News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JARON BIAS, age 25, of New Orleans, has been charged in a multiple count indictment which charges him in a heroin conspiracy for distributing heroin in the Black Pearl neighborhood in New Orleans and in Jefferson Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Agrees to 60-Month Prison Term. NEWARK, N.J. - A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained more than $24 million from the Post 9/11 GI Bill, a federal education benefits program designed to help veterans who served in the armed forces following the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY-- Women’s Rights National Historical Park (NHP) is pleased to announce plans for Convention Days 2018 and is currently welcoming community input and participation from area organizations, businesses, and community members. 2018 offers a unique opportunity to explore the power of words...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - After several months of closure due to storm damage, the Mesquite Springs Campground in Death Valley National Park has again opened for public use. The access road was damaged due to flooding in July 2018. As repair work was being completed a strange “microburst" storm with strong...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man was sentenced today to five years and 10 months in federal prison for a child pornography crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jeffrey Scott Beard, 37, of Clendenin, previously pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Beard was also ordered to serve the remainder of his life on federal supervised release after completion of his prison term, and will additionally be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Wendi E. Detter, age 44, of York, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information on Jan. 31, 2018, with wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted an Ashburn woman today on charges of engaging in a fraud scheme that resulted in an attempted loss of approximately $182,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Hart County, Kentucky, felon was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison followed by three years of Supervised Release, by United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers, in United States District Court yesterday, for unlawful possession of firearms announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Mexican nationals, illegally residing in Lexington, were convicted by a federal jury yesterday, following a two-day trial in U.S. District Court. Fernando Rafael Lara Salas, who had previously used the alias of Jesus Ruiz Vega, age 40, and Jorge Macias Pedroza, age 30, were each...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Andrew Aaron Kutt (46, Bradenton) to 10 years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 3, 2017.
