News from February 2019
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Dimeo Construction Company have established a strategic partnership to promote workplace safety for the General Dynamics Electric Boat Universal Buildings 9A/9B construction project in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Darren Bell, 19 and Altonio Benson, 27, both of Detroit, Michigan, were charged in a criminal complaint with robbery affecting interstate commerce for the robbery of a jewelry store in Hobart, Indiana, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Alex Alberto Castro received 42 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018. He was the lead defendant of a 20-defendant drug conspiracy that began in 2013 and continued until all defendants were arrested in 2017. Chief United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on Senator McConnell’s announcement of a show vote on anti-abortion legislation leading medical organizations have vocally opposed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Multiple-Convicted, Violent Felon Had Multiple Guns, Including One Stolen.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy today announced $15 million in funding for four new projects as part of its seventh OPEN+ cohort, Data-Driven Grid. This cohort will focus on new ways to apply emerging data analytics and information technologies to grid management, helping to prepare the U.S. power system for the energy sources and consumers of tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: DENVER - John Bruce Fifield, age 47, of Sedalia, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of distributing methamphetamine and marijuana to students at Woodland Park Middle School, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge William McDermott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Feb. 14, 2019, Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Jose Guzman-Ramirez to a term of imprisonment of 120 months, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Guzman-Ramirez pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - An initial trial date in March has been scheduled for a St. Joseph, Ill., man, William M. Bell, 39, who has been arrested and indicted on federal child pornography charges. Bell, a former information technology employee of Monticello, Ill., community unit school district 25, was arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. -Aaron Rouleau, 32, of Moss Point, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola to 178 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, and 120 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a felon, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: One American and One Chinese National Indicted in Tennessee for Conspiracy to Commit Theft of Trade Secrets and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, IA-On Jan. 25, 2019, Jay Robert Sebben, age 41, of Waukee, appeared before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was sentenced to 130 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. Sebben pleaded guilty in June 2018 to receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Valerie Rondeau, 59, of Effingham was sentenced to five years of probation for making false statements to obtain Social Security disability benefits, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Central Plateau Cleanup Contract (CPCC) at the Hanford Site. DOE invites proposals to perform services to achieve measurable results towards end state completion of the DOE-Office of Environmental...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Democrats introduced three homeland security bills to safeguard the rights of American citizen landowners and protect their property from eminent domain actions by the Trump Administration as it plans barrier construction in the President’s reckless pursuit of a border wall. Currently, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Ballantine man who admitted trying to break into two banks to two years in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: A man who illegally possessed a shotgun that he used to steal money was sentenced on Feb. 13, 2019, to eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Josue Eduardo Cota, 33, of Douglas, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to serve 720 months in prison. Cota’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender, if he is released from prison.
