News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS, KAN. - A Topeka man Tuesday pleaded guilty to a federal charge of using a gun to commit a robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that McNeal conspired with others to recruit a minor female, knowing she was under the age of 18, to engage in commercial sex acts. Between July and August of 2015, the defendant had a minor female working for him as a prostitute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert C. McCoy, age 56, of Glenmont and Selkirk, NY, was sentenced today to 80 years in prison following his conviction in August 2015 for sexual exploitation of a minor and other child exploitation crimes.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Washington -The eagles have landed, again, at the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) U.S. National Arboretum (USNA) in Washington, DC. Thanks to the Eagle Nest Cams, you have a front row seat.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta today signed a milestone Maintenance Implementation Procedures (MIP) agreement with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS). He is visiting the Singapore Air Show and meeting with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) aviation leaders this week as part of his commitment to further U.S. global leadership in aviation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced today to two years and three months in federal prison for distribution of heroin and crack, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. James Miller Johnson, III, 27, previously pleaded guilty in September 2015 to the federal drug and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell today sentenced Roger Eugene Hagood (44, Fort Myers) to four years in federal prison for bank fraud. As part of the sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $677,722, the proceeds of the fraud. Hagood pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reminding drone owners about this week’s registration deadline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Eighteen defendants have been sentenced in a large, stolen U.S. Treasury check and identity theft ring. The defendants ran an elaborate scheme that obtained stolen checks, manufactured fake Georgia driver’s licenses to use in cashing the stolen checks, and opened credit card accounts in the names of unsuspecting victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - Federal Monitor Merrick Bobb filed an assessment today that finds that the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) new crisis intervention policies, training and operations to engage people in crisis are in initial compliance with the crisis intervention provisions of the court-ordered agreement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Channel Islands National Park invites the public to explore over 13,000 years of human history on the Channel Islands at the March 6 premiere of the new documentary, West of the West: Tales from California's Channel Islands, in downtown Ventura.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central Coast Field Office, formerly the Hollister Field Office, will open for business at its new location in Marina on Feb. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Lovato Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative and HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS -Javier Gallegos, 49, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 204 months (17 years) in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2015 to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Denise Romero, 28, of Los Ranchos, N.M., was sentenced in federal court today to 37 months in prison for robbing the New Mexico Bank & Trust branch located on 4th Street NW in Albuquerque, N.M., in March 2015. She will be on supervised release for three years after completing her prison sentence. Romero also was ordered to pay full restitution to the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal grand jury in Greenville returned an Indictment charging, PERFECTO RUANO, 56, and WALDA LUNA, 45, both of Wallace, North Carolina, of conspiracy to commit mail fraud by filing fraudulent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Amanda Andrea Wyatt, 26, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Felda Vegetable Farms Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, a federal grand jury has indicted KEN EJIMOFOR EZEAH, 33, from Nigeria, and AKUNNA BAIYINA EJIOFOR, 31, a resident of Houston, Texas, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced Mark Yancey, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
