News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Jessie Jesus Marquez, 37, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced last week in federal court to 121 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on narcotics trafficking charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - A new report released today by the independent, non-partisan Eno Center for Transportation renews the call for fundamental reform of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the United States’ air traffic control (ATC) system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Andy Moorman (864) 282-2140.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Two individuals are facing federal charges for using skimming devices on gas pumps, announced George Beck Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General for the State of Alabama. These charges are the result of a continuing multi-agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - This morning, Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings sentenced Richard Jasso, 39, of San Angelo, Texas, to life in federal prison, following a federal jury conviction on one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams of more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a recent report accusing the Bashar al-Assad regime of atrocities in Syrian prisons, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan letter from committee members to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seeking an update on U.S. plans to demand accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Syrian civil war.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Marcello Whyte, age 33, of Middletown, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Feb. 22, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Romie Earl Roland has been sentenced to ten years, ten months for conspiring to distribute Schedule II controlled substances by illegally prescribing prescription painkillers for no legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with child sexual exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Bruno Ivan Gonzales, 39, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Markell Darrell Davis, 30, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has scheduled activities associated with the reopening of its Desert Discovery Center (DDC) upon completion of renovations that began last fall.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juanita Romero, 35, of Taos County, N.M., entered a guilty plea in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a heroin trafficking charge. Juanita Romero is one of nine defendants charged with heroin trafficking and money laundering offenses as the result of a 15-month DEA-led multi-agency investigation into a heroin trafficking organization led by Ivan Romero, 40.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Director's Community Leadership Award - 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Cumberland, MD - The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) and Allegany County Tourism Visitor Center at 13 Canal Street will be closed to the public beginning Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017 for approximately two weeks while major heating and air conditioning work is completed in the Western Maryland Railway Station. The closure is necessary for visitor safety and to allow contractors to complete the work in a timely manner.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TIMOTHY SEDLAK pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to attempting to access without authorization the computer network of a global charitable organization based in New York, New York (the “Organization"), and as a result of such conduct, recklessly causing damage to computers of the Organization. He pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Jerome Harrod, age 36, of Baltimore, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2017, to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a stolen firearm.
