News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced today that ISAIAS MENDOZA-AILON, age 24, was charged on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 in a one-count bill of information for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former cheerleading coach was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman on a cruise ship bound from Long Beach to Ensenada, Mexico during the summer of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former civilian employee of the United States Navy who was a senior procurement official for Naval Base Ventura County and who received $1.2 million in illegal kickbacks was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: On July 16, 2019 at 10 a.m., the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security will hold a hearing on women and girls in the criminal justice system. This hearing will address the expanded percentages of women entering the criminal justice system nationwide, and the issues faced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery and Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - DNC Parks and Resorts at Yosemite, Inc. (Delaware North), the United States of America, and Yosemite Hospitality, LLC (Aramark) have settled the lawsuit filed by Delaware North related to Delaware North’s former concession contract at Yosemite with the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Nikko Adolfo Perez, 27, of Atwater, today to 40 years in prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for his convictions for the sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pueblo, Colorado, man convicted of False Statement During Purchase of Firearm was sentenced on July 15, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A citizen of Mexico has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal immigration laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Dear Chairman Svinicki: We write to express our deep concern with potential changes the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is contemplating regarding its Reactor Oversight Process (ROP). Specifically, we are troubled by three alterations the Commission staff is currently reviewing: 1. Replacing NRC...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: PRYOR, OK - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited HE&M Inc., a Pryor, Oklahoma-based metalworking band saw manufacturer, for exposing employees to fall, machine guarding, struck-by, and electrical hazards. HE&M faces penalties totaling $187,533.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 9, 2019, Jonathan Brownlee, age 41, of Long Pond, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 9, 2019, Jonathan Brownlee, age 41, of Long Pond, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - July 15, 2019 - Twenty individuals have been sentenced for their role in a series of methamphetamine distribution conspiracies which resulted in as much as 21 kilograms of methamphetamine and one kilogram of fentanyl being trafficked into the Middle Tennessee area and the arrest and indictment of two dozen individuals on drug trafficking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing a partial closure of the Slot Canyon Trail at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. The necessary trail improvements will be conducted July 22-24 on the last half-mile section of the Slot Canyon Trail that climbs steeply out of the canyon to the mesa top. By providing these trail improvements, the BLM is striving to protect the fragile geologic features of this area and increase visitor safety.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: The quantum logic clock-perhaps best known for showing you age faster if you stand on a stool-has climbed back to the leading performance echelons of the world’s experimental atomic clocks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: On Thursday, July 18, U.S. Attorney for the Virgin Islands Gretchen C.F. Shappert will kick off a two-day training session for HUD Community Development and Block Grant - Disaster Recovery grantees, sub-grantees and contractors, and law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Trey Hasegawa, 21, and Matthew Middleton, 26, were charged today with conspiring to interfere with commerce by robbery. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum term of 20 years imprisonment and a maximum fine of $250,000. Both Hasegawa and Middleton have been remanded to federal custody pending further proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Rex Hammond, age 55, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. upon his conviction after a 4-day jury trial in April. Mr. Hammond was convicted on 5 counts of Hobbs Act Robbery, 2 counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and 1 count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today $35 million in funding opportunities for a new DHS Center of Excellence (COE) for Terrorism Prevention and Counterterrorism Research (TPCR). Accredited United States colleges and universities are invited to submit proposals as the center lead or as an individual partner to work with the lead institution in support of the center’s activities.
