News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Reminder: FBI Richmond Seeks Interested Virginia High School Students for Youth Academy.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers apprehended a known gang-member wanted by Interpol for murder in his home country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On April 16, 2018, Trevor J. Graves, age 20, a former University of Iowa student, appeared in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Stephen B. Jackson, Jr., and pleaded guilty to transmission of a command to damage a protected computer, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Graves’ sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 23, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. before United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District, visited 4th graders at the Battle Mountain Elementary School on April 19 to give a classroom presentation and distribute Park Passes to each student which allows them and three additional family members free access to all state and national parks across the country for a year. This was made possible through an interagency program titled Every Kid in a Park that was established in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A father and son pleaded guilty in federal court today to committing six smoke shop robberies and two bank robberies in early 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant took mail home rather than delivering it.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Jeremy Rickman, age 31 of Centreville, Illinois, was sentenced on Friday, April 20, 2018 to 100 months in federal prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Derrick W. Johnson, 22, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to six years in federal prison for possessing hydrocodone with intent to deliver and carrying ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, William Nelson, former Director of Procurement at the Richmond County District Attorney’s Office (RCDA), pleaded guilty to theft of government funds relating to his embezzlement of over $440,000 from the RCDA. The plea was entered before United States Magistrate Judge Cheryl L. Pollak.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Paterson, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: BELTSVILLE, MARYLAND, April 23, 2018-The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) is partnering in the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP ), biology's version of the moonshot, an effort that will yield millions of powerful new solutions to agriculture's challenges.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: On April 22, 2018, at approximately 2:13 p.m., the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office out of the Page, Arizona substation responded to the Horseshoe Bend parking lot after being notified by Page Police Department that the vehicle of a missing person out of Buckeye, Arizona, had been located by family members. Search efforts located what is believed to be the missing person, deceased at the bottom of the Horseshoe Bend.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Ed Royce (R-CA), the Committee’s Chairman, released the following statement in support of Argentina’s bid to be a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that David Louis Vernier, age 64, of Ishpeming, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for committing bankruptcy fraud. The sentence was imposed by Chief Judge Robert J. Jonker of the U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Michael Washington (34, Tampa) to four years and three months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $143,532, the total proceeds of the fraud. Washington pleaded guilty on Feb. 2, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that Robert George, a former sergeant with the Hickory Police Department (HPD), has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using excessive force against a female arrestee, and for obstructing justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Jennifer Goss, age 36 of Menomonee Falls, WI, has agreed to plead guilty to an information charging her with wire fraud for embezzling over $200,000 from a company located in Germantown, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Alan Eric Grime, a 27 year old resident of Loxley, Alabama was sentenced to 30 months of incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a.45 caliber pistol after being convicted of Theft of Property, 1st Degree, a felony, on June 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- In the first quarter of 2018, federal and state prosecutors and their law enforcement partners combined resources to investigate and prosecute opioid cases throughout Arizona. The goal of this surge was to disrupt opioid trafficking throughout the state while promoting case coordination and...
