News from October 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has established the Women in Aviation Advisory Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran today announced more than $6 million in federal grant funds to support law enforcement officers and community safety in Washington. Speaking at Microsoft for the 2019 Regional Conference for the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces, U.S. Attorney Moran congratulated the Seattle Police based ICAC for successfully competing for a $606,404 grant to support ICAC investigations in 25 of Washington’s 39 counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two brothers who formerly operated a tax preparation business in Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty in federal court today to preparing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Fields, 38, of Southeast, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for possessing multiple firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and Timothy M. Dunham, Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was arrested today on charges related to his alleged disclosure of classified national defense information (NDI) to two journalists in 2018 and 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 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 KAYODE FADAMORO, formerly of Raleigh, NC, to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $35,466.93 in restitution to the defrauded credit issuers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: MANCHESTER, NH - This year, the New England Division’s Manchester District Office (MDO) & DEA Manchester 360 Strategy, in partnership with New England HIDTA, NH Rali Rx, Daniel Webster Council, Aware Recovery, Better Life Partners, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS University), ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. -Cape Cod National Seashore staff, researchers, and volunteers will close out the month of October with several programs focused on seashore resources. All programs are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On October 8, 2019, U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Stephen Bayne Fields, Jr., age 47, of Towson, Maryland, to 12 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Fields admitted using multiple social media...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO - The Bureau of Land Management today announced that Karen Mouritsen has been named the new California State Director-a key leadership position based in Sacramento. As State Director, Mouritsen will direct a team that manages lands encompassing 15% of the Golden State’s total land mass.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that approximately 390 firearms, silencers and receivers were seized from Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL), G2FS LLC (G2 Sports Products/G2 Firearms Sales) on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. Months of investigation into the FFL, located at ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA-Are you a high school junior? Do you want know what crimes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigates, what the FBI does for your community day-to-day, how to keep your community safer, and what it really takes to work for the FBI? If you currently attend high school within the area the FBI’s Sacramento field office serves, you are welcome to apply to attend the Fall 2019 FBI Teen Academy to find out.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The retired chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department was convicted today of lying to FBI agents who were questioning him about violating an 18-year-old man’s civil rights during an arrest; the jury will return to court tomorrow to resume deliberations on the hate crime and civil rights counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Olivia Sabrina Jay, 23, of Blackfoot, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for making a false statement to a federal officer, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today. Chief District Judge David C. Nye also ordered that Jay serve three years of supervised release after her release from prison. Jay pleaded guilty to the offense on June 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Crime in the United States Report Shows 3.9 Percent Drop in Violent Crime in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jackson Abed Rodriguez-Robles, age 36, of Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2500...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury convicted a Tuscaloosa man of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: In recognition of October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) is highlighting some of its cybersecurity initiatives, including its collegiate cyber defense competition, CyberForce, whose fifth installation will be held next month at National Laboratories across the Nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Two years ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), the centerpiece of the department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAROLD BUTLER, also known as “Haas," 42, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 77 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and crack.
