News from February 2018
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Two Springfield men were arrested today and charged in separate indictments in federal court in Springfield with distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrest and unsealing of a complaint charging NICHOLAS JOSEPH GENOVESE...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone National Park seeks comments from the public on a project to replace windows in the historic Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel. As part of a seismic stabilization and interior/exterior rehabilitation project, the park proposes to replace 172 one-over-one, double-hung wood windows with new wood windows that duplicate the same style on the guest wing. The project will improve room ventilation and energy efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Jan. 31, 2018, Stanley Eugene Green, Jr., age 42, of Takoma Park, Maryland, pleaded guilty to Distribution of Heroin, and Possession of Firearms in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. The guilty plea was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Saquan Parker, age 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 180 months’ imprisonment for firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Defendant Got Into House Under Ruse of Marijuana Sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Amaury Guzman-Escobar, age 31, of Hazleton, Luzerne County, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to serve two years in prison on the charge of conspiracy to make false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Jan. 31, 2018, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Evans Samuel Santos Diaz, age 33, of Pittston, Pennsylvania, to 33 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: YONI LOPEZ-ROJAS, age 25, a citizen Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to a one-count bill of information for illegal use of a Social Security Number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Tuesday, Feb. 13, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, invites the public to participate in a free, 45 minute program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: 75-Count Indictment Charges Former Office Manager of Otis Mutual Domestic Water Consumers and Sewage Works Association with Perpetrating Scheme to Defraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Eddy County Sheriff Mark Cage announced the arraignment of Lori V. Whitaker, 54, of Carlsbad, N.M., on wire fraud charges at the federal courthouse in Las Cruces, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, FL-The FBI and Seminole Police need the public’s help in identifying the suspect who threatened a cashier and robbed the Poker Room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino early this morning, Feb. 2, 2018. Investigators say just after 2:00 a.m., the suspect pointed a handgun at a cashier...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Harrisburg - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that it withdrew an appeal of an April 20, 2017 district court decision that included findings of fact and conclusions of law, and its verdict and judgment on May 9, 2017.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sharing new information and concerns regarding China’s market for heparin, an essential medicine used in open heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Release Date: 2/2/18. Contacts: Jody Mays, jody_mays@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 115. NR18-03. World War II and Gulf War POWs to Speak at National POW Museum 20th Anniversary Event. Event to occur at Andersonville National Historic Site on Sunday, April 8, 2018. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - The National...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Richard Allen Evans (50), of Arvada, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in federal prison for bank robbery, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. In addition to 20 years in prison, Evans is subject to 3 years of supervised release once he completes his sentence. There is no parole in the federal system.
