News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: White Sands National Monument, New Mexico - On a remote salt flat with nearby towering, snow white gypsum dunes, a team of scientists are following a string of fossilized footprints back in time to the end of the Ice Age where humans - adults and children - were likely hunting a giant, razor-clawed ground sloth.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center pleaded guilty in federal court today to smuggling contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Christian Dejesus Rodriguez, 19, Seminole County, Florida, pleaded guilty today to robbing three businesses in Madison, Wisconsin, and brandishing a firearm during one of the robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LESTER MALAVA, age 57, of New Orleans, was sentenced today by the Honorable Kurt D. Engelhardt, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Six MS-13 Members with Ties to New Jersey Indicted on Gang-Related Charges Including Racketeering Conspiracy, Murder, and Multiple Murder Conspiracies.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: “Good afternoon. The Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing on stopping the flow of synthetic opioids in the international mail system. Before hearing from our witnesses, I’d like to make a few points.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
Release: Some people use speed dating to find life partners, but U.S. seafood exporters recently applied the concept to finding new trading partners. On March 10, Food Export-Northeast organized an event in Boston where 17 U.S. sellers met with 15 interested foreign buyers in the hopes of hooking new sales opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Derrick D’Angelo Edwards, 41, of Moss Point, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 60 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze. Edwards was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, April 26 at 10 a.m. to consider...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman David Reichert (R-WA) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “The Opioid Crisis: Stopping the Flow of Synthetic Opioids in the International Mail System." The hearing will focus on efforts to improve the detection...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Brockton, MA, man pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence, RI, on Tuesday to traveling interstate on multiple occasions to engage in illicit sex with a 15-year-old minor he met on an online forum.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Gustavo Falcon, a member of the Falcon-Magluta criminal organization, was sentenced by United States District Judge Federico A. Moreno today to 135 months in prison for his participation in a narcotics conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA), co-Chair of the Central America caucus, Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Trump Organization General...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: FBI and Springfield Police Ask for Public's Help Finding Armed Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A grand jury returned a seven-count superseding indictment today charging six members of the violent street gang MS-13, including one who is incarcerated in El Salvador, with various gang-related offenses, including racketeering conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two men pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to their roles in an opioid trafficking conspiracy involving the distribution of fentanyl, heroin, and oxycodone across Massachusetts and Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Simpson was sentenced for assault and armed robbery of a confidential government informant who was assisting ATF agents as part of the Drug Market Initiative (“DMI") in the English Avenue community. Elgin Byrd was previously sentenced for his respective role in the illegal activity on Feb. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - This Saturday, April 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement partners will give the public its 15th opportunity in eight years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Emory Werito, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Nageezi, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 36 months in prison for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Werito will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - From April 30 to May 4, the Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District will be servicing the well that provides water to the Dripping Springs Visitor Center and the La Cueva picnic area. During this time, the public will only have access to portable toilets and hand washing stations, but will need to bring their own drinking water.
