News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Felix Calderon-Valcarcel, 29, of Orchard Park, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, five kilograms or more of cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, a maximum of life, and a fine of $10,000,000.
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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LUIS FELIPE PALAFOX-ALVAREZ (PALAFOX-ALVAREZ), age 25, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to illegally using a Social Security number to obtain employment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hoboken, New Jersey, today man admitted his role in a conspiracy to promote a voter bribery scheme during a municipal election in Hoboken, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is the “star" of another autumn night sky event; October 21 marks the 49th anniversary of the establishment of the National Lakeshore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY- A Lexington, Kentucky, woman, who previously admitted to sending false information concerning explosives threatening the University of Kentucky campus was sentenced Tuesday to 6 months in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Ely District, Caliente Field Office concluded the Caliente Complex Nuisance Wild Horse Gather near Caliente, Nev., on Oct. 7, 2019. The BLM gathered and removed 102 excess wild horses from in and around the Caliente Herd Area Complex, and Eagle and Silver King herd management areas during gather operations that lasted from July 29-Oct. 7, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Advertising Videos and Images of Children Being Sexually Abused.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andrew Campbell, 33, of Albion, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Little fire ants (LFA) have met their match as Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park gets closer to meeting its goal of eradicating the invasive, noxious pests from the popular Steam Vents area off Crater Rim Drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Three Gangster Disciples Leaders Convicted of Racketeering Conspiracy, Attempted Murder and Other Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANYER MOYA-GONZALEZ, 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 66 months of imprisonment for trafficking heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Two mountain lions have been found dead in the Santa Monica Mountains recently and the cause of death for one of them, a healthy six-year-old male known as P-30, was anticoagulant rodenticide poisoning, say National Park Service biologists. The other cat found was P-53.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: McLean, Va.- The National Park Service (NPS) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will soon begin targeted repairs on the northern section of the George Washington Memorial and Clara Barton parkways. If weather permits, the work will begin tonight, Tuesday, October 8.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford ’s past, present and future were on display last week as Energy Secretary Rick Perry celebrated a significant cleanup milestone of transferring 35 cubic yards of highly radioactive sludge from a reactor basin near the Columbia River to safe storage in the center of the 580-square-mile site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Darryl De’Monte Thompson, 31, of Jackson, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to serve 102 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for robbing a local Dollar General store in Jackson and brandishing a firearm during that crime of...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that chiropractor Ron Siscoe and his practice, Ovation Center of Integrative Medicine (“Ovation"), have agreed to pay $98,497.62 to resolve liability under the False Claims Act for the alleged improper billing...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL), and Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement on the Water Infrastructure Funding Transfer Act, which was signed into law by President Trump...
