News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Springfield, Ore. - Today the BLM announced a temporary closure of the Carpenter Bypass Mountain Bike Trail area, located west of Lorane in Lane County, Oregon. The temporary closure will begin on April 26, 2018, and prohibit all unauthorized visitors from walking, hiking, bicycling, or driving on any...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: “Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing on ensuring Social Security helps America’s veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Sulphur man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of three defendants for their involvement in a years-long, multi-million dollar heath care fraud and tax conspiracy. THURLEE BELFREY, 52, ROYLEE BELFREY, 52, and LANORE BELFREY, 43, each entered guilty pleas on Sept. 14, 2017, and were sentenced yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A couple from Fresno, Cal. has been sentenced to federal prison for drug and firearm offenses. Chief U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell formally sentenced the couple on Wednesday, February 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A federal judge sentenced 33-year-old Ashak Victor Nasief Wesa to 150 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a synthetic marijuana distribution scheme based in San Antonio, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Woodrow Pressey, Jr. (47, Bradenton) guilty of possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and possessing five firearms and several rounds of ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison.
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: PITTSBURGH - A privately owned for-profit hospice company and its owner and Chief Executive Officer agreed to pay the United States $1,240,000 to resolve allegations that the company had fraudulently billed Medicare and Medicaid for hospice services for patients who were ineligible for hospice, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Department of State's six-month review of the global gag rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to his role in a conspiracy to traffic counterfeit steroids, including testosterone and trenbolone.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is partnering with the Knoxville Track Club to hold three trail runs on the scenic Oscar Blevins Nature Trail during the 18th Annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing a pistol found in his residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Mark Herbert Koenig, age 36, of Arvada, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve one year and a day in federal prison for possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Dana Carter announced. Koenig was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2018, following his entering a guilty plea on Oct. 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A man and woman from Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were charged today with conspiring to distribute heroin pills that were made to look like 30-milligram tablets of oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marguin Sanchez, 23, of California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to employ unlawful aliens before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison after an armed carjacking of a Cleveland grandmother last Mother’s Day, law enforcement officials said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-Va), Rep. Steve Russell (R-OK) and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) sent letters to the US Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics, Inc., Michigan State University, Twistars USA Gymnastics Club and Karolyi Ranch regarding sexual assault within the U.S. gymnastics system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, DAN PIZARRO, age 48, a resident of California, was sentenced today for his role in conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and heroin in the New Orleans area. Following a 4-day trial in August 2017, a federal jury found PIZARRO guilty of the sole count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine and a quantity of heroin.
