News from February 2017
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: The Denali Park Road is now open as far as the Mountain Vista Rest Area (milepost 13) for travel by private vehicles and commercial vehicles with permits. Visitors should expect to encounter snow and ice on shaded sections of the park road.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Kansas Agricultural Scientist Convicted in Theft of Engineered Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Boca Raton, Florida man was sentenced to 48 months in prison for his role in a computer hacking and identity theft scheme that hijacked customer email accounts to send bulk unsolicited or “spam" emails and generated more than $1.3 million in illegal profits, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking the Justice Department to convene a grand jury or charge former State Department employee Bryan Pagliano for refusal to appear before a committee of Congress, a violation of 2 U.S.C. § 192.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Rodney D. Cydrus, 47, formerly of Chillicothe, with charges related to threatening United States judges and federal law enforcement officials in an indictment returned in Cincinnati. Cydrus is currently an inmate at Lebanon Correctional Institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BRANDON J. GRIMLAND, age 42, of Sayre, Oklahoma, pled guilty to POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by no more than 30 years imprisonment, and up to a $2,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Espen Brungodt, 29, of Norway, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court Judge D. Brock Hornby to 15 months in prison for making threatening interstate communications. He pled guilty on Sept. 26, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on a new voluntary labeling effort to streamline date labeling on food packaging.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Houston man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GERALD URSIN, JR., age 63, of New Orleans and a retired Chief Deputy of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO"), was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Bickmore, 30, of Guilford, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin. He pleaded guilty to this charge on July 12, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - A Virgin Islands grand jury, on Jan. 12, 2017, returned a six-count indictment against Celeste P. Bermudez, 41, of Methuen, Massachusetts, charging her with theft of federal program funds, money laundering, and making and subscribing a false income tax return, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Request for Public Assistance to Identify Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 40-year-old Wylie, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the signing of a criminal complaint charging Mark Charles Barnett (48, Ocala) with possession of a firearm (destructive device) affecting commerce by a previously convicted felon. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Barnett is currently in custody at the Marion County Jail on state charges for violating his terms of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Israeli national and a co-conspirator were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a conspiracy to transfer $2.5 million of cocaine from Colombia to Israel via Boston as well as money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Shane Rucker, 33, of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, was arrested today on a two-count federal indictment in the District of Idaho charging him with destruction of religious property and using a fire to damage or destroy religious property. A federal grand jury sitting in Boise returned the indictment on Feb. 15, 2017. Rucker will make his initial appearance tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. at the federal courthouse in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Chamberlain Chaney (26, Brooksville) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Glock.40 caliber pistol and 15 rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an eight-count indictment charging Michael Rosier, 22, and Cody Kross-Rosier, 22, both of Lockport, NY, with bank fraud...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs Committees sent a letter signed by 78 members of Congress to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seeking the unconditional release of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been unjustly detained in Turkey since October...
