News from February 2018
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement in support of the administration’s announcement to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: (WESTON, Fla.) - On Feb. 1, 2018, Gustavo Falcon, of Miami, member of the Falcon-Magluta organization, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, an offense punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Prior to his arrest in April 2017, Falcon was a fugitive for 26 years.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: HEADQUARTERS, TUPELO, MS: “During 2017, the Natchez Trace Parkway experienced an overall significant increase in the number of recreational visits over the 2016 figures," stated Superintendent Mary Risser. “In 2016, the total visitation was 5,891,315 compared to 6,326,062 counted in 2017 an increase of 434,747 more visitors who used the Parkway throughout the year.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STEPHAN MITCHEL THOMAS, age 22, of Holden, Louisiana, was charged with federal firearms violations and Hobbs Act robberies in a seven-count indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MISAEL BERNAL, age 32, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged in a one-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: New Haven, Conn. - A Russian national has been extradited from Spain and will be arraigned later today in Connecticut on charges stemming from his alleged operation of the Kelihos botnet - a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers, which he allegedly used to facilitate malicious activities including harvesting login credentials, distributing bulk spam e-mails, and installing ransomware and other malicious software, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network (SPAWN) has prepared the Lagunitas Creek Floodplain and Riparian Restoration Project Environmental Assessment and Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (EA and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Olivia Halvorson, 29, Browntown, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 54 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Halvorson pleaded guilty to this charge on November 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Tara Lenich Fabricated Judicial Orders and Forged Judges’ Signatures to Illegally Monitor Telephone Conversations and Text Messages.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment last week charging nine Houston residents with offenses related to eight violent robberies in North Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Julian Thomas, 40, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 20 years in federal prison. Judge Conley imposed 13 years for armed bank robbery and a consecutive seven years for brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) will co-host the 3rd Annual FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium on March 6-8, 2018 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s Yuma Field Office invites the public to participate in the development of the Lower Colorado River (LCR) Travel Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (TMP/EA).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement after Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar travelled to Indiana to announce the approval of that state’s Medicaid waiver, which includes numerous policies that would harm Americans who count on the program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury today named an Aliso Viejo man in an indictment that accuses him of traveling to China to engage in illegal sexual activity with a 16-year-old and taking sexually explicit photographs of the victim.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today applauded the Trump Administration for its new effort to ease regulations on the prescribing of buprenorphine, an opioid addiction treatment, and requested that it consider more ways to expand Missourians’ access to the drug. Her outreach follows a Joplin Globe report that only approximately three percent of eligible doctors in the state can prescribe it.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City police officer today admitted accepting corrupt payments in exchange for helping employers operate at worksites without the required presence of an off-duty police officer, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man from Liberal was sentenced Thursday to 72 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Dominican national convicted in U.S. District Court in Providence of trafficking nearly 2,000 grams of fentanyl faces deportation proceedings, having been sentenced on Tuesday to time served, 24 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Forged Documents to Sell Damaged Cars on Craigslist.
