News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On April 25, 2018, Antonio Reed, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and a crime of violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
Release: BALTIMORE - The number of passengers expected to fly this summer is expected to exceed last year’s record-breaking numbers with more than 2.5 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints through Labor Day.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Grants Pass, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2016 Resource Management Plan established the 294-acre Provolt Seed Orchard as a Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA). In May, the BLM will host a couple of community meetings in conjunction with a recreation management plan being developed for the area that has functioned as the Provolt Seed Orchard since 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston gang member pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distributing crack cocaine in a Jamaica Plain housing development.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined a bipartisan majority of senators in voting to confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. The Senate approved the nomination by a vote of 57 to 42. On Monday, the committee reported the nomination to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation. Corker’s remarks on the Senate floor in advance of the vote follow.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2017 shows that 383,687 park visitors spent an estimated $23.1 million in local gateway regions while visiting Channel Islands National Park. That spending supported 308 jobs and contributed $32.3 million to our local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. District Judge Judith C. Herrera today sentenced David A. Hickman, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., to 20 years of imprisonment for his conviction on five arson charges, which he pled guilty to under an agreement in which he also acknowledged committing or attempting to commit four additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Pittsburgh-area woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - William Keebler, age 59, of Stockton, Utah, indicted by a federal grand jury in June 2016 in what the charges alleged was an attempt to damage or destroy a federal buildings managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, has pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Texas. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 26 de abril de 2018. Hoy en Austin, el tribunal de jurados federal condenaron a Chimene Hamilton Onyeri, 30 años, de cargos federales por su dirección en las esquemas de fraude y requeterismo...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Serial Arsonist Ignited Fires that Damaged and Destroyed Nine Buildings and Terrorized Albuquerque Community in November 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Brendon Allan Young, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of production, distribution and possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 35 years in prison and 20 years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - An Amarillo man pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of attempted enticement of a minor.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Jasper Contractors Inc. have reached a settlement that resolves a lawsuit filed under the anti-retaliation provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act. In the settlement, Jasper Contractors - headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia, but performing roofing work in Florida - agreed to pay an employee $48,000 in back wages and compensatory damages.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Mark Johnson, the former head of global foreign exchange cash trading at HSBC Bank plc, a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (collectively HSBC), was sentenced by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis to 24 months’ imprisonment for committing wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Brewer, 48, of San Francisco, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 months in prison for bid rigging, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal jury convicted 30-year-old Chimene Hamilton Onyeri on federal charges related to his leadership role in carrying out fraud and racketeering schemes that involved the attempted capital murder of State District Court Judge Julie Kocurek in November of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Gamarius Jones, age 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on April 25, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that Darnell Moon, age 30, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, pled guilty to five felony counts of Mail Fraud and one felony count of Wire Fraud. He appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Benny F. Hall & Sons LLC.
