News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that the former Buncombe County Manager, Wanda Skillington Greene, 66, and her son, Michael Gene Greene, 47, both of Arden, N.C., are facing federal charges related to the misuse of public funds. A criminal bill of indictment charges Wanda...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Spring plowing operations have begun in Glacier National Park. Last week crews plowed to the camp store in Two Medicine and through Chief Mountain Road on the east side of the park. This week, plows will work on Many Glacier Road on the east side of the park, and Camas Road on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Bossier City man was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for driving a vehicle onto Barksdale Air Force Base and damaging property.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier sentenced a Dilworth, Minnesota man convicted of Carjacking on April 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Anthony Grado, a member of the Luchese organized crime family, and Lawrence Tranese, an organized crime associate, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. The proceeding was before United States Magistrate Judge Sanket J. Bulsara.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM- Today a federal jury convicted an Etowah County man for drug trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: A Canfield man was arrested today after being indicted on firearms violations, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Bryshun Genard Furlow, age 34, of Lexington, plead guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and a substance containing both methamphetamine and cocaine, as well as to being...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Following reports this week of possible foreign entities spying on Americans’ cellular calls, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Congressman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, today called on the FCC to crack-down on fake cell towers known as stingrays.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Dezjuan O. Myers, 21, of Canal Winchester, Ohio, was arrested today and charged with interstate robbery, brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Four Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Inspector General (IG) Arthur Elkins, Jr. today requesting that his office open an investigation focusing on whether EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has misused or abused his position to inappropriately enrich himself or his family members and whether EPA’s political leadership applied political pressure on Agency ethics officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Guillermo Dahilig, of Waialua, Hawaii, pled guilty today in federal court to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Delano Fultz, Jr., age 46, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma pled guilty to Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Iulian Petre, a/k/a “Julian Petre," 51, of Waterville, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally receiving and shipping firearms. He was convicted of these charges on Aug. 28, 2017, following a six-day jury trial.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Closing an interagency investigation and bringing justice for the victim of a violent attack, a man has been sentenced to serve 30 years in prison. Elijah Z. Reed, age 27, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and kidnapping at a recent court hearing. The charges were for an August 2017 incident in Fort Smith National Historic Park.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Get Fresh Produce Distributors Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Intended to Use Family Members from Utah to Manufacture Meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alton Jay Cowboy, 48, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal judge has ruled that BestCare Laboratory Services LLC and its founder and CEO Karim Maghareh defrauded Medicare by billing for thousands of miles that were not actually travelled, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick.
