News from February 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Jason E. Mininger, 50, of Folsom, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Schemed to defraud the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice and the federal government,.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Commissioner Kautter: On Feb. 15, 2018, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) published a report assessing the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) implementation of screening procedures for employees with conduct or tax compliance concerns when issuing awards. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Mark Klaassen announced today that Arapahoe resident Cameron Means-Goodman has been convicted in federal court. A jury found Means-Goodman guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, Using and Carrying a Firearm During and In...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Feb. 15, 2018 - The U.S. Census Bureau today released the State and Local Government Snapshot, a new data visualization that allows users to explore the revenues, expenditures and employment of state and local governments. It combines several years of data from multiple government surveys in one place.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Candy May Gonzales, 33, of Canutillo, Texas pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to cocaine trafficking charges arising from the seizure of 4.06 (8.95 pounds) of cocaine at the U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint near Las Cruces.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New York, (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Mexican woman who aided and abetted her husband in absconding from justice in Nebraska and assumed a new identity in Iowa was sentenced on Feb. 14, 2018, to three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Mansfield man was charged with stalking, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Harrison, Nebraska, man convicted of Conversion of Mortgaged Property was sentenced on February 7, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 11 years imprisonment, five years supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $15,030, on his convictions for attempted robbery and theft from interstate shipment, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is offering two outdoor events in February that take advantage of southern New Mexico’s outstanding public land resources. These events include:.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - Glacier National Park in partnership with the Glacier National Park Conservancy has completed an initial fixed-wing overflight of the Sperry Chalet dormitory building to check on its status. The chalet dormitory building was badly burned during the Sprague Fire on Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Ricky Lee Richardson, Jr., 41, of Stockton, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

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: Gulfport, Miss. - Marlon Alvarez-Campos, 30, a citizen of El Salvador, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to the crime of transporting illegal aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of U.S.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A Concord Township man was indicted for child pornography crimes, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Wanted: 7th-12th Graders for Chasing the Dragon Poster Contest.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in federal court Tuesday afternoon for his role in a fraud scheme he devised to obtain government construction contracts set aside for Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Businesses.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Timothy Whittington, Jr. (37, Kansas) to eight years in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon with the intent to cause bodily harm. The Court ordered the sentence to run consecutively to Whittington’s existing sentence for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, which he was serving at the time he committed the offense.