News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested six defendants who are charged with conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl in the midlands of South Carolina. Based on the investigation, agents seized over sixteen pounds of methamphetamine, nine pounds of heroin, and three pounds of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on Feb. 22, 2018, United States District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams sentenced Bobby Earl Grantham, Jr., age 49, of Tifton, GA, to 150 months imprisonment for the offense of conspiracy to possess with intent...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Federal Spending Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Gary Peters of Michigan, and Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management Subcommittee Ranking Member Heidi Heitkamp of North...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: (ORLANDO, Fla.) - Jimmy Remy (30, Miami), Edson (40, Orlando), Raymond Mike (Orlando, 41), Kissinger St. (36, Orlando), and Gerardson (33, Orlando) were found guilty by federal jury of separate counts of conspiracy to distribute, and distribution or possession with the intent to distribute more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY. - Sergio Acosta, 28, and Jose Luis Luviano Lopez, 36, both of Montgomery, Alabama, were sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Acosta was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment. Luis Luviano was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Physician Gary L. Marder, D.O., 61, of Palm Beach County, and owner and operator of the Allergy, Dermatology & Skin Cancer Centers in Port St. Lucie and Okeechobee, was sentenced yesterday in relation to his guilty plea to the crimes of obstruction of a health care investigation and health care fraud.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Manuel Antonio Severino, 44, of West Palm Beach, was found guilty by a jury of thirteen counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2), two counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A(a)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This afternoon, Chief Judge William P. Johnson of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico administered the oath of office to John C. Anderson as the 46th U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, during a private ceremony in the federal courthouse in Santa Fe, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anne Louise Hall, of St. Marys, West Virginia, was ordered to pay more than $54,000 to the Social Security Administration, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eduardo Salinas-Garcia, 44, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 10 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday afternoon in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced ROY LEE TERRY, 53, of Oxford to 101 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management concluded a wild horse gather on February 23 within the overpopulated Triple B Complex in Eastern Nevada. The BLM removed 1,294 wild horses. Twenty-eight mares were treated with PZP and released, along with 28 studs, back to the range. Additionally, 3 mares and foals were released, for a total of 62.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: On Feb. 22, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an Order enjoining the rule that postponed certain requirements in the waste prevention rule. See Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation: Delay and Suspension of Certain...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to federal narcotics and firearms charges and was then sentenced, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Savario Beshawn Champion, 29, of Pensacola, was sentenced this week to 147 months in prison after pleading guilty on December 5, 2017, to carjacking, possessing a firearm during a violent crime, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Stellaluna," a book about a bat that lives with a family of birds. Participants will hear how the animals accept each other’s differences.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: DNA and Security Footage Linked Defendant to the Crime.
