News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Russell Delano Miley-Cruz, from Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for transmitting a school shooting threat about Parma High School. He was also ordered to reimburse the Parma Police Department for overtime hours incurred responding to this hoax threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Waldo Nahle, 37, of Albuquerque, New Mexico was sentended in federal court in Santa Fe, New Mexico on Jan. 10 to more than 20 years (250 months) in prison on three counts of distribution of methamphetamine, two counts of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded $197,020.95 Phase 1 funding to Stranger Labs, Inc. based in Cambridge, MA, to develop a digital credential solution that mitigates compromising the usability and convenience of paper-based credentials by making digital credentials verifiable offline.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - A Pensacola man has been sentenced to more than six years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The 76-month sentence handed down to Charleston Pierre Wiggins, 32, of Pensacola, was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Louis Mathis, 49, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, and restitution of $398,960 by United States District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert following his conviction on charges...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - In coming months, Hanford crews will build new access roads and install lighting, utilities, and support buildings to ready the site’s disposal facility for low-activity tank waste immobilized in glass and treated at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A South Carolina man who participated in the sale of 17 firearms, including five assault rifles, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally sell weapons in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury in Boston returned the fourth superseding indictment charging one of the 15 parents implicated in the college admissions case with tax offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
Release: The government of Japan has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize importation of fresh melon fruit (Cucumis melo) for consumption into the continental United States, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man was sentenced today to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release after a traffic stop ultimately led to his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Defendant used false identity on more than a dozen applications submitted for driver’s licenses and to obtain MassHealth benefits.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing evaluating the Administration's Iran policy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A California man who admitted transporting methamphetamine to Billings for distribution in Montana was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Kenai man has been sentenced to federal prison for threatening in a 2017 court filing to kill the family of a Superior Court Judge with the State of Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - The visitor center for Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument will be closed most of February for the installation of new museum exhibits. During this time the park will not charge entry fees for visiting the monument, and America the Beautiful public lands passes will not be available for purchase.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Reclamation's January forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn River Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LORRAINE SHANLEY was sentenced today to two years in prison for bank fraud and subscribing to false and fraudulent individual income tax returns, in connection with fraudulently obtaining over $400,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: After the Fraud was Discovered, the Defendant Filed a Fraudulent Petition for Bankruptcy Which was Denied by the Bankruptcy Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the Pennsylvania Medicaid program and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2020
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been sentenced in federal court to 78 months’ imprisonment and five years of supervised release on her conviction of violating the Mann Act by transporting a minor across state lines for the purpose of having the individual engage in prostitution and conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
