News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Discover and Help the Wild Birds in Your Community.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New York (“NYPD"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Don’t miss your chance to visit one of northern New Mexico’s most iconic locations-the Forked Lightning Ranch. On Saturday, February 24th, Pecos National Historical Park will open up the Ranch House from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for visitors to explore at their leisure. The Forked Lightning...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of BRANDON MARK BJERKNES, 35, to 300 months in prison for sexually exploiting dozens of children. BJERKNES, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2017, to one count of coercion and enticement of a minor and one count of production of child pornography, was sentenced on February 6, 2018, before Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Noah Ray Evans, 35, of Red Oak, Texas, was sentenced this week before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 170 months in federal prison on a federal child pornography charge, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Black Hawk, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet was sentenced on February 5, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Joseph Howard Davis, 34, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 260 months in prison on drug trafficking and firearms offenses. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees also ordered Davis to serve 10 years under court supervision upon completion...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of federal firearm violations, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: On Dec. 04, 2017 a juvenile black bear, which was seriously injured by a motor vehicle four months prior, was returned to Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area. Due to the release of the bear in a remote area of the park, during evening hours, this activity was not open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Fort McDermitt, Nevada, resident was charged today in federal court for allegedly murdering two individuals on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Rabobank NA Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Pay Over $360 Million.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s comments that stopping Russia’s meddling in the 2018 election will be “very difficult"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Rhyan Leigh Smith, 26, of Warm Springs, Oregon, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of assault with the intent to commit murder in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 113(a) and 1153, and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: A Latvian man pleaded guilty yesterday for participating in a lucrative “scareware" hacking scheme that targeted visitors to the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s website. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division; United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker of the District of Minnesota; and Special Agent in Charge Richard T. Thornton of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Minneapolis Field Office made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Pittsburgh’s North Side have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Noah Ray Evans, 35, of Red Oak, Texas, was sentenced this week before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 170 months in federal prison on a federal child pornography charge, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Kenyatta Biafra Bellamy (48, Davenport) to 24 months in federal prison for theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered him to pay $40,232.34 in restitution, the proceeds of the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A registered sex offender serving lifetime federal supervised release, having been convicted of possession and distribution of child pornography in 2011, and sentenced to 84 months in federal prison followed by lifetime supervised release, was ordered detained in federal custody today, less than 5 months after completing his term of incarceration on a criminal complaint charging him with possession child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 14 at 10:30 a.m. to examine the administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request for the Treasury Department and to discuss the implementation of the largest tax overhaul in more than three decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2018
News Release: A Youngstown man was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for drug trafficking, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Trevor Velinor.
