News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Isaiah Davis, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration for drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center (NHTIC) announces the opening of a new temporary exhibit titled “That’s The Way We Roll!" The exhibit is open to the public from January 8 through February 9.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska - The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park addition that are south of the crest of the Alaska Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A former union official for the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), Newport Lodge No. 8, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today for fraudulently converting more than $31,000 in FOP funds for his own personal use.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Two individuals, including a City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department employee, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Linked to an Overdose Death in Queens.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Carlos Villa-Lozano, 30, and Paulina Silva Aguilar, 32, both of Fresno, charging them with aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a California Highway Patrol aircraft, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Villa-Lozano was also charged separately with making false statements to an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today that a Colombian national made his initial appearance in federal court in Pittsburgh today on charges related to his alleged role in the robbery of a traveling jewelry salesmen outside a jewelry store in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: One Year Later: How Tax Reform Has Made a Difference.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JEFFERY JOSEPH, age 24, a resident of New Orleans, was charged Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 in a second superseding indictment with conspiracy to commit access device fraud and related offenses. He joins four other defendants already charged in this conspiracy, all of whom are from New Orleans: LAKISHA WILLIAMS, age 37, BRITTANY WHITE, age 32, KEYIRA GABLE, age 32, and TAMIKA STEVENS, age 47.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report outlining policies to increase choice and competition in health care...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Government is announcing that a group of Chinese cyber actors, known publicly as APT 10, is carrying out a campaign of cyber-enabled theft targeting global managed service providers, cloud service providers, and their clients. APT 10 is operating on behalf of the Chinese...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute over 50 grams of pure methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jason Haddox, 35, entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Irene C.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: A U.S. Postal Service employee who worked at the main mail processing center in Cleveland and the man she lived with were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy in which she stole at least 1,500 gift cards from the mail worth at least $47,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: BOSTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to screen a record number of travelers during the 2018 Christmas and New Year holiday travel season, so travelers flying out of the Boston region will have plenty of company when passing through the airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - An immigration fugitive from Mexico, who is wanted in his home country for premeditated homicide, was removed Wednesday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Shawn Harris, Commissioner of the Mount Vernon Police Department, announced the unsealing of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-An Illinois woman who posed as a caregiver and tried to pass fake prescriptions for pain pills in Missoula as part of a conspiracy was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tariq Butt, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft of government funds, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $305,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Charleston man was sentenced for a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Fabian Woodson, 36, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute heroin on January 4, 2016.
