News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Dawn Angela Cimmino, a/k/a “Dawn Frazier", age 41, of Bowling Green, Florida, entered a guilty plea on Jan. 31, 2018, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Ms. Cimmino entered her plea in Valdosta, Georgia, before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Court Judge.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ROCKY FORD, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Pioneer Health Care Center of Rocky Ford for failing to protect employees from violence in the workplace. The nursing home faces proposed penalties of $9,054.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Arcata Field Office is holding a public meeting and accepting public comments regarding management needs and projects that would benefit off-highway vehicle recreation on public lands. The public meeting will be held at 6 p.m., on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the BLM Arcata Field Office, 1695 Heindon Rd., Arcata.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Brandon Jacob Cochran, 26, formerly from Portage, Michigan, pled guilty before the Hon. Ellen S. Carmody, U.S. Magistrate Judge, to producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Cochran faces a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WAYNE BRADBURY, 33, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for drug distribution and money laundering offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today a settlement with Cumberland County, PA, under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act to improve physical accessibility at the county’s polling places for individuals who use wheel chairs and other mobility aids, and for individuals who are blind or have vision impairments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Money supported a family owned business, personal expenses and gambling activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Tommy Hanson, 54, of Fairbanks, was sentenced on Friday, Feb 2, 2018, to serve 20 years in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for the receipt of child pornography. In November 2017, a federal jury found Hanson guilty after a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C., man pleaded guilty today to forcibly sex trafficking a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JARED DANIEL JONES, 23, to 360 months in prison for the murder of two individuals, including one minor victim. JONES, who pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the second degree, was sentenced on Feb. 2, 2018, before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BASIN WELLS, age 30, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty to both counts of the indictment charging him, respectively, in count 1 with conspiracy to possess heroin with the intent to distribute and in count 2 with with possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Beginning March 8, 2018, Pecos National Historical Park will be offering fishing permits for interested anglers along the Pecos River. The 2018 spring fishing season will run from March 8 through April 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm was sentenced on February 5, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: North Carolina Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing False Tax Refund Claims.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) this week requested feedback on how to improve Medicare, Medicaid and human services programs responses to the opioid epidemic.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: (Miles City, Mont.) - In continuing efforts to promote America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has opened a 15 day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located within North and South Dakota. The parcels nominated are in Bowman and Divide counties in North Dakota, and Fall River and Harding counties in South Dakota. The 15-day period will end on Feb. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Valencia resident convicted of filing a federal tax return that failed to report income that he received by having his company pay for many of his personal expenses was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A local woman has entered a guilty plea to 12 counts of mail and wire fraud and four counts of filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: On January 4, 2018, Bobby A. Commons, a/k/a "Blood," 44, of Herrin, was charged by one-count indictment with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Donald S. Boyce announced today. The indictment alleges the offense occurred on November...
