News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: A Broward County resident was sentenced today to over three years in federal prison for stealing social security benefits, for years following her grandparents’ death.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s April 2018 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima Basin indicates the water supply will fully satisfy senior and junior water rights this irrigation season.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The DEA announced today, along with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the grand jury indictment of Dr. David Alan Ruben, a medical doctor and board certified psychiatrist. Dr. Ruben was indicted on a total of 26 felony charges, including Fraudulent Schemes and Artifices and Administration of Narcotic Drugs. The Tucson District Office of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and special agents from the Arizona Attorney General's Office investigated this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announces the guilty plea today by LEXY LOPEZ-BATEMAN, age 40, of Slidell, before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging seven Tennessee and California residents with various firearms offenses, including conspiracy to traffic in firearms by an unlicensed person, illegal transportation of firearms, and being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. None of the defendants is licensed to deal or import firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging seven Tennessee and California residents with various firearms offenses, including conspiracy to traffic in firearms by an unlicensed person, illegal transportation of firearms, and being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. None of the defendants is licensed to deal or import firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today keynoted the Protecting America's Agricultural Markets: An Agricultural Commodity Futures Conference. The conference was jointly hosted by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Center for Risk Management Education and Research at Kansas State University.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Ronald G. Gardella, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Mark Van Ronzelen, 45, of Wentzville, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with impersonation of a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent and possession of a fraudulent FBI identification card.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On April 5, 2018, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Darion Daquan Gardner, age 22, of Davenport, to 80 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Gardner was ordered to serve three ...
By Commerce 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 Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- After several weeks of pipeline breaks and water restrictions, water in storage on the South Rim of Grand Canyon has reached sustainable levels. Park operations will return to and stay at Level 1 water conservation measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Defendant has multiple prior domestic violence convictions.
By Commerce 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: PITTSBURGH - Bryan Campbell, age 27, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been charged with conspiring to rob three area banks, armed bank robbery, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA 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 4, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that in commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), April 8-14, 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) and the Westbrook Police Department (WPD) are hosting a presentation by L.Y. Marlow to raise awareness about crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Linwood, New Jersey, woman today admitted using phony claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions to defraud New Jersey state health benefits programs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney David C. Weiss announced that John B. Alwood, 54, of Lewes, Delaware, was sentenced today to 40 months in federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Diane M. Cecero, age 64, of Pittsford, New York, admitted today to unlawfully “double-dipping" and receiving state retirement benefits to which she was not entitled. She agreed to pay back those benefits, with interest, as part of a pretrial diversion agreement.
