News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles federal jury has convicted a Garden Grove man of smuggling Asian songbirds into the United States concealed in his suitcase at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the availability of the draft C Flume extraordinary maintenance loan repayment contract between the Klamath. Irrigation District and Reclamation for public review and comment. The draft contract establishes the terms for KID's repayment of a Reclamation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was arrested today in connection with a three-year, multi-million dollar fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Walter Moffett, age 51, of Chestertown, Maryland pleaded guilty today to his participation in a drug conspiracy in connection with the operation of purported pain management clinics that were actually “pill mills." Eight co-conspirators previously pleaded guilty to the same charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A woman who pleaded guilty to federal offenses stemming from her taking a minor child, whom she met during online gaming, from Texas to Wisconsin, where she sexually assaulted him, was sentenced today to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Thursday, March 31 - Starting today, owners of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) used for commercial, public and other non-model aircraft operations will be able to use the FAA’s new, streamlined, web-based registration process to register their aircraft. The web-based process will significantly speed up registration for a variety of commercial, public use and other users. Registration for those users is $5, the same low fee that model aircraft owners pay.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Jamie Lee Jones, 44, a former resident of Nevada, was indicted today on drug trafficking, firearms, and witness tampering charges, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams. Jones was living in Seaside in early February 2016, during the time of the alleged offense conduct. The indictment...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has launched two prize competitions to seek new ideas and better methods for fish to move downstream past large dams and to detect the movement of soils within earthen dams, canals and levees. Through these prize competitions, Reclamation and its partners are seeking solutions from beyond the usual sources of experts that work in these fields. These competitions are open through May 10, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Lori Broadway, age 34, Galveston, Texas, was indicted today on one count of possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Chris Alan Nebelsieck, age 44, of Colton, Washington, was sentenced today, after having previously pled guilty on Dec. 15, 2015 to Distribution of Child Pornography. United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: In Pecos today, 45-year-old Claudio Marques Martinez, Jr., was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison followed by eight years of supervised release for conspiring to transport marijuana from the Big Bend area to Hobbs, NM, for further distribution announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and DEA Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office announces the hours of operation for Reclamation’s facilities at Lake Berryessa in Napa. County, Calif. for 2016. Oak Shores Day Use Area. April 30 to September 11: Open 7:30 a.m. - 8 p.m. On April 1, Oak Shores will be open from...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Jacob Nichols, 25, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on March 29, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of heroin and for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Nichols was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OMAR RICO-ALMANZA, age 34, a citizen of Mexico, plead guilty today to a one-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jesse Wrubel, 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking marijuana and unlawfully possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Harold Wayne Owen to Serve 248 Months in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence on Wednesday returned a 70-count indictment alleging that Belkis M. Guzman, 47, of Cranston, a former tax preparer employed at El Centro Multiservices in Providence, participated in schemes to prepare false tax returns claiming deductions taxpayers...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today that STERLING ROBINSON, age 26, of Gretna, DEANDRE ROSE, age 23, and EVERETT ROSS, age 28, both of New Orleans, pled guilty to violations of the Federal Gun Control Act. ROBINSON pled guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of narcotics distribution. ROSS and ROSE each pled guilty to possession of firearms by felons.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on March 31, 2016, Vladimir Sonin (age: 48) of Bayside was sentenced before Judge J.P. Stadtmueller on charges of aiding and abetting mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, in connection with Sonin’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Northern California man has been convicted of a federal assault charge for choking and hitting a fellow passenger on a flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
