News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A member of the Lightfoot-Mendoza Drug Trafficking Organization has pleaded guilty to a federal narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - The United States Marshals Service today arrested Megan Lowe, 41, of Bevier, Missouri and Kimberly Ann Basler, 44, of Atlanta, Missouri on Federal drug charges. The Indictment against Lowe and Basler was unsealed following their arrests. It alleges that on October 5, 2018, Lowe and Basler...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Gettysburg, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Possession of an Unregistered Firearm and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm Silencer was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: National Park Service Names Charles Sellars.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 12 Ohio counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers who suffered losses due to three separate disaster events may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the forth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Williamsport, Md. - The National Park Service (NPS) and Town of Williamsport invite you to celebrate the completed restoration of the Conococheague Aqueduct and the groundbreaking of a new Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) visitor center and headquarters. The event will be held on Thursday, August 8 at 10 a.m. at the Cushwa Basin in Williamsport.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Donald James Cox, Jr., 43, of Lincoln, was sentenced July 31, 2019, to 15 years in federal prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf. Cox was sentenced to 10 years for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual/pure...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, federal authorities filed two criminal complaints charging three individuals for their roles in a human trafficking scheme involving a male child, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: On Aug. 10, Joshua Tree National Park celebrates a birthday. It was 83 years ago, through the efforts of Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, that Joshua Tree was designated a national monument by then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fifty-eight years later, President William Jefferson Clinton signed the California Desert Protection Act, granting national park status to Joshua Tree.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for narcotics offenses related to his involvement in a drug trafficking organization that trafficked heroin and crack cocaine from Massachusetts to Vermont.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Fernando Antonio Garcia-Bonilla, 27, of Quinlan, Texas, was sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison by United States District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg. The defendant was convicted of re-entering the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury indictment unsealed late Tuesday alleges a complex financial fraud scheme in which a Chinese company exported to the United States huge amounts of aluminum - disguised as “pallets" to avoid customs duties of up to 400 percent - and “sold" the purported pallets to related entities to fraudulently inflate the company’s revenues and deceive investors around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Britton, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - A Maui man was taken into federal custody yesterday after being charged in U.S. District Court with engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - July 31, 2019. SAN DIEGO - In the wake of four fentanyl overdose deaths in San Diego County in 24 hours last week, U.S. Attorney Robert Brewer issued a public safety alert today for drug users to be aware that a lethal strain of fentanyl designed...
