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Federal Tipoffs Involving Massachusetts Newsletter for Thursday August 29, 2024 ( 7 items )  

'Own Your Future' Career Management Roadshow Comes to Hanscom AFB
HANSCOM AFB, Massachusetts, Aug. 29 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Jaima Fogg, 66th Air Base Wing The Air Force Personnel Center will hold an "Own Your Future" civilian career management roadshow here Sept. 11. Two "Own Your Future" sessions will be open to all Department of the Air Force civilian employees in all pay grades, military members who supervise civilians and interns in developmental programs. Morning and afternoon sessions will be hel  more

DEA Breaks Ground on New Laboratory in New Hampshire
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: LONDONDERRY, NH -The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was joined today by U.S. Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, Jane Young, representatives from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), New England HIDTA, the New Hampshire Department of Safety, the Town of Londonderry, and members of the New Hampshire federal congression  more

ERO Boston arrests Ecuadorian national charged with sex crimes against Massachusetts child
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: BOSTON Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston apprehended a 29-year-old Ecuadorian national charged with numerous sexual crimes against a Massachusetts minor. Officers with ERO Boston arrested Bryam Saraguro Ramon July 27 in North Dartmouth. "Bryam Saraguro Ramon is charged with some serious and disturbing crimes against a minor in our Massachusetts commun  more

Event Horizon Telescope Makes Highest-Resolution Black Hole Detections From Earth
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: * * * Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers have achieved very-long-baseline interferometry test observations at 345 GHz, the highest-resolution such observations ever obtained from the surface of Earth. Scientists estimate that the breakthrough will result in a remarkable 50% increase in detail, sharpening images and observations of black holes and th  more

Maine U.S. Attorney: Massachusetts Man Sentenced to 3 Years for Supplying Drug Trafficking Biddeford Couple With Fentanyl
PORTLAND, Maine, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A Massachusetts man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Portland for possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute. U.S. District Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. sentenced Darwin Mateo, 25, to 36 months imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Mateo pleaded guilty on March 1, 2024. According to court records, in August 2023, l  more

Mass. U.S. Attorney: Former Massachusetts Police Officer Arrested in Connection With Murder of Young Woman
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: A former Stoughton, Mass. police officer has been charged in federal court in Boston with allegedly murdering a young woman to prevent her from disclosing information about his longstanding sexual exploitation of her while he was on duty, beginning when she was a minor. Matthew Farwell, 38, of North Easton, Mass., has been indicted on one count  more

Mass. U.S. Attorney: Two Indian Men Indicted for Delivering Over 400 Kilograms of Cocaine and 30 Kilograms of Methamphetamine
BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Aug. 28, 2024: Two Indian nationals were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston yesterday in connection with the distribution of cocaine and methamphetamine. Simranjit Singh, 28, and Gusimrat Singh, 19, of Fresno, Calif. were each charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine  more