News from July 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site’s Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) is looking for clues during the Fort’s Junior Ranger Day Saturday, July 20, and ‘Texting and Twitter: 1840s style’ 10 am until 3 pm Saturday, July 27. Both Saturdays are for all ages.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Leaman George Crews, III, 44, of St. James, Missouri, was sentenced to 36 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud the company he worked for - Brewer Science Incorporated (BSI), Rolla, Missouri. Crews appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Defendants were indicted on corruption-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug and firearm laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Robert Randall Deen (60, Jacksonville) and Shannon Jeanette Heller (42, Jacksonville) to three years and four months in federal prison, for possessing firearms while an unlawful user of a controlled substance (Deen), and possessing firearms as a convicted felon (Heller). Heller had pleaded guilty on Jan. 24, 2019. Deen had pleaded guilty on March 12, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Every two years, the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum (NAHOFM) selects histocial figures and organizations associated with the fight for freedom and the abolitionist movement, to be featured on a commemorative banner in their Hall of Fame in Peterboro, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Two Yorktown men were sentenced today to a total of nearly 18 years in prison for their respective roles in an armed robbery of a pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Drug Enforcement Administration are working together with our local partners to investigate the violent acts that transpired last night in Old San Juan.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Savannah River Site (SRS) protective force services contractor Centerra-SRS earned an overall “excellent" performance rating and about $3.1 million, or 96 percent of the available fee for the DOE evaluation period of Oct. 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019, according to an award fee determination scorecard.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: A few years ago, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Akron, Colorado began noticing a pattern to their wheat harvests: yields were higher in low-lying areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, John Brown, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Florida Discount Drugs, Inc., which operates as Taylor’s Pharmacy, has agreed to pay the United States $107,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly distributing schedule III and IV drugs, and committing multiple recordkeeping violations. The settlement relates to a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigation of Taylor’s Pharmacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Drug Enforcement Administration are working together with our local partners to investigate the violent acts that transpired last night in Old San Juan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement during the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law hearing on “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part II: Effects on Entrepreneurship and Innovation"...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
Release: STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A Linden, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers when they spotted a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag at University Park Airport on Monday, July 15. The 9 mm caliber gun was loaded with eight bullets.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: ST. LOUIS, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited R.V. Wagner Inc. - based in Affton, Missouri - for exposing employees to trench engulfment hazards as they installed concrete storm water pipes on Stable Road in St. Louis, Missouri. OSHA proposed penalties of $212,158 for violations of its trench safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: Defendant previously convicted of distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - The Florida Discount Drugs, Inc., which operates as Taylor’s Pharmacy, has agreed to pay the United States $107,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly distributing schedule III and IV drugs, and committing multiple recordkeeping violations. The settlement relates to a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation of Taylor’s Pharmacy.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC) announced that today marks the beginning of the peak summer travel period. TSA projects it will screen more than 851,000 people through the security checkpoints between now and Aug. 15, 2019, an average of 26,600 per day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The owner of a medical and dental billing company was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for her role in committing more than $2 million in health care fraud.
