News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Pilchak and Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9709 and (619) 546-9721.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: MOAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management is initiating a 30-day scoping period, seeking public comments for the programmatic analysis of potential impacts of issuing and renewing special use permits. Recreation activities to be analyzed include commercial and organized group guided hikes, backpack trips...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of North Versailles, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Peter Nozka, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General (“DOL-OIG"), announced today that ERRON STRACHAN, a former foreman on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bobby Willis, 45, a resident of Kirtland, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on wire fraud charges. The court will be scheduling a hearing to determine the amount of restitution Willis will be required to pay to the victims of his fraudulent conduct.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
Release: CLEVELAND - Transportation Security Administration officers prevented a passenger from bringing a handgun on board a plane at a Cleveland Hopkins International Airport checkpoint yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - After a three-day trial, Arthur Larange Lee Jr., 34, of Gainesville, was convicted late yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Gainesville of sex trafficking by force and use of a facility of interstate commerce to promote prostitution. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Travis Marcel Hickman (32, Bradenton) to 15 years and 1 day in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He pleaded guilty on June 13, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Ensuring America’s Veterans Receive the Best from SSA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that an Oakdale inmate pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Today, Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) led Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee in sending a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for immediate hearings examining the U.S. election infrastructure after a senior U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official revealed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today that District Judge Claire V. Eagan sentenced Jerrica Ann Renee Teehee Lackey, 30, of Tulsa, to serve 300 months in federal prison for Sexual Exploitation of a Child.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today cheered the inclusion of several Finance Committee policies he championed as a part of the recently announced budget deal. These include the CHRONIC Care Act, the Family First Act, a further extension of funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - DANIELLE DANA LAYMAN, 37, of Ponca City, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to possessing the toxin ricin, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is announcing the closure of the Sanford Yake Boat Ramp and Parking Area due to damages sustained in the parking lot and the constant eroding of the Permian Red-Bed bank beside the existing boat ramp. Effective Monday, February 5, 2018, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area has closed the site to the visiting public for safety and rehabilitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Executive Assistant U. S. Attorney Linda Frakes (619) 546-6793 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Dylan Aste (619) 546-7621.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced JEREMY DORMAN, age 31, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and JUSTIN SWANK, age 37, of New Orleans, Louisiana, to 65 months and 40 months imprisonment, respectively, after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Carlos Daniel Chavez-Lozano, age 27, of Mesa, Arizona, pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years or more than life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. David N. Cicilline, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Regualtory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Traded Heroin for a Loaded.38-Caliber Handgun.
