News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on January 29 Hit-and-Run Incidents in Philadelphia.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: NOAA is 30 days away from launching GOES-S, its newest geostationary weather satellite that will begin providing faster, more accurate data to track storm systems, lightning, wildfires, dense fog, and other hazards that threaten the western U.S., Hawaii, and Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Adam C. Shryock, age 37, of Castle Rock, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Michael J. Watanabe on Jan. 25, 2018 to serve 12 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for willful failure to file a tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Kenneth Bailey, 53, of Weare, New Hampshire was sentenced in federal court to serve 18 months in prison for drug trafficking, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A lawful permanent resident who was residing in Mission has been ordered to prison for possessing with the intent to distribute approximately 50 kilograms of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A McAllen federal jury convicted Leonel Luis Nordhausen-Cuevas, 59, on July 21, 2017, following a two-day trial and less than an hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Terry White, age 22, of Pine Hill, Alabama was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to a violation of 18 USC Section 2252A(a)(2), Receipt of Child Pornography. White was sentenced to serve 84 months imprisonment followed by a life time term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 40-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted he possessed child pornography, announced U.S. Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Scott Brian Griffith, 54, of Port Byron, Ill., has been sentenced to 20 years (240 months) in prison for possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography. U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow sentenced Griffith on Jan. 31, 2018. Judge Darrow also ordered that Griffith remain...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Jennings man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for posting nude photos online and threatening to post more photos of a female victim.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is demanding answers after a recent report found rampant waste in a now-shuttered Defense Department program that obligated over $675 million to assist with Afghanistan economic projects. Many of its 19 projects were fully paid for despite not being completed, and of the $316.3 million directly spent on contracts, 78 percent failed to meet the requirements or only partially met them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh-area resident has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction of conspiracy and passing and uttering counterfeit money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sage Andrew Yazzie, 21, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Farmington, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Santa Fe, N.M., to 144 months in prison for his conviction on voluntary manslaughter and firearms charges. Yazzie will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for a proposed gravel augmentation project to improve spawning habitat for the federally-listed Southern California Steelhead Distinct Population Segment (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Hilton Creek, a small tributary located immediately downstream of Bradbury Dam in Santa Barbara County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Following an eight-day trial before the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, a jury found Randall Keith Beane, 50, of Knoxville, Tennessee, and Heather Ann Tucci-Jarraf, 45, of Pierce County, Washington, guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering. The jury also found Beane guilty of six additional counts of wire and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Dennis Lee Henning (42, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to international parental kidnapping. He faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Assistant United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha, a civil litigator since 2001 and an Assistant United States Attorney since 2005, has been appointed by United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch to serve as the Civil Division Chief for the United States Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Superintendent Cicely Muldoon announced today that Point Reyes National Seashore is seeking applications for this summer's Youth Conservation Corps Program (YCC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Jennings man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for posting nude photos online and threatening to post more photos of a female victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced DELMAN DEWAYNE DIXON, 24, of Jacksonville, NC to 135 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
