News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Chinese scientist was sentenced today to 121 months in a federal prison for conspiring to steal samples of a variety of rice seeds from a Kansas biopharmaceutical research facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney R. Trent Shores announced that United States District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Phong Do, 36, of Westminster, California, to serve 30 months in federal prison for Conspiracy to Launder Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: A Richland County, Illinois man was indicted on April 3, 2018, on a methamphetamine- related charge, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Justin R. Mason, age 35, of Olney, Illinois was the only defendant named in the one-count Indictment, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man along with his three sons and a daughter, another Springfield resident and a Columbia, Mo., woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Brandon Eugene Williams has pleaded guilty to distributing the hallucinogenic drugs LSD and dimethyltryptamine (“DMT") to an FBI informant on two occasions.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s intention to deploy the military to the border...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: New Orleans-Area Woman Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Possess Oxycodone by Fraud and to Possess With Intent to Distribute Oxycodone on the Black Market.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park will host special events to celebrate National Park Week from April 21 to April 29, 2018. Entrance fees will be waived at all National Park Service sites, including Shenandoah, on April 21. Join us for ranger programs, presentations, ranger led hikes, and our annual Junior Ranger Day.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it would work with border state governors to deploy National Guard troops to the southern border.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA), Mesa Verde National Park, and Durango Area Tourism Office (DATO) are pleased to announce there will soon be a Durango based location to purchase Mesa Verde cliff dwelling tour tickets and related merchandise. The new MVMA bookstore opens April 9, 2018, with tour ticket sales beginning April 15, at the Durango Welcome Center, located at 802 Main Ave, Durango, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following a one-day trial, a federal jury has convicted Lamone Ivory, 46, of Fort Worth, Texas, of multiple drug and firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - A Queens, New York, man was sentenced to four years in prison for federal bribery and tax evasion charges Tuesday following a multi-agency investigation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Kevin Scott Morris, 45, of Forney, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to 480 months in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release, following his guilty plea in December 2017 to one count of enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced that former White River...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Michael Gladney, 41, of St. Louis, was arrested this morning after being charged in a federal criminal complaint dated March 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former bookkeeper for two restaurants in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago was arrested today on a federal fraud charge for allegedly misappropriating more than $600,000 from the eateries.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Orange, Virginia, man today admitted possessing videos of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for previous offenses involving the possession and distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service has completed its March 2018 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island. The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 82 horses, which is well within the ideal population range. The herd currently includes 21 stallions and 61 mares, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Chinese Scientist Sentenced to Prison in Theft of Engineered Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Shelly Raye Winfrey, age 47, of Mulberry, was sentenced today to 130 days incarceration, with credit for 130 days served, followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered...
