News published on Federal Newswire in July 2019

News from July 2019


News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ethan Rumery, 24, of Pittsfield, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to violate the federal firearms laws. The defendant pled guilty on Feb. 25, 2019.


Seattle Tech Worker Arrested for Data Theft Involving Large Financial Services Company

News Release: A former Seattle technology company software engineer was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging computer fraud and abuse for an intrusion on the stored data of Capital One Financial Corporation, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. PAIGE A. THOMPSON a/k/a erratic, 33, made her initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle today and was ordered detained pending a hearing on Aug. 1, 2019.


FBI Seeking Information From a Bank Robbery in Miami

News Release: FBI Seeking Information From a Bank Robbery in Miami.


Judge Sentences Erie Man to More Than 6 Years in Prison for Violating Laws Relating to the Sexual Exploitation of Children

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to six years and eight months (80 months) in prison, followed by five years supervised release and ordered to pay $1,500 in restitution on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: A 66-year-old Seattle resident was arrested this morning for illegally possessing approximately 20 firearms following the serving of a search warrant at a home he owns, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. PARK QUAN was arrested after FBI agents investigating a data theft served a search warrant on...


News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Zachary Morneault, 35, of Levant, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 16 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making false statements to a federal firearms dealer. The defendant pled guilty on Oct. 2, 2018.



Release: BALTIMORE - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport detected an air-to-ground missile tube in a man’s checked luggage early this morning, July 29.


News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A “full patch" member of the Rhode Island chapter of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club, arrested during a Project Safe Neighborhoods drug trafficking investigation by members of the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine...


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Natario Bernard Peterson (22, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine. Peterson had pleaded guilty on March 27, 2019.


Two Former Vernon County Ambulance District Employees Sentenced for $270,000 Embezzlement

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The former director and the former bookkeeper of the Vernon County Ambulance District have been sentenced in federal court for embezzling more than $270,000 from the district.


Engel, McCaul Condemn Arrests of Protesters, Apparent Poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Moscow

News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today made the following statement regarding the ongoing situation in Moscow...


Grassley Op-ed: For Medicaid, greater transparency will open the door to better value and outcomes

News Release: For Medicaid, greater transparency will open the door to better value and outcomes.


News Release: CALAIS, MAINE -The National Park Service at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site invites the public to the official opening of a new permanent exhibit titled, Amalhuwikhasutik-a Passamaquoddy word that means, The Place of Picture Rocks.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Yankton, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 26, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.


Multiple Rapid City Defendants Indicted on Federal Gun Charges

News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that three men and one woman from Rapid City, South Dakota, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on federal gun charges. All Defendants were indicted on July 23, 2019.


News Release: CALAIS, MAINE - On Friday, August 9, the public is invited to join park rangers at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site for an early “Morning Salute" to honor Passamaquoddy paddlers as they journey past Saint Croix Island on their traditional canoe voyage from Motahkomikuk (Indian Township) to Sipayik (Pleasant Point).


Information and Programming on July 30 for 400th Anniversary of the First Legislative Assembly events at Historic Jamestowne and Jamestown Settlement

News Release: JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA - Sunday, July 28, 2019. On Tuesday, July 30, 2019, Jamestown Settlement and Historic Jamestowne at Jamestown Island will be closed from 5 am to 1 pm, programming begins at 2 pm for both sites. Please read the latest about the road closures, ferry closures, parking, and changes to...


News Release: A visitor was injured by a bison in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park on Saturday, July 27. The victim, a 17 year old from Colorado, was transported by helicopter to a hospital in Bismarck. As the visitor is a juvenile, the name cannot be released.


News Release: Early this morning, July 27, park rangers were notified that a 15-year-old male from Boulder, Colorado had taken a 300 to 400 foot sliding fall in The Loft area between Mount Meeker and Longs Peak. This is steep terrain covered with a mix of snow, water and rock. He received numerous injuries. Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue Team members reached him at approximately 9 a.m. They provided advanced medical care.