News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man was sentenced today to four years in prison for stealing the identity of a deceased child, stealing approximately $33,000 from his employer, and unlawfully purchasing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeks Public’s Help Finding Fugitive Wanted for Murder.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: EM and its cleanup contractors across the DOE complex invest hundreds of millions of dollars each fiscal year in the goods and services of business in the communities and states that host them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Miguel Angel Bravo-Farias, 41, an illegal immigrant, and Hector Terrazas, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 180 months and 156 months in federal prison, respectively, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: On Feb. 13, 2018, Austin K. Sims was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton, Illinois on three charges relating to the unlawful possession and sale of firearms, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Sims, who was charged in a three-count indictment on July 12, 2017, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment and two years of supervised release. Sims previously pled guilty to all three counts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier today admitted that he accepted cash bribes in return for intercepting and delivering parcels containing illegal narcotics, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - On Feb. 12, 2018, a federal jury convicted Jose Alejandro Vasquez Robledo of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder. The guilty verdict followed a three-day jury trial before the Honorable Vince Chhabria, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Today the BLM announced the distribution of almost $300,000 to two counties in western Oregon. These payments follow a formula established in the Coos Bay Wagon Road (CBWR) Act which authorizes payments to western Oregon counties, which remains in effect following the expiration of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Vicki Dyer Middlemas, 48, of Panama City, was arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Panama City after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging her with five counts of wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Thomas Hamet, age 38, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Elisa Rivera Ortiz, 36, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to attempted possession, with intent to distribute, cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 7,000 pills of MDMA, a synthetic drug commonly known as Ecstasy, and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM has named Michael D. Budney as the new manager for the Savannah River Operations Office. He succeeds Jack Craig, who is retiring after 32 years of federal service, including 29 years of leadership in the environmental cleanup program.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke at a hearing about reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) animal drug and generic animal drug user fee agreements. In her remarks Senator...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on Jan. 29, 2018, Chao Thao (age 37) of Milwaukee pleaded guilty to falsely labeling illegal wildlife parts that he imported from the United Kingdom in violation of the Lacey Act, Title 16, United States Code, Sections 3372(d)(1) and 3373(d)(3)(A)(i).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Today, United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against three defendants, charging them with Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone Resulting in Death and Distribution of Oxycodone Resulting in Death. The defendants charged are Jennifer Elizabeth Boyce, 36, of Pryor, Michael Allen Miers, 30, of Pryor, and Christina Ann Dempsey, 39, of Chouteau.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the arrest today of LANCELOT PAUL LUTCHMAN for possession and distribution of child pornography. LUTCHMAN will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman in Manhattan.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore, in partnership with the International Fiber Collaborative (IFC), announces a student art exhibition, Connect with the Rhythms of Nature on the Southern Outer Banks.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) blasted Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke for the announcement late yesterday that the Bureau of Land Management is gutting an Obama-era rule that requires oil and gas companies operating on federal lands to reduce wasteful methane emissions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Maurice Atkinson, a/k/a “Mo," age 30, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, to life imprisonment on Feb. 12, 2018, for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
