News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing the firearm he used to shoot another person.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-DE) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt requesting...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The gate at the entrance to the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park will open on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 7:30 am. Grand Canyon Lodge North Rim, a Forever Resorts property, and Grand Canyon Trail Rides will commence their 2018 operations. Kaibab Plateau businesses, from Jacob Lake to the park boundary, will also be open on May 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant Already Serving 40-Year Prison Term For Brutal Attack, One Week Earlier, of Another Woman.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Alan McTaggart of Houghton, MI is making a difference in Keweenaw National Historical Park. He is one of 52 recent college graduates working in a national park this year to “Get Things Done" as an AmeriCorps Community Volunteer Ambassador. Alan will spend a year working with park partners, known as Keweenaw...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Pettit (619) 546-7972.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A New Jersey man was sentenced today to life in prison for leading, organizing, and supplying a heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that resulted in more than a dozen overdoses and at least two deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged five Cincinnati individuals with conspiring to commit bank fraud and with aggravated identity theft in an indictment unsealed here yesterday.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and the newly formed non-profit Piceance Mustangs are hosting a tour and barbecue May 5 to celebrate the wild horses of the Piceance-East Douglas Herd Management Area southwest of Meeker. A volunteer work day follows on May 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Kendale Johnson, 28, of Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 37 months’ imprisonment. Johnson had previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting an assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Meisum Bakery Inc. and its owner, Xi Xian Lei, were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a more than $740,000 food stamp fraud scheme that Lei and his employees operated out of a Chinatown bakery.
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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Opioid and prescription drug abuse is at an all-time high in the United States. Part of the opioid epidemic facing the country is the prevalence of counterfeit pills being sold as prescription drugs over the Internet. These pills often contain substances other than what is promised and lead to overdoses and deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: Lawyer Convicted of Bribing New York City Police Department Sergeant to Give Favorable Treatment to his Clients in Gun License Matters.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting nominations for the 2018 NPS Environmental Achievement (EA) Awards. The NPS EA Award offers an opportunity to recognize concessioners who demonstrate exceptional accomplishments toward the overall goal of preservation and protection of the resources under our stewardship. NPS EA Award nomination packages are due May 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney has sentenced Jackson Suddreth Tyler, 22, of Troutman, N.C. to 228 months in prison, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered Tyler to serve six years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Elkhart, Indiana, man was sentenced on April 17, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Daniel Rendon-Herrera, also known as “Don Mario," will be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on charges of leading a continuing criminal enterprise. In May 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the filing of a felony information charging RONNIE EUGENE TAGGART, 50, for soliciting and receiving bribes and kickbacks in exchange for awarding City of Plymouth contracts.TAGGART will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
