News from May 2019

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: A man who possessed a firearm while subject to an order of protection was sentenced today to more than one year in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43-year-old California man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction related to a scheme to embezzle $3.1 from the Beck Group in Houston, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Charles Williams, of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty Sept. 7, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES -Two men dubbed the “Cowboy Gun Bandits" by the FBI for using a large-caliber revolver during a series of robberies that targeted gas station convenience stores and a bank have been to serve federal prison sentences of at least 35 years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND -Monique S. Bowling aka Monique Boyd, 47, of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after being found guilty during a three day jury trial in January 2019. She was found guilty of one count of theft from local government receiving federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that David Nichols, 69, of Marysville, OH, who was convicted of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit air bags, was sentenced to serve one year in prison and ordered to pay $75,846 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information was filed on May 21, 2019, charging Brenda Cruise, age 48, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, with conspiring with others to provide contraband, including illegal drugs, to inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: UPCOMING LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA EVENTS JUNE 1-29.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho began demonstrations this month simulating the retrieval of a radioactive waste known as calcine.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Earlier this month, crews at Hanford’ s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) turned over to startup the last of 14 infrastructure support buildings necessary for the plant’s Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) operation. The achievement marks the substantial completion...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced Cornelius Darrell Curtis, on May 20, 2019, to 60 months for the violation of 18 United States Code Section 924(c), Using, Carrying, or Possessing a Firearm During or in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Miami, Fla., man who allegedly made multiple large cash withdrawals with the use of fraudulent credit cards from ATMs at bank branch offices in Warwick, R.I., and Seekonk, Mass., has been ordered detained in federal custody in Rhode Island on fraud charges.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Stephen Wong (619) 546-9464.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - DARRYL DOUSE a.k.a. “TURKEY", age 29, a resident of New Orleans, was charged Friday, May 24, 2019 in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with being a felon in possession of a firearm and with distributing cocaine base, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.

By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: WILBERFORCE, OHIO - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 31,000+ visitors to Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in 2018 spent $1.9 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 29 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2.5 million.

By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced the appointment of Bruce W. Lammers as the Administrator of Rural Development’s Rural Housing Service.

By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Tuesday, May 28, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced the unsealing of an indictment charging, a Horsham, Pennsylvania man with multiple counts of child exploitation offenses including enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct, ...

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: Defendant broke into various Target stores with blow torch.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - A Hanford tank farms engineer recently received two awards at the 45th National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) conference in Detroit.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: For Conspiring to Possess With The Intent To Distribute Cocaine and Possessing A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking Crime.

By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Seven law enforcement entities and one community organization were recognized today for their outstanding work in the greater Wheeling area.