News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed approval of annual transfers of up to 15,000 acre-feet per year of available Central Valley Project water supplies over a nine-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Dube, 48, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was sentenced to five years of probation and a $16,500 fine for mailing threatening communications, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Matthew Adame, 25, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 60 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Adame will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Mark Day, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri will serve 138 months in federal prison for possession with intent to deliver heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Following his prison sentence, Day will be on federal supervised release for 4 years. Day has been in custody since January 4, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Commissioner Kautter: . According to the American Hospital Association (AHA), there are over 2,845 hospitals in the United States operating as nonprofits. These nonprofit hospitals qualify for tax exemption from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as charitable organizations. To qualify for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 14, 2018, federal authorities arrested Ricardo Barrios-Calderon and Alfredo Santiago-Rosario charging them with child pornography related offenses, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the investigation that led to the arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Defendants Misused Money Obtained To Fund Mortgage Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Chicago man who stole more than $36,000 worth of merchandise from various home improvement stores across four states was sentenced on Feb. 14, 2018, to eight months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced it has reached an agreement with the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (Honolulu or the City) and its contracted towing company, All Island Automotive Towing (All Island Towing), to remedy alleged violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Phoenix District is planning to conduct a slash-pile burn located approximately 2 miles northeast of Congress, Ariz., near the Junction of Highway 89 and County Road 62. BLM plans to burn the slash-pile for one day between February 15 through February 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A second superseding indictment returned here today charges 23 individuals alleged to be members and associates of the Columbus clique of MS-13 in a racketeering conspiracy. The most recent indictment includes crimes that could make some of the defendants eligible for the death penalty.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: The Honorable Peter DeFazio. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Full committee Hearing on. “Oversight of Positive Train Control Implementation in the United States". Feb. 15, 2018. In 2005, a Norfolk Southern freight train transporting chlorine in Graniteville, South Carolina, was diverted...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - An illegal alien from El Salvador, who is member of the violent street gang MS-13, was sentenced Wednesday to 366 days in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that United States District Court Judge Kristine G. Baker sentenced Waymon Weeams, 37, of Rockwall, Texas, to federal prison for his role in a widespread scheme to steal money intended for feeding children in low income areas in Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kevin Wayne Sanders Jr., age 29, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 65 months imprisonment and 6 years supervised release for Distribution Of Oxycodone, in violation of Title 21, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Clint D. Jackson, 26, of Elyria, on multiple firearms and narcotics offenses, said United States Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Matthew Stoney Olson was sentenced to 84 months in prison, 20 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Kylee D. Black, 34, of Olney, IL, was sentenced on Feb. 14, 2018, to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Denna Chambers, aka Denna Rice, 35, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to defraud the United States, United States Attorney McGregor Scott announced. Co-defendant, Starsheka Mixon, 34, of Pinole, previously pleaded guilty to the same charge on February 8, 2018.
