News published on Federal Newswire in April 2017

News from April 2017


News Release: Repair work on Big Oak Flat Road continues to progress.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Owners of a Fairfax gaming center were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and make false statements involving international terrorism, obstruction of justice, and making false statements involving international terrorism.


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Charles Johnson and Shayne Kier Jones were both sentenced to 141 months in prison each for their involvement in the April 4th, 2016 armed robbery of a Dunbar Armored truck.


KC-Area Man Charged with Four Bank Robberies

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo.-area man has been charged with robbing four banks in Independence, Liberty and Kansas City - three of them in the past two weeks.


News Release: A federal jury today found Abel Gonzalez, 46, guilty of conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of government money, and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis Lappen.


News Release: Two Local People Sentenced on Dunbar Armored Truck Robbery.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Sedillo, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding Sunday’s referendum vote in Turkey...


Lakeshore Drive across Guernsey Dam Reopened

News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Reclamation would like to notify the public that the road crossing Guernsey Dam has been reopened. The road had been closed for most of the non-irrigation season to accommodate rehabilitation of the Guernsey North Spillway Gate. The project involved cleaning, recoating, and replacing worn...


Hartford Man Pleads Guilty to Heroin and Firearm Offenses

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID VALENTIN, 37, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.


News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On April 18, 2017, William John Boom, age 65, from Davenport, Iowa, pleaded guilty to making false statements to a federal grand jury, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. This charge carries a maximum potential penalty of not more than five years of imprisonment, up...


News Release: CINCINNATI - On April 17, 2017, Raul Barocio, 47, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 63 months in prison. The prison sentence was the result of Barocio’s role as the source of supply for a cocaine trafficking organization operating in Cincinnati. Barocio pled guilty in April 2016 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.


Miami-Dade County Resident Pleads Guilty to Committing a Spree of Commercial Armed Robberies

News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty in federal court yesterday to committing a spree of commercial armed robberies between April 28, 2016 and May 3, 2016.


USDA Files Action Against J.E. Corcoran Company in Pennsylvania for Alleged PACA Violations

News Release: WASHINGTON, April18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against J.E. Corcoran Company.


New York Man Indicted On Sex Trafficking Charges

News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Derrel Wilson, age 32, of Mount Vernon, New York, was indicted on April 11, 2017, by a federal grand jury on sex trafficking charges.


News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Hector Salas-Garcia, 40, Michocan, Mexico was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 121 months’ imprisonment. Salas-Garcia had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens resulting in death.


News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York man today admitted his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.


Wilmington Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Heroin and Fentanyl Distribution

News Release: First Conviction for Recently-Formed FBI Coastal Carolinas Criminal Enterprise Task Force.


Emmerson Buie, Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division

News Release: Emmerson Buie, Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division.


San Joaquin River Restoration Program Releases Draft Environmental Assessment for New Groundwater Banking Project

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for a new groundwater recharge banking project in Tulare County.