News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - A federal grand jury has charged Tyler Ulm, 23, of Dayton, with production and other crimes related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced DEVIN LAMAR EBRON, 32, of Greenville, to 164 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
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: Mother Accused of Assaulting Child and Beating Her Two Other Children.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: To learn more about NatureBridge’s Summer Backpacking visit naturebridge.org/summerbackpacking.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Luray, VA - Shenandoah National Park Fire Managers plan to burn 33 acres of Big Meadows sometime between April 16 and May 31, 2018, weather permitting. A portion of Big Meadows (milepost 51), the open area across from Byrd Visitor Center, is burned each year for the purpose of maintaining the open vista by preventing encroachment by trees and shrubs.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: SAN ANGELO, Texas - A San Angelo, Texas, man, Mateo Raymond Flores, III, aka “Lawrence Flores," “Arturo Flores," “Rogelio Cadena," “Gordo," “Mr. G," 49, was sentenced last week to 360 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, following his guilty plea in November 2017 to an indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division, announced that Nico Burrell, a/k/a “Zico Nico," a leader of a violent street gang in the Bronx called the “Big Money Bosses" (“BMB") was sentenced yesterday to 150 months in prison on racketeering charges. Burrell was sentenced by United States District Judge Alison J. Nathan.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park will begin accepting requests for 2018 firewood collection permits Friday, April 6, through Sunday, April 8.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: A North Royalton man was indicted in federal court for conspiring to distribute controlled substance analogues commonly sold on the street as Molly.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nicholas Ryan Renfro, age 25, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Possession Of A Counterfeit Obligation Of The United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 474(a), punishable by not more than 25 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00 or both.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Pipestone National Monument News Release. 4/4/18. Contact: Seth Hendriks, Natural Resources Manager, Pipestone National Monument. Phone: 507-825-5464. Email: seth_hendriks@nps.gov. PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT PLANS PRESCRIBED BURN. Pipestone, MN - Pipestone National Monument has scheduled a prescribed burn...

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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A March indictment unsealed today charges four people in connection to a $7.8 million health care fraud conspiracy at a Birmingham clinic, and charges that the husband and wife physicians who operated the clinic used it, in part, as a “pill mill.".

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 Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a cooperative agreement with Florida International University (FIU) to help build national relationships that advance outreach in the cybersecurity education, training and workforce development...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Wanted: Applicants for FBI Denver Teen Academies.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Defendant and Co-Conspirators Murdered a Suspected Assassin, Who They Believed Had Killed MS-13 Members in El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that MICHAEL J. COTTON, age 68, of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced today to thirty-seven (37) months in prison by United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle after previously pleading guilty to the one-count Bill of Information pending against him, charging COTTON with soliciting sexual favors from a woman in exchange for obtaining a bond reduction for her boyfriend.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - SAMUEL OKERE, 61, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General.