News from December 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Lt. Chris Baldridge, Marion County Sheriff's Office, Graduates from FBI National Academy.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Stole Mailed Items Worth More Than $50,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession of a Firearm.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kari Sonovich, 48, of Meadow Vista, was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison for an investment fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal grand jury indicted 46-year-old licensed Physician’s Assistant Christopher Felix Montoya and 40-year-old Nancy Almaguer for their roles in a Health Care Fraud, bribery and kickback scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 44 parcels (73,271 acres) in the Tonopah Field Office and one parcel (320 acres) in the Mount Lewis Field Office on March 24, 2020, all within Battle Mountain...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury in Boston convicted an Illinois man yesterday of defrauding insurance companies in relation to a high-priced drug made by Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc., and for using the identities of physicians to carry out the fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering the use of “blended lanes" at select airports nationwide, to include Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA). Blended lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Varna, Bulgaria, was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2019, in federal court in Pittsburgh to a period of time served after having served more than 39 months in prison following his conviction on charges of criminal conspiracy, computer fraud, and bank fraud for his role as a member of the GozNym malware cybercrime network, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, twelve men and one woman were sentenced for their roles in selling heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, and guns to undercover agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF") in 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings of the Western District of Kentucky sentenced Cleoretta Allen, 41, of Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday to serve 180 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation today announced awards totaling $1.6 million for four Title XVI water reclamation and reuse research studies. The resulting research will lead to increased water management flexibility and more reliable western water supplies. When non-federal cost-share contributions are included, these studies will accomplish more than $7.6 million in water reclamation and reuse research.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced up to $20 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Extreme Environment Materials for Power Generation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Portland Police Bureau Lt. Jay Bates Graduates from the FBI National Academy.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Chairman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (VA-03), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (MA-01), and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) sent a letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Ariel Nicole Walker, age 31 of Denver, Colorado was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 180 months (15 years) in federal prison for distribution of heroin resulting in death. Following her prison sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Aaron Kirk Woolman (58, Hagerman, ID) has been arrested and charged with soliciting child sex abuse images over the internet and via text message. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison. Woolman made his initial appearance in Boise, Idaho on Dec. 13, 2019, and currently remains in custody pending further proceedings in Jacksonville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and a quantity of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Worcester for the October 2019 robberies of the TD Bank in Worcester and the East Boston Savings Bank in Revere.