News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced former Latin Kings game member Anibal Angel Rios-Mulero (33, Tampa) to nine years and nine months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chasity Chadae Stone, of Brooklyn, Maryland, was sentenced today to 10 months incarceration for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Justin Thomas Morales, a/k/a “Speedy," age 37, of Wichita, Kansas, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota which began on February 5, 2018. The verdict was returned February 7, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the below statement following the passing of his longtime friend and committee Staff Director Ray Baum...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement after House passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Houston man was sentenced Thursday to 96 months in prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operated in St. Mary Parish.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 582, the Kari’s Law Act of 2017, and S. 96, the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2017. Both bills originated out of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Duson was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud a Eunice pipeline company out of more than $2.8 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 582, the Kari’s Law Act of 2017, and S. 96, the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2017. Both bills originated out of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Thursday, the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials will hold a hearing to examine the implementation of Positive Train Control (PTC) on America’s freight and passenger rail network. The Subcommittee will hear testimony from representatives of government, safety, industry, and labor on the status of this important safety technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Charges were unsealed today against six individuals for their alleged participation in an elaborate international advance fee and money laundering scheme. The scheme allegedly involved the impersonation of Branch Banking & Trust (BB&T) and JPMorgan Chase (Chase) executives, the fabrication...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Colorado Business Owner Indicted for Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Houston man was sentenced Thursday to 96 months in prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operated in St. Mary Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Francisco Nicolas Lucas-Miranda, age 23, of Guatemala, was sentenced today to a term of imprisonment of time served (145 days) for misuse of an identification document, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Edward Payan, Acting Chief Patrol Agent, Buffalo Sector-U.S. Border Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Jan. 23, 2018, Roger Duane Goodwin, age 59, of Windsor Heights, Iowa, was charged with seven counts of mail fraud announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Todd Beckman was sentenced to 240 months in prison for his role in kidnapping a Maplewood man.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: The indictment alleges the illegal drug trafficking resulted in a death.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mohsen Kassem Abdulrab, 58, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of trafficking in counterfeit goods, was sentenced to two years supervised release and fined $2,000 by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyo., has prepared the February snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man who was convicted of conspiracy to burn down a local business and extortion was sentenced Thursday to 151 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
