News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Bailey Colletta, 26, a former police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri to one count of making false statements to a federal grand jury about her knowledge of the arrest and assault of a fellow SLMPD...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee Shawn Thomas Conrad was sentenced today to 84 months in prison followed by 20 years supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Conrad also was ordered to pay $15,000 restitution, $5,000 Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act assessment, and $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: A Youngstown physician was indicted in federal court on sex trafficking charges involving minors as young as 12 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Ronnie White Mountain, age 51, of Mandan, North Dakota, was found guilty of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Aggravated Incest as a result of a three-day federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman today urged everyone, particularly online users, to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity and would-be scammers who may target Hurricane Dorian disaster victims and potential donors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Today, U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced former City of Miami Police officer Kelvin Harris to 27 and a half years in prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Codefendant James Archibald, also a former City of Miami Police officer, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in the drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Carlos A. Rodriguez Fernandez (48, Orlando) to 40 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl and for possessing child pornography. The court also ordered Rodriguez Fernandez to forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Aug. 27, 2019, Joshua Pratchard, 38, of San Diego, California, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to seventy-five months imprisonment, to be followed by a term of five years of probation and two years of supervised release, to be served concurrently. Pratchard previously pleaded guilty to multiple counts of Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by Convicted Felon and Transferring a Firearm to an Out-of State Resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Defendant stole thousands of dollars’ worth of narcotics and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - William Lance Chaney, 27, of Biloxi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Chaney was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: In partnership with the National Park Service, Eastern National would like to invite you to join us in commemorating the 156 th Anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Authors Matt Spruill will be available September 13-15, 2019, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. and Dave Powell will be available Sept. 21, 2019 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. for book signings inside the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to four years in prison for stealing the identity of an Alexandria resident and withdrawing funds from the victim’s retirement savings account.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Montgomery County man was indicted Thursday on multiple counts of bank fraud in a scheme to avoid repaying more than $150,000 in loans from the Farm Service Agency (FSA), a division of the United States Department of Agriculture.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Tuscarora Field Office announces the availability of the signed Record of Decision (ROD) and Plan of Operations Approval document for Halliburton Energy Services’ proposed Rossi Barite Mine Expansion Project Environmental Impact Statement (EIS).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the establishment of the DOE Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO). The Secretary has established the office to serve as the coordinating hub for the work being done across the DOE enterprise in Artificial Intelligence. This action has been taken as part of the President’s call for a national AI strategy to ensure AI technologies are developed to positively impact the lives of Americans.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the establishment of the DOE Artificial Intelligence and Technology Office (AITO). The Secretary has established the office to serve as the coordinating hub for the work being done across the DOE enterprise in Artificial Intelligence. This action has been taken as part of the President’s call for a national AI strategy to ensure AI technologies are developed to positively impact the lives of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II and the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Jeffrey Bossart Clark, announce that Kenneth Morrison, age 69, of Whiting, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted news that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is launching an investigation into the fuel economy deal four automakers recently brokered with the state of California...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that on Thursday a federal jury found Nelson Alexander Fuentes-Lopez, 32, a citizen of Guatemala, guilty of reentering the United States after having been previously deported.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2019
Release: BOISE, Idaho - Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered two loaded firearms in the carry-on luggage of two travelers departing two Idaho airports earlier this week. Both firearms were detected during the routine screening in the security checkpoint.
