News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - Joseph Alan Nyhart, a 35-year-old resident of Livingston, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to being a prohibited person in possession of firearms in December. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGES AVRIDOR, 42, of Greenwich and Stamford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a fraud offense related to his theft of more than $800,000 from two individuals in Greenwich.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for drug distribution and possession of multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men from Federalsburg, Maryland, have admitted to a their roles in a conspiracy involving the sale and transfer of firearms, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of failure of to register as a sex offender and failure to surrender for service of sentence, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging ALCIBIADES UVANDO-DE LAO, age 45, of Mexico, DANIEL LUIS PEREZ-FLORES, age 34, of Mexico, ORLANDO ECHEVERRIA-HERNANDEZ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CRAIG A. TAFFARO, age 70, of Harvey, a former Chief Deputy for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today to five years’ probation, a $10,000 fine, and $75,614 in restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after confirming that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the committee on Wednesday, April 11th, at 10:00 a.m. regarding the company’s use and protection of user data.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The public comment period for Sperry Chalet, The Next 100 Years Project closed on April 2. The park received nearly 400 comments. Approximately 72% percent of commenters favored some combination of concepts one and two proposed by the National Park Service in February. Those concepts...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The federal grand jury in Springfield today returned an indictment that charges Michael Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29; and, Ellis Mack, 18, all of Clarence, Ill., a rural community in east central Illinois, with possession of a machine gun. The four men were previously arrested and charged with the offense in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office on March 13, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Two more members of a large-scale conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County, Mo., were sentenced in federal court today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - James Pepion, of Portland, was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to four months in prison followed by three years supervised release for selling counterfeit Nike sneakers online and laundering his proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: Defendants Concealed That They Had Murdered Civilians and Prisoners of War During the 1990s Balkans Conflict.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 2:15 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Improving the Ability of Medicare and Medicaid to Provide Care For Patients."
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced that the previously postponed hearing entitled, “Update on the Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Electric Infrastructure," has been rescheduled for next Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 2 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, April 11, 2018, at 2:15 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Improving the Ability of Medicare and Medicaid to Provide Care For Patients."
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: On March 30, 2018, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management employee Mark Kautsky spoke briefly at a groundbreaking celebration for the Las Colonias Business Park in Grand Junction, Colorado. The business park repurposes a former uranium processing site, which was cleaned up as part of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24-year-old Houston woman has been ordered to prison for the armed robbery of two auto parts stores in the Houston area, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Latoya Taylor pleaded guilty Dec. 6, 2017, to two counts of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
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: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Charles Smith Rippy, Jr., of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
