News from March 2017
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Thousand Oaks, Calif. -- Necropsy results for Bobcat 332 are in and the findings are what biologists suspected. The 3-year-old wild cat had anticoagulant rodenticide, commonly known as rat poison, in his system. Specifically, very high levels of the compound bromadiolone were found, in addition to brodifacoum, difethialone, and diphacinone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A West Springfield man was charged today in federal court in Springfield in connection with sexually exploiting a five-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a grand jury in Bridgeport returned a 13-count indictment yesterday charging 23 individuals with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of heroin in and around New Haven. The indictment also charges one of the defendants with a firearms offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two brothers have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of possession with intent to distribute a synthetic cannabinoid mixture or substance, announced DEA Special Agent-in-Charge of the Houston Division, Joseph M. Arabit and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Roy Valent Jr., 31, and Arnold Ray Valent, 29, both of Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty January 4, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: The Thirteenth Annual Dr. John A. Gable Lecture Series, sponsored by the Friends of Sagamore Hill, continues on Thursday, March 30, with Boomtown: Oyster Bay During the Theodore Roosevelt Era. In his lecture, Park Ranger Scott Gurney of Sagamore Hill National Historic Site will discuss how technological...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Eutimio Reyna-(aka “Tony," aka “Gordo," aka “Little Tony") pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco yesterday to charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine, distribution of heroin, and money laundering, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor who fled the United States nearly 15 years ago and faked his own death to avoid prosecution in a healthcare fraud case was sentenced late this afternoon to 29 months in federal prison for fleeing justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Marvin Wayne Magnan, 63, of Ethete, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on March 28, 2017, on two counts of aggravated sexual abuse; six counts of abusive sexual contact; two counts of sexual abuse of a minor; one count of sexual abuse; and one count of simple assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Audriana Veneno, 23, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a child abuse charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Home Health Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Conspiring in $17 Million Medicaid Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and New Mexico State Police Chief Pete N. Kassetas announced that Joshua Adam Williams, 21, of Lakeside, Calif., was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Kesner Joaseus, 47, of Wellington, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to a total of 11 years in prison for orchestrating two elaborate fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Benford Chavis, the former director of three Oakland charter schools, collectively known as the American Indian Model Schools, was charged with mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the schools’ applications for federal grant funds, announced United States Attorney Brian...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, introduced a Resolution of Inquiry directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide the Committee on Homeland Security with all information it possesses pertaining to Russia interfering...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) declared the Vitrification Facility demolition-ready on March 16, after years of decontamination and deactivation to remove a variety of hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Karen E. Ramm, age 50, of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 29, 2017, by a federal grand jury for bank fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: Members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce today introduced the Improving Support for Missing and Exploited Children Act (H.R. 1808), legislation to strengthen efforts to recover missing children and support youth who are the victims of violent crimes. Introduced by Rep. Brett Guthrie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A federal defendant, who fled in 2015 while on pre-trial release, was captured yesterday in Denver, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2017
News Release: John Quadrino Charged With Defrauding Over 80 Investors in a Ponzi Scheme, Resulting in Losses of More Than $6 Million.
