News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Iranian Citizen Sentenced for Conspiring to Facilitate the Illegal Export of Technology to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A retired U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander most recently stationed at the Naval War College in Newport, RI, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence, RI, today on charges he allegedly transported and enticed a minor to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and that he distributed, received, and possessed child pornography all while actively serving and following his retirement from active service with the U.S. Navy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that on Sept. 23, 2019, in federal court, MARCIO SANTOS-PORTILLO, 46, of Honduras, was convicted following a trial before United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard. The jury found the defendant guilty of Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Miami Township man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to creating and distributing child pornography of the sexual abuse of a two-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donald Morang, a/k/a “DW," 39, formerly of Augusta, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute heroin; cocaine base, commonly known as “crack;" and fentanyl. Morang pled guilty on Oct.17, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Over the past six years, the quantity of confiscated synthetic opioids like fentanyl at U.S. ports of entry has multiplied. In 2013, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized only two pounds of fentanyl. That number grew to 460 pounds in 2016, skyrocketed with seizures of nearly 1,400 pounds...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Calumet Area Trails Organizers Seek Public Input.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted in two separate cases of Larceny and Possession of a Stolen Firearm, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
Release: SYRACUSE, NY - A Seneca County, New York, man was stopped after Transportation Security Administration officers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR) detected a.40 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets in his carry-on bag yesterday, September 23. It marked the second gun caught at the airport’s checkpoint this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Miami Township man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to creating and distributing child pornography of the sexual abuse of a two-year-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A real estate agent recruiter was arrested today on charges stemming from a scheme to inflate sales commissions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Robs Wells Fargo Bank in Santa Fe.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to seven years and six months (90 months) of incarceration on his conviction for violating federal firearms and drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Demario Hunter, 33, of East St. Louis, IL; Keombra James, 25, of East St. Louis, IL; and Surrayah Hill, 21, of East St. Louis, IL were indicted last week by a federal grand jury for attempted carjacking in the 3400 block of Iowa Street in St. Louis, MO during which James Anthony Sapone...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DAMIEN JAMES McDONALD, 41, to 110 months in prison. McDONALD pleaded guilty on March 8, 2019, to two counts of armed bank robbery. He was sentenced earlier today by U.S. District Court Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Dear Ambassador Cornstein: Several of us have written to you before about upholding American democratic values and security interests when dealing with the autocratic host government of Victor Orban, whose embrace of Russia and antidemocratic actions are cause for considerable concern. As such we are...
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today met with Dominic Raab, foreign secretary of the United Kingdom, in the U.S. Capitol. Risch and Raab discussed the strong partnership and enduring special relationship between the U.S. and the U.K., along with a number of issues of mutual interest.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The next major phase of Hanford cleanup is treating tank waste using vitrification - mixing the waste with glass - at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP), as part of the.
