News from January 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - In October of 2018 the National Park Service (NPS) announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the lease of the Nauset Knoll Motor Lodge within Cape Cod National Seashore. The due date for the receipt of proposals has been extended until Feb. 20, 2019, and the NPS has also determined the minimum rent for the property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced that on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019, Robert Klyvert, 47, of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge George Cannon, Jr., to distribution of crack cocaine. On Jan. 29, 2019, Nolly King Jr., 36, pleaded guilty to distribution of crack cocaine and Thaddeus Hendricks, 39, both of St. Croix, pleaded guilty to distribution of cocaine, before Judge Cannon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Nicholas J. Patten, 27, of Williston, Vermont pleaded guilty on Tuesday to drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a masked and armed bank robbery.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
Release: Washington - Due to the recent lapse in federal funding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) has not published a weekly export sales report since Dec. 20, 2018. FAS has resumed daily reporting of export sales and will implement the following schedule to bring weekly reporting up to date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: A Fort Pierce resident was sentenced to prison yesterday for making ISIS related threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Law enforcement seized more than a kilo of suspected heroin and fentanyl; defendants face 10 year mandatory minimum sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin: We write to express our serious concern regarding unilateral action by foreign countries to establish digital services taxes designed to discriminate against U.S.-based multinational companies. It is important that you make clear to the representatives of these countries the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Roberto Oquendo (37, Brevard County) today pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison on each count.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today announced an extensive effort to map and further disrupt, through victim notifications, the Joanap botnet - a global network of numerous infected computers under the control of North Korean hackers that was used to facilitate other malicious cyber activities.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Three indictments were unsealed Wednesday, charging eight individuals from around the country with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and harboring aliens for profit, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Six of the defendants were arrested in metro Detroit. Two others were arrested in Lake Mary, Florida; and Culpeper, Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Criminal Contempt.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jessie Lee Ross, age 44, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was sentenced to 2 years’ probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $4,328.20 for Embezzlement And Theft From an Indian Tribal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Kyle Stephen Thompson, age 33, of Burtonsville, Maryland, to 420 years in federal prison concurrent to the state sentence to be imposed, and lifetime supervised release for his conviction on 18 counts of production of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owner of the now-closed Beta Chem Laboratory in Lenexa has been ordered to pay $544,287 in restitution for storing hazardous waste without a license, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Connecticut little league vice president and coach arrested on Jan. 25, 2019, by members of the Rhode Island State Police Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, and charged in state court with indecent solicitation of a child and disseminating and possessing child pornography...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: It is my privilege to welcome all of you to the first meeting of our conference committee on Homeland Security appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Jan. 30, 2019 - Harold Powell, aka “Goddi," 31, of Gallatin, Tennessee, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to federal firearms and robbery charges relating to a violent crime spree in 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. The plea agreement calls for a 22-year prison sentence, if approved by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to making a bomb threat at the Veterans Affairs Clinic in Mount Vernon, Mo.
