News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a total of nearly $4 million in grants to 19 small businesses to support innovative technology development. Awardees in 12 states will receive Phase I or Phase II funding through NIST’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Philip Gordon Paauwe, 33, of Grandville, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 420 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for coercing and enticing a minor to produce child pornography. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney also imposed a period of supervised release of 10 years and ordered Paauwe to pay $34,000 in restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Adrian Chavez Oviedo, age 28, was sentenced today to 330 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $9,700.00 fine for Aiding and Abetting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Holyoke kindergarten teacher was arrested last night and charged with possession of child pornography. Yesterday, the defendant resigned from his position as a kindergarten teacher for the Holyoke Public Schools where he was employed.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: MILWAUKEE-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Northeastern States District (NSD) is soliciting bids on a lease to manage horseback riding recreation resources located on the Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area in Lorton, Virginia. The NSD published the solicitation for competitive sealed bids...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - The North Texas Crime Commission (NTCC) recognized an Eastern District of Texas federal prosecutor as the 2019 Prosecutor of the Year at their monthly membership meeting on Sep. 12, 2019 in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Lavon Wims, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to six counts of Hobbs Act robbery. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Defendant and Fellow Bloods Gang Member Fatally Shot Victims During a Robbery near the Long Island Railroad Station in Bay Shore.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, raised concerns about Chairman Cummings’s recent attacks on Vice President Pence’s travel accommodations. Ranking Member Jordan sent letters to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Friday, Sept. 20, at 9 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building on using energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Maurice Avent, age 48, of Georgetown, pleaded guilty in federal court to a misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act. United States District Court Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, accepted the plea and will sentence Avent after receiving and reviewing a pre-sentence report prepared by the United States Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Demetrius Sturkey, of Dennehotso, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to 30 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Sturkey had previously pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bilal Ahmed, 47, of Potomac, Maryland, pled guilty on September 6, 2019, to a federal charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which he and others caused the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program to be defrauded out of more than $5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández sentenced Ricardo Barrios-Calderón to 25 years in prison followed by a supervised release term of 10 years for production of child pornography, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Barrios-Calderón pleaded guilty on Feb. 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley man has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges that he conspired to smuggle approximately 40 kilograms of cocaine - concealed and suspended in grease - in household products and mailed it to Australia, then laundered up to $3.5 million of the illicit drug proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging KENNETH LUPOLI, 57, of Hamden, with one count of possession of explosives by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A St. Joseph, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with illegally possessing 15 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced yesterday for violating conditions of his supervised release by engaging in another cybercrime after being released from federal custody after two prior convictions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2019
News Release: Charles Pinckney NHS will host its 22nd Naturalization Ceremony on Thursday, September 19 from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Every year, approximately 100 individuals from countries all over the world take the Oath of Citizenship during this ceremony. This event is free and open to the public. The park is located at 1254 Long Point Road in Mount Pleasant, SC.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Raymond P. Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Health...
