News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant faces a five year mandatory minimum sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: Due to weather impacts on the completion of paving, the daily two-hour delay on Highway 101 planned for next week at Lake Crescent is now scheduled for July 22, 23 and 24 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. These delays are necessary for the final centerline striping of the new road surface. This work is weather dependent and will be postponed to July 29-31 if necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Little Rock man who is a self-professed former longtime gang member who turned toward community activism later in life has been sentenced to prison on drug and gun charges. On Friday, Chris Alexander, 42, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by United States District Court Judge D.P. Marshall Jr., after admitting to selling large quantities of marijuana and possessing guns.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on “Keeping The Lights On: Addressing Cyber Threats to the Grid."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Gregory Dow, 60, of Lancaster, PA was arrested and charged by Indictment with four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place. In a news conference at the Lancaster County Courthouse, U.S. Attorney McSwain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Carnegie, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with the intent to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) analyzing a proposed wild horse gather, removal, and the use of contraception on horses in the Range Creek Herd Management Area (HMA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man is facing a substantial prison sentence after a federal jury returned a guilty verdict on all five counts against him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Tentlogix, Inc., a Florida corporation headquartered in Fort Piece, Florida and three of its corporate officers, Gary Hendry, Dennis Birdsall and Kent Hughes of Martin County, have been charged by indictment with conspiring to conceal and harbor aliens for the purpose of commercial advantage. Hendry and Birdsall are also charged with making false statements to a federal agency.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Glacier National Park, partner agencies, and local search and rescue volunteers continue the search for Mark Sinclair, who was last seen on Monday afternoon.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement after the House approved by voice vote an amendment to the defense authorization bill, authored by Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), designating PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances under EPA's Superfund law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NIKKITA CHESNEY, 46, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to seven months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for her role in a Medicaid fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: On July 9, 2019, at approximately 4:30 PM (ET) law enforcement and rescue personnel responded to a 911 call of a possible drowning in White Oak Creek, which feeds into the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and makes up part of Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement in support of Rep. Ro Khanna’s amendment to the NDAA to prohibit unauthorized war with Iran...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has served an emergency order revoking the repair station certificate of Porterfield Propellers of Abernathy, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Cell phone store robber sentenced to 10 years for discharging firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - On July 10, 2019, a small lightning-caused wildfire was reported in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Named the Long Fire (#484) for its proximity to the toe of the Long Glacier, it was reported by a local air taxi service, and is approximately 20 miles north of Chitina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A federal jury found a felon guilty of stealing a car at gunpoint, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Drew H. Wrigley announced that on July 11, 2019, Chief United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Lonnie Alonzo Howard, age 48, of Bismarck, North Dakota, on charges of Possession of Firearm and Ammunition by a convicted felon, and Escape. Judge Hovland sentenced Howard to serve 17 1/2 years imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. On April 11, 2019, a federal jury found Howard guilty on both counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Beverly Hills stockbroker who worked with fugitive hedge fund manager Florian Homm was found guilty by a jury late this afternoon of 18 federal criminal charges for participating in a stock manipulation scheme designed to pump up the reported profits of hedge funds that fraudulently caused investors approximately $200 million in losses.
