News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Nine people - including men with previous convictions for attempted murder, domestic violence and felonious assault with a firearm -- were indicted in federal court for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA -Nathan E. Hardwick IV has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme to defraud his law firm out of millions of dollars. On Oct. 12, 2018, following a four-week trial, a federal jury convicted Hardwick of wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements to a federally insured financial institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Joaquin 'El Chapo’ Guzman, Sinaloa Cartel Leader, Convicted of Running a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Other Drug-Related Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: A Flash Flood Watch continues for the entire San Francisco Bay Area and Central Coast from 10 pm this evening through Thursday morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Torrance man who led a drug ring that used couriers to traffic hundreds of pounds of cocaine from Mexico into the United States and Canada has been sentenced to 135 months in prison on federal felony drug- and money laundering-related charges.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $66 million for new genomics-based research on plants and microbes.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project recently began doubling its weekly mill tailings train shipments from two to four.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Today, GOES-17, the second of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) next-generation geostationary weather satellites, has completed its checkout phase and is now operating in the GOES West position, providing faster, more accurate, and more detailed observations used by National Weather Service forecasters to predict Pacific storm systems, severe storms, fog, wildfires, and other environmental dangers.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: All students deserve access to a safe and healthy learning environment, and America’s teachers deserve a paycheck that reflects their efforts in the classroom. This is a principle that Republicans and Democrats agree on, but our solutions differ drastically.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, Ga. - Mewael Berhane, who communicated on the Internet to arrange to meet a minor girl for sex, has been sentenced to federal prison for enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The National Park Service (NPS) has released a prospectus soliciting proposals for the award of a new concession contract to provide Interpretive Boat Tours and Small Watercraft Rental Services in Glacier National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: BERLIN, GERMANY - Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette participated in a German LNG Conference in Berlin, hosted by German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier. The Deputy Secretary and Minister Altmaier were joined by International Energy Agency Executive...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska - Applications for candidates to fill a vacant seat on the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission (SRC) are being accepted through March 31, 2019. The SRC provides a venue for local subsistence users to provide input into the management of subsistence resources...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, Edgar Arroyo-Amezquita, former Director of Facilities for the Municipality of Toa Baja was sentenced by United States District Judge Carmen C. Cerezo to serve 30 months in prison and to pay restitution in the amount of $39,999 to the Municipality of Toa Baja, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking nominations to fill three positions on its National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Selected Board members advise the BLM and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) from the perspective of a particular interest in wild horse and burro management. The call for nominations released today is for the positions that represent humane advocacy, livestock management, and wildlife management interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former contract truck driver for the post office in Rose Hill pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing items from the mail, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years in prison and six years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including “El Chapo" and “El Rapido," was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York of being a principal operator of a continuing criminal enterprise - the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel - a charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Jauwan Smith (22, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dionne Lamont Gatling, a/k/a “Cuffy," 53, of St. Charles, MO, pled guilty to various drug trafficking charges and the use of firearms resulting in death. Gatling appeared today before U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for May 17, 2019.
