News from June 2019
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - There’s so much infrastructure work happening at EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the view literally changes daily.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that PAUL GILENO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Blanca Quintero and Daniel Silva (619) 546-7118.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Terrel Edward Elliott, Jr., age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlicensed dealing in firearms and for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Elliott admitted that he was dealing in firearms less than two months after his release from prison for a first-degree assault conviction in Howard County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago man of shooting an agent from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Paul William Aaron, 33, of Lowell, Mass., was sentenced to 60 months in prison on Monday for participating in a conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Scott Estes, 38, of Sabattus, Maine pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to possessing a stolen firearm and possessing a firearm after having been convicted of felony offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the conviction of MARIO MARTELL SPENCER, 34, AHMED OSMAN FARAH, 32, for the armed robbery of a Minneapolis convenience store. Following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, the jury found SPENCER and FARAH guilty on all counts.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine deferred maintenance needs and potential solutions on federal lands administered by the three major land management agencies within the Department of the Interior-the National Park Service (NPS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the U.S. Fish and Wildfire Service (FWS)-as well as the USDA Forest Service (FS).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) issued a notice updating its scrapie regulations and program standards in March. These updates included several major changes, which are needed to continue the fight to eradicate scrapie from U.S. sheep flocks and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Thomas Coss, age 37, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on June 17, 2019, to 17 months’ imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for possessing illegal drugs and contraband inside the Lackawanna County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two men have been charged in connection with the armed robbery of a convenience store in Mercer County, New Jersey, on June 16, 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington announced that Julie Osnes and her company, Julie Osnes Consulting LLC (together “Osnes"), of Pierre, South Dakota, agreed to pay the United States $751,571 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by causing states to submit false quality control data for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Today, METI, ENER and DOE affirmed their shared desire to strengthen trilateral cooperation on hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: Appomattox, VA - Appomattox Court House NHP, the Appomattox 1865 Foundation, and the North Carolina School of Traditional Music will feature the 6 th Annual Joel Sweeney and the Banjo Festival at the park on Saturday, September 7 th from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The day will be filled with music that reflects...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - Derrick Antonio Hall, 37, of Monroe, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced LUIS JOEL ROBLES LATORRES, 42, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 162 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Deandre LaJuan Jackson, 27, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 228 months in prison for carjacking and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation have released for public review and comment an environmental assessment/initial study for a project to improve fishery and riparian conditions on a section of Lower Clear Creek in south Redding. The agencies will accept comments until July 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of STEVEN RICHARD WISETH, 36, a Thief River Falls chiropractor, to 27 months in prison for wire fraud. WISETH, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 17, 2019, was sentenced today before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in...
