News from December 2018
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office has concluded the Silver King Herd Management Area (HMA) Wild Horse Gather. The BLM gathered and removed 996 excess wild horses from public and private lands in and outside the Silver King HMA in eastern Nevada. Approximately 228 wild horses remain in the HMA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An indictment was unsealed today charging two men with conspiracy, acting in the United States as unregistered agents of the government of Turkey, and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Dec. 17, 2018 - Christopher B. Warren, 50, of Anthony, Florida pleaded guilty Friday to one count of mail fraud and one count of securities fraud for operating a $28 million Ponzi scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: “Therese Okoumou was convicted in federal court today for a dangerous stunt last July 4th that endangered herself and the NYPD and U.S. Park Police officers who rescued and apprehended her. The act of climbing the base of the Statue of Liberty went well beyond peaceable...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Austin Santoro, 23, of York, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transmitting threatening interstate communications and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge, Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of Julian Hernandez-Gonzalez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Richards, 28, of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin; possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking; maintaining...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - An illegal alien from China pleaded guilty Friday to possessing a firearm as an illegal alien and to aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOHN ARNOLD SHELLEY, 68, of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for making a false statement to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. He has also been ordered to pay over $137 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Glenn Darryl Dennis, age 33, of West Ashley, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Senior United States District Judge Margaret B. Seymour of Charleston sentenced Dennis to 71 months in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of court-ordered supervision. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: CLEARWATER, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Thiele Dairy for failing to develop and implement safety and health programs related to grain bin entry after an employee suffered fatal injuries.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, Trinity River Restoration Program, along with agency co-leads Bureau of Land Management and North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and cooperating agency Shasta-Trinity National Forest, announce the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for the proposed Dutch Creek channel rehabilitation project.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that over the course of the last week in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, multiple defendants have been sentenced in a large-scale heroin and marijuana trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A former resident of Van Buren, Arkansas, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to nine years and eight months in prison and three years of supervised release on her conviction of federal firearms laws, conspiracy to commit identity theft offenses, unauthorized use of counterfeit driver’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of BRIAN ALAN KAELBLE, 33, to 212 months in federal prison for receipt of child pornography. KAEBLE, who has two prior convictions in the States of Missouri and Kansas for crimes related to child pornography, pleaded guilty on Aug. 14, 2018, to a criminal information. He was sentenced Dec. 12, 2018, by Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, after an eight-day jury trial, a jury found Cristian Serrano-Delgado guilty of Hobbs Act robbery and murder, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) were in charge of the investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument will soon modify its seven-day entrance fee from $7.00 per person to $10.00 per person on Jan. 1, 2019. The Fort Pulaski annual pass will increase from $30.00 to $35.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Detroit, Michigan man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua McCarver, 20, entered a guilty plea today to knowingly and intentionally distributing fentanyl in federal court in Huntington.
