News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Roy Sahachaisere Was Convicted at Trial of Fraudulently Inflating the Value of Penny Stocks.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting March 1. This change happens yearly as days become longer and sunset is later in the day. The Visitor Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Arkansas man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for aiding and abetting computer intrusions.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on...
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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. - A previously deported Mexican man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, and re-entering the U.S. after having been deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that as part of the Elder Fraud Initiative launched by the Department of Justice, he has appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney Aunnie Steward as the Elder Fraud Coordinator for the District of Alaska.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) introduced a bill to expand access to evidence-based treatment for opioid use disorders for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hampton man was sentenced today to over 14 years in prison for armed robbery and obstructing his federal prosecution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher Chase, 50, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to attempted receipt of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Roland Kyzer, age 39, of Binghamton, New York, was found guilty today of receipt and possession of child pornography following a three-day jury trial.
By Homeland 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: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida announced the largest ever coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in the Department of Justice’s history involving more than 250 charged defendants around the globe who victimized more than a million...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Roland Kyzer Found Guilty of Possessing Child Pornography For A Second Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Des Moines, Iowa - On Feb. 22, 2018, David Marken Aikoriegie, of Des Moines, appeared in federal court before United States Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer and pleaded guilty to charges related to a series of gun store burglaries in the Des Moines area, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, NY-The FBI Westchester County Safe Streets Task Force is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a man wanted in connection with an investigation into the Hell’s Angels outlaw motorcycle gang operating New Rochelle, New York. Agents and U.S. Marshals are searching for Christopher...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that William Curtis Howell, 61, a former supervisory deputy jailer at the Kentucky River Regional Jail (KRRJ) in Perry County, Kentucky, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison related to his role in violently assaulting a pre-trial detainee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Troy Bennett (30, Orange County) to 25 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for failing to register the firearm, a short-barreled rifle, with the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Due to his prior multiple felony convictions, he qualified for an increased penalty under the Armed Career Criminal Act.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - As the Coachella Valley begins to move into the spring season, the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Visitor Center has initiated the following visitor center schedule:.
