News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Feb. 22, 2018, Leopoldo Rubio-Quinonez, of Sinaloa, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson to 78 months in prison. Rubio-Quinonez had previously pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer and reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Defendant used USPS computers to view child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS SANTIAGO, also known as “Carlito," 51, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury in Boston convicted four members of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique yesterday.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today delivered the following opening statement at a Full Committee hearing on Department of Treasury’s Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Today, the National Park Service (NPS) released proposed special regulations to manage off-road vehicle (ORV) and on-road all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which will set the path to soon finalize its ORV Management Plan. The proposed regulations may be found in the Federal Register and will be available to the public to provide comments through April 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of KEVIN JAMES PETROSKE, 36, to 20 years in prison for producing, attempting to produce and possessing images and videos containing child pornography. PETROSKE was found guilty on Aug. 30, 2017, following a three-day trial, on...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - The Justice Department today announced that David H. Howard, 59, of Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, to one count of threatening, intimidating, and interfering with a Muslim family’s enjoyment of their housing rights...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - EM has reached a milestone of moving 9 million tons of uranium mill tailings from the Moab Site in Utah to the dedicated disposal cell near Crescent Junction, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT V. GENTILE, 81, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm offenses, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - The Justice Department today announced that David H. Howard, 59, of Tampa, Florida, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, to one count of threatening, intimidating, and interfering with a Muslim family’s enjoyment of their housing rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced two former executives and two former employees of Berjac of Oregon for their roles in a multi-year Ponzi scheme impacting more than 400 investors.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: This black faux leather writing case is visible in a circa 1873 photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at his study table. It was made by a London stationery manufacturer, and either purchased by Longfellow there on one of his European trips or imported by a Boston dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Kay Ann Locke, of Edmond, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for stealing nearly half a million dollars from her employer and filing a false federal tax return, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Friday, Feb. 23, 2018, Edsel Aaron Badoni, 34, of Blue Gap, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 166 months’ imprisonment. Badoni had previously been convicted at trial of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault resulting in serious bodily injury, and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Possessed Multiple Guns and Methamphetamine. A convicted felon who unlawfully possessed a firearm was sentenced today to a year in federal prison. Brett John Schmerbach, age 44, from Holy Cross, Iowa, received the prison term after a Sept. 24, 2017, guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation targeting firearm and drug trafficking in Chad Brown neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Craig Miller, a 34 year old, resident of Foley, Alabama was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service. During the first six months of his probationary term, Miller will be on home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court yesterday for cyberstalking his former girlfriend while on release after being charged with physically assaulting the same victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the Department of the Interior to produce documents it has been withholding from Congress since last October...
