News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wood, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Esquibel had long criminal history including assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: For Fraud Following Multiple Arson Fires.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: As part of the National Park Service’s Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative, Montezuma Well will once again host yoga classes at 2:45pm every 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month in the Picnic Area from October 2019-December 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Crews recently demolished two Waste Tank Farm condenser structures and an equipment shelter at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP). These structures were associated with the Main Plant Process Building’s former ventilation system, which was taken out of service in 2001. This recent demolition brings EM’s total number of structures removed at the site to 64.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Family Dollar Stores of Rhode Island, LLC has agreed to a Settlement Agreement with the United States, under which it is required to undertake steps to review, identify, and address accessibility issues inside and outside of all 29 stores located in Rhode Island to bring them into compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Justice Department announced today the second coordinated law enforcement action of the Appalachian Region Prescription Opioid (ARPO) strike force, resulting in charges against 13 individuals across five Appalachian federal districts for alleged offenses relating to the over prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Joseph Williams, 30, of Watertown, New York, pled guilty today to distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, James N. Hendricks, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and New York State Police Superintendent Keith Corlett.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Springfield, MO - On Sept. 24, the U.S. Marshals Service-America’s first federal law enforcement agency-will celebrate 230 years since its founding in 1789.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, who pleaded guilty in March to attempting to communicate, deliver, or transmit information involving the national defense of the United States to the People’s Republic of China, will serve 10 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Dee Benson imposed the sentence Tuesday afternoon in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Fifteen federal defendants are in custody after federal and state authorities made numerous arrests as part of an ongoing investigation. Operation Quack Attack has resulted in the identification of multiple drug traffickers and the seizure of large quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana in the Chicot County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Two meat packing plant executives today pleaded guilty to their role in a scheme to sell more than $1 million of adulterated meat - including whole cow hearts labeled as “ground beef" - to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Crescent City, Calif. - Due to concerns for public safety, major structural damage, seismic deficiencies, vandalism, and sensitivity to the cultural significance of the site to both the Tolowa and Yurok people, Redwood National and State Parks is demolishing and removing the former Redwood Youth Hostel. Removal is planned for late September or early October. The work is being contracted in partnership with the Yurok Tribe.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WALTER ARNULFO GUZMAN RIVAS, 39, a citizen of El Salvador last residing in Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced the Whistleblower Programs Improvement Act (WPIA) to extend whistleblower protections to more individuals who report wrongdoing and violations of securities and commodities law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn announces that former U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs official Dwane Nevins, age 55, pleaded guilty last week to an indictment charging him with corruption related crimes, arising from a scheme to take payments from an undercover FBI agent. Earlier this week...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson, and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Craig Carpenito, announced an Atlantic City, New Jersey, woman was indicted today on charges including drug distribution that resulted in a death.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Milan, Michigan has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of escape after conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2019
News Release: Crater Lake, OREGON - Crater Lake National Park Fire Management staff are preparing to implement portions of the West Highway 62 prescribed fire project. The unit is located along both sides of West Highway 62. Approximately 44 acres containing roughly 2200 piles are in the areas scheduled to be burned this fall. These piles are from the construction of fuel breaks along Highway 62.
