News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Donald Macarthur, 39, of Lehi, Utah, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 20 years in prison. Macarthur had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography in two separate cases. Macarthur’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Zuleyka Jeanette Colon-Rivera (25, Orlando) to 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, and distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute heroin. Colon-Rivera was found guilty by a jury on Oct. 26, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) praised Rep. Tom Price’s (R-Ga.) exceptional experience and leadership and urged colleagues to support his nomination to be the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Senate is expected to vote to confirm Rep. Price this week.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), announced the following Republican members of EPW's four subcommittees, during the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The last of four illegal aliens prosecuted in federal court for their roles in a March 2016 plot to invade a Calhoun County house, take a safe from it and deliver the residence’s occupants to a Dallas-based enforcer for drug organizations was sentenced today to one year and a day in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND - Kenneth Michael Ellis was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for bank robberies covering much of Northern California, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyo., has prepared snowmelt runoff forecasts for the North Platte River Basin, according to Carlie Ronca, Wyoming Area Manager. The Feb. 1 forecast indicates the spring snowmelt runoff will be above average.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to filing a false tax return as part of a scheme that resulted in at least $138,000 in refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Daniel Joseph Salgat, 39, of Bay City, Michigan, a former Army soldier stationed at Fort Eustis, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for production of child pornography. Salgat was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and ordered to pay $1,202.58 to a victim of his crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing Environmental Laws: Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding Infrastructure and Promoting Development and Manufacturing."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Two Illinois Women Plead Guilty to Conspiring to File Fraudulent Tax Returns Using Stolen Identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: JACKSON, MS-The FBI’s Jackson Division’s Southeast Mississippi Safe Streets Task Force and Hattiesburg Police Department executed five search warrants on Dec. 16, 2016 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, seizing a total of 17 weapons related to a drug trafficking network based in Ascension Parish, Louisiana and covering Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Richard Michael Lydon, age 67, of Skaneateles Falls, New York, was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Leshawn Lawson was sentenced to 214 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down yesterday by the Honorable Phyllis J. Hamilton, United States District Judge, who found Lawson guilty of the drug charge after a bench trial in July of last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Richard Byrd, a/k/a Robert Smith, age 43, a Jamaican national residing in Maryland and Arizona, today to 26 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: In celebration of Presidents’ Day, Superintendent Scott Tucker is pleased to announce that the entrance fee to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be waived on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017. Fees waived include entrance fees and commercial tour fees. Other fees such as reservations, camping, and concession fees are not included.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Villa, 35, of Lake Arthur, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Villa will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today on federal sex trafficking charges for allegedly using Facebook to recruit minors to participate in sex acts with him and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man who deceived distressed homeowners with false promises that he could help them avoid foreclosure by obtaining modifications to their mortgages - or even completely eliminating their loans - was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a hearing for Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing Environmental Laws: Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding Infrastructure and Promoting Development and Manufacturing."
