News from October 2019
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announces that Vehicle Ferry Service, from Morris Marina (Atlantic, NC), is reopen, and transporting 4-wheel drive vehicles for visitors who wish to visit North Core Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN -United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan, sentenced ISAI SANCHEZ, 23, of Wilmington to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release. SANCHEZ was named in a five-count Indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Judge found Stevenson threatened a trial witness and lied to the jury.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NOAA’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science is awarding more than $1.5 million in fiscal year 2019, of an anticipated total of $4.4 million over the next three years, to more than 30 academic, government and non-governmental organizations for research into how natural, man-made and restored coastal habitats could reduce the effects of sea level rise, flooding and storms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A husband and wife were sentenced to prison today for paying $125,000 to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme for their daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The owner and safety manager of a charter bus company operating in Massachusetts pleaded guilty today to bribing a federal safety investigator in order to influence the safety review of the passenger buses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A husband and wife were sentenced to prison today for paying $125,000 to participate in the college entrance exam cheating scheme for their daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal jury found Oakland area real estate developer James Tong guilty for funneling tens of thousands of dollars through straw donors into two consecutive congressional campaigns for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Bryan Joshua Tewanema, 25, of Whitecone, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 355 months of imprisonment. Tewanema had previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: A man who physically assaulted a woman who was similarly situated to him as a spouse was sentenced today to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging 14 people, residents of Western Pennsylvania as well as New York, with violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today. Several of these individuals had previously been...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for his role in producing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 67-year-old founder and part-owner of Global Blue Technologies has been convicted of sex trafficking of a minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the Congressional Delegation led by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal concluded its trip to Mexico. The members of the delegation had productive meetings in Mexico City on improving the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
Release: BOISE, Idaho - One year ahead of the federally-mandated deadline of Oct. 1, 2020, officials with the state of Idaho and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reminded Idahoans to obtain a Star Card, Idaho’s Real ID-compliant driver license. If state residents want to use their driver license as photo identification at the TSA security checkpoint starting Oct. 1, 2020, they will need to have the Star Card.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell handed down the statutory maximum prison sentence of 10 years to Antonio Carnell White, for illegally possessing multiple firearms, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. White, 29, of Hickory, N.C., was also ordered to serve two years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo - Calling all fourth graders!!! BLM is happy to once again sponsor “The Every Kid Outdoors Program." The annual pass provides fourth grade students, along with their families, friends and classmates, free access to more than 2,000 other federal recreation areas for a year. The program encourages fourth graders to explore, learn, and recreate in spectacular settings, including national parks, wildlife refuges, marine sanctuaries, and forests.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Rebecca Ann McLean, 27, a resident of Texas, pled guilty today before U.S. District Sul Ozerden to unlawful transportation of aliens within the United States for commercial advantage or private financial gain, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge...
