News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Wind Cave is celebrating its 150th mile of exploration with special talks and activities Saturday, November 2. Programs include hearing exploration stories from the actual explorers, including a first-hand account of being lost in the cave for 36 hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Floyd County, Kentucky-based physician pleaded guilty Thursday for his role in unlawfully distributing opioids by pre-signing blank prescriptions that were ultimately completed by others and delivered to patients not seen by him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Lathisa Smokes, age 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pled guilty today to filing false tax returns, and assisting others in preparing false tax returns, which caused the IRS to issue fraudulent refunds exceeding $100,000.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: (Halls, TN, Oct. 18, 2019) - Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $2,856,167 in high-speed broadband infrastructure to create or improve e-Connectivity for 347 rural households in Tennessee. This is the first of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with using her position as an airline gate agent to convert low cost flights to more expensive flights and destinations for friends, family and acquaintances.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Hernández Participated in the Importation of Almost 200,000 Kilograms of Cocaine, Used Heavily Armed Security including Members of the Honduran National Police, and Coordinated Two Drug-Related Murders.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Gibeault, Jr., age 50, of Gansevoort, New York, pled guilty today to three counts of distribution of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Provincetown man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “The Pebble Mine Project: Process and Potential Impacts."
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Four operators of a suburban Chicago manufacturing company were charged in federal court Friday with knowingly hiring and harboring illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that it has awarded over $273.4 million in grants to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALVARO JOSE MEZA-GONZALEZ, (MEZA-GONZALEZ), age 39, pled guilty on Oct. 17, 2019 before United States District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier, to a one-count bill of information charging him with misuse of a Social Security Number, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The operators of a suburban Chicago manufacturing company have been charged in federal court with knowingly hiring and harboring undocumented workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today the indictment of three people for their roles in a complex scheme to launder proceeds from the sale of illegal narcotics by facilitating the transfer of bulk cash from Mexican drug trafficking organizations to Chinese nationals residing in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Kenneth Grossman, age 29, of Baltimore Maryland, to 168 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that AARON DEWAYNE TERRY, age 63, of Wichita Falls, Texas, entered a guilty plea via Superseding Indictment in connection with the theft and embezzlement of funds from business entities wholly owned by the Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town (AQTT) of Wetumka, Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Delaware Tribe of Indians, Cherokee Nation, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, and Wyandotte Nation in Northern District of Oklahoma Awarded More than $3.1 Million in Funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Holbrook conspired to distribute over 3 pounds of meth.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2019
News Release: Learn the various" incarnations" of the Arch Grounds as they evolved from French fur trading post to a warehouse district, to the present Gateway Arch National Park, as well as the ups and downs of historical figures like Pierre Leclede, James Eads, Thomas Targee, Percy Green and others. The program will be presented on the West Entrance Plaza at 6:30 pm and will be free and open to the public.
