News from February 2018
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 157 producers and 6 importers to the 2018 National Pork Producers Delegate Body. The members appointed to serve a one-year terms are.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A West Tennessee man has been sentenced to 300 months in federal prison for distributing heroin resulting in a fatal overdose. D. Michael Dunavant, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a New Hope man on drug-trafficking and firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: For His Role In A Bank Fraud Conspiracy.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the State Department’s plan to remove language on women’s rights and discrimination from its annual global human rights report.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced the return of a 19-count indictment against 9 individuals for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and other offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MITCHELL ANDERSON, 53, of Bradenton, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced David Paul Lynch (56, Venice) to 330 years in federal prison for traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and for possessing, receiving, and producing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his home in Venice, Florida, as well as computers and other electronic devices that he had used to commit the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that five federal inmates were indicted separately yesterday by a federal grand jury for possession of a weapon in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, KY. - James Allen Eapmon, 31, of Florence, Ky., was sentenced to life in prison today, by United States District Judge David Bunning, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ALLEGED SERIAL BANK ROBBER INDICTED FOR FIVE BANK ROBBERIES.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Largely Responsible For Introducing Molly To The Nashville Drug Market.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Timothy B. Riley, age 48, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with conspiring to launder stolen drug proceeds. Riley was formerly employed as a Narcotics Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing JAYSEN LANE HEYER, 39, to 175 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. HEYER pleaded guilty on September 8, 2017, and was sentenced today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Gregory Greer (35) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Greer was indicted on Sept. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - On Feb. 21, 2018, Daniel Henriksen was sentenced to federal prison for illegally possessing a gun that was used in an unintentional shooting when a four-year old boy shot himself in the head and died. Henriksen was the fourth defendant sentenced for a federal firearm offense involving a gun that was used in an unintentional shooting in the Northern District of Iowa since August 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men have been arrested on charges of scheming to avoid the payment of federal excise taxes on duty-free cigarettes that should have been sent abroad, but instead were diverted to local retail outlets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Attack Took Place in Courthouse Cellblock.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found Gregory Greer (35) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Greer was indicted on Sept. 21, 2017.
