine and marijuana from California to the Cleveland area and sell the drugs here.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP) contractor that provides analysis and testing services at the Hanford Site’s 222-S Laboratory was recently awarded the DOE Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) Star status for its safety and employee involvement programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Eric Kinney, of Inscription House, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Kinney had previously pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Troy Wragg, 37, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced today to 22 years in prison and $54 million restitution by United States District Judge Joel H. Slomsky for perpetrating two fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Hartselle man for distributing a substance laced with fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Highlands, N.J. - Thanks to the shared stewardship of Gateway’s visitors, plovers at Sandy Hook have had another successful breeding season. Forty one nesting plover pairs fledged 53 chicks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 24-year-old Galveston resident has been sentenced in Corpus Christi federal court for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute almost six kilograms of pure methamphetamine, announced United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, Houston Division, and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Francisco Javier Castillo, Jr. pleaded guilty Nov. 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that a local woman has been indicted for a tax fraud scheme targeting Somali refugees in the Portland Metropolitan Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Rushmer, age 47, of Johnson City, New York, pled guilty today to one count of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A black-market arms dealer with a long history of brokering machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank armaments - and who was found guilty last year in a scheme to sell and use surface-to-air missiles - has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Our Lady Star of the Sea Cultural Center. 545 A1A North. Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida 32082. “Be Smart with your Kids’ Smartphone" presentations educate parents, caregivers, and teachers and administrators on the latest social media apps that offenders are using to target and manipulate...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Telemarketer Sentenced to Prison in Connection with $10 Million International Fraudulent Sweepstakes Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
Release: CANTON, N.Y. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day recruitment event on Wednesday, September 4, to assist individuals applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) with TSA to work at either Ogdensburg or Massena International Airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Bronx, NY, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: Beginning on Aug. 21, 2019, the United States Secret Service (USSS) and the National Park Service (NPS) will expand the Pennsylvania Avenue NW closure in front of the White House. Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed from West Executive Avenue to East Executive Avenue for public safety during construction of the new fence. Lafayette Park, the north sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue, Jackson Place NW and Madison Place NW will remain open to pedestrians and cyclists.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) recently conducted a full-scale exercise with local emergency response personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 20, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A jury has convicted a former Jacksonville, Ill., resident for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns and for filing false tax returns. On Friday afternoon, Aug. 16, 2019, a jury deliberated approximately two hours before returning guilty verdicts on all charges against West Mpetshi (ma-pet-shē). Sentencing is scheduled on Dec. 13, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough.
