News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Daniel Rendon-Herrera Founded Clan Usuga, Colombia’s Largest and Most Influential Drug Trafficking and Armed BACRIM Criminal Group.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Mark Migdal was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and providing false statements to banks in connection with short sale and loan modification requests, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Residents of Louisiana have an opportunity to safely and anonymously rid their homes of unused, unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription medications, announced United States Attorney Brandon Fremin of the Middle District of Louisiana, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Donte L. Evans, 43, of Biloxi, and Cedric Collum, 52, of Jackson, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate yesterday for their roles in a drug distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE - The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to restore wetland hydrology and native plant assemblages in Eastern Great Marsh, a historic and extensive wetland located in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Great Marsh is located in a dune-beach complex less than one...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emeka Ndukwu, 46, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pled guilty today to conspiring to launder the proceeds of scams that tricked seven companies in the United States and abroad into wiring more than $900,000 into accounts controlled by various co-conspirators.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Friday, April 20, 2018, United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Brian M. Madison, of West Des Moines to 18 months in prison for bank embezzlement, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Madison was ordered to pay $259,000 in restitution, serve five years of supervised release following his prison term, and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Crews are installing a new technology to remove radioactive waste from underground tanks at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Medicare Card Scams.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s April markup hearing where members voted unanimously to advance the Opioid Crisis Response Act of 2018 (OCRA), a...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: ELLICOTT CITY, MARYLAND, April 24, 2018-A surprisingly high percent of the white-footed mice collected last summer in Howard County, Maryland, in an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Areawide Integrated Tick Management Project turned out to be infected with the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on April 19, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Ira Alan Arias, age 42, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Sisseton, South Dakota, was found guilty of three counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on April 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Guy E. "Butch" Evans, 64, of Jackson, pled guilty today before United States District Judge Henry T. Wingate to aiding and abetting tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Ted A. Magee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jasmine Bradley, age 26, of Macon, GA entered a plea of guilty on April 23, 2018 to Conveying of False Information and Perpetuating a Hoax. Ms. Bradley entered her plea in Macon before District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: TEMECULA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the City of San Diego have completed the final Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) for the North City Project. The project is the first phase of the Pure Water San Diego Program, a water and wastewater facilities plan to produce potable water from recycled water.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew S. Jones, 33, and Beau K.C. Jones, 31, both of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, methamphetamine. Matthew...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Yosemite National Park announces the Glacier Point Road will open to all vehicular traffic at 9:00 am on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: A limited number of households (approximately 15) who reside within a 50-mile drive of Otter Creek, Maine will be allowed to gather this wood. This wood is mixed soft and hard, in piles of un-split, limbed rounds of 16"-20" diameter. Wood permits costing $25 will be issued for the collection of this pre-gathered wood with a maximum of two cords.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) mine rescue teams won first place in several categories of the recent Southwest Regional Mine Rescue competition in Carlsbad.
