News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket resident was sentenced today to two years probation, the first six months to be served with electronic monitoring and an overnight curfew, for concealing $18,000 when petitioning the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for bankruptcy protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York man was sentenced today to one year in prison for sending threats and framing three victims for crimes they did not commit.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL BOBOWSKI, 43, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, d-methamphetamine hydrochloride, also known as “ice" and other street names.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, age 31, and a citizen of Romania, was arraigned today on charges that he worked with others to steal account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) from people using ATMs in the Capital Region in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Had a Prior Conviction for Being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, along with Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Tim Scott (R-SC) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), introduced...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - To ensure the public and BLM’s state and local partners have sufficient time to review the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed Resource Management Plan Amendments (RMPA) addressing Greater Sage-Grouse, BLM Wyoming is extending the protest period for the Final EIS/RMPA until Jan. 23, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ronald E. Martin, Sr., 65, of Medway, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to crimes related to stealing from the estate of a deceased friend, to the detriment of the intended beneficiary.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) displayed an exhibit of historic photos to nearly 100 members of the Grand Junction Geological Society (GJGS) during their monthly meeting at Colorado Mesa University in December.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Dominican nationals were arrested yesterday and charged with heroin trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marquese Whitted, age 33, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in Schuylkill and Berks Counties.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming released a Notice of Competitive Lease Sale announcing a supplementary sale slated for Feb. 25-March 1, 2019. The BLM proposes to offer 568 parcels totaling about 768,942 acres in an online auction on www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Central Islip charging Alexis Laguerra, Raymond Soto, also known as “Rambo," and his father, Raymond Soto, also known as “Razor," with bank larceny in connection with the theft of $510,000 from an armored car in Valley Stream on Nov. 2...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Robert Jacob Eberle, age 30, of Lexington Park, Maryland, on federal charges including theft of firearms, possession of stolen firearms, and being a felon in possession of firearms. The indictment was returned on Dec. 10, 2018. Eberle is detained and is scheduled to have his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt on Dec. 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Government Seeks to Return Painting to Ukrainian Government, Which Rightfully Owned It.
By State Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Trump Administration’s plan to withdraw half of American forces in Afghanistan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The founder and former chief executive officer of Celerity Educational Group, a Koreatown-based non-profit company that owned and operated charter schools, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for misappropriating approximately $2.5 million in public-education funds awarded to several Celerity charter schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Mexican citizen pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT GARCIA, the former president and chief of the Briarcliff Manor Fire Department (“BMFD"), was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel to one year and one day in prison for charges...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: The Fort Scott National Historic Site’s Visitor Center and fort buildings will be closed and no programs will be offered on Christmas day and New Year's day (Dec. 25, 2018 and Jan. 1, 2019) to allow staff to celebrate the holidays with their families. Regular winter hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm daily.
