News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Danielle Ey, 29, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court to 24 months incarceration for assisting in heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jardel Florencio Escobar-Vargas, age 27, and a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today to time served (54 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County man was sentenced today to 106 months in prison for his role in conspiring over 15 months to sell crack cocaine in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 5, 2017, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Michael John Bickel, age 26, of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania to 35 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for production of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced witnesses for the Committee’s upcoming hearing to review pesticide registrations.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2017
Release: BALTIMORE - A woman and a man were each arrested at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on Friday, May 5, in separate incidents after each individual was caught with a gun at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint. The incidents were not related.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terard Ansor, 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 60 months incarceration today for distributing heroin, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 5, 2017, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Michael John Bickel, age 26, of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania to 35 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: ATF task force, Warwick and Pawtucket Police seize 173 grams of meth.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant failed to report cash income and used cash to purchase cars and jewelry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County man was sentenced today to 106 months in prison for his role in conspiring over 15 months to sell crack cocaine in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. and SILVER SPRINGS, Md. - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), DEA Educational Foundation and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today the finalists of the inaugural Operation Prevention Video Challenge-a peer-to-peer platform for communicating messages about the dangers of opioid misuse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that James Robert Dowty, age 27, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, was found guilty of Second Degree Murder and Discharge of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime of Violence at the conclusion of a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on Friday, May 5, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Larry Stinson, Jr., 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today in federal court to 72 months incarceration for heroin distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS SANTIAGO, also known as “Choco," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 75 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: HUNGRY HORSE, Montana - The Bureau of Reclamation announces the opening of the Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center for the 2017 summer season beginning May 26.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,347,957 visitors to New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River, and Gauley River National Recreation Area spent $58,604,300 in communities near the three parks in 2016. That spending supported 877 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economies of $67,089,900. The parks span four counties in southern West Virginia: Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2017
Release: BISMARCK, N.D. - A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer at Bismarck Airport (BIS) prevented a male passenger from bringing a loaded Smith and Wesson.380 semiautomatic pistol onto a flight to Denver on Monday, May 8.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2017
News Release: Tourism to Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park creates $56.7 Million in Economic Benefits.
