News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JAYLYN MARQUICE BELL, 23, has pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a minor, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging VICTOR HUGO ESPINOZA-HERNANDEZ, age 50, of Honduras, IRAEL PEREZ-LOPEZ, age 34, of Guatemala, VICTOR SANCHEZ-ISMERIO, age 38, of Mexico, MELECIO MORALES, age 33, of Mexico, and ARTURO ESPINOZA-PEREZ, age 30, of Mexico, with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: As the 2019 hurricane season begins, the Department of Justice reminds the public to be on the lookout for fraud against natural disaster victims, and report it to the National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF). The Atlantic Hurricane Season opened June 1 and runs through November 30.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - It’s going to be a busy summer at Syracuse-Hancock International Airport.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar and senior leaders from EM told an audience of the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus last week that new initiatives in contracting and high level radioactive waste hold the potential to accelerate cleanup at key DOE sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MARCUS ANTONIO BLANKS, 32, of Saint Pauls, North Carolina, to 168 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Former Navy Employee Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Offenses with Multiple Victims.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: LAKEWOOD, NJ - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Navy Contractors Inc. for exposing employees to fall hazards at a work site in Lakewood, New Jersey. The company faces $84,183 in penalties for repeat and serious safety violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Veronica Lewis was charged yesterday by Criminal Complaint in U.S. District Court with unlawfully possessing a firearm after having been adjudicated as mentally defective, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(4), and possessing a stolen firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(j). Lewis was arrested this morning, and will appear today in federal court in Burlington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for each of the seven parcels offered in the West Desert District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Toni Tinay, 24, of Oakley, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to three and a half years in prison for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possessing counterfeited U.S. Postal Service keys, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Tinay was also sentenced to serve three years of supervised release following her prison term and pay $2,936 in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham announced that Alex Borrero, also known as “Red," 51, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and fentanyl.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Crews recently recovered more than a ton of mercury from an aging facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex, marking another EM project that has prevented a release of the element into the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Allegations include recordkeeping violations and failure to maintain adequate controls.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 140 criminal aliens and immigration violators in six Midwest states during a five-day enforcement action, which ended Thursday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, spoke at a press conference following the House passage of H.Res. 430, which authorizes committee chairs to go directly to court to fully enforce their subpoenas without a full House vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: A man who used another person’s Social Security number to get a job was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: Arkmallah Hilliard and his Co-Conspirators Received More than $900,000 in Refunds from the IRS Based on Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Dakota Zachary Williams, 24, pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon before Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the St. Albans Police Department, Nitro Police Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
