News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Julian Ruiz was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy and for using or possessing firearms in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down earlier today by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office has posted the National Historic Trails annual monitoring report online at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Fails to report over $300,000 in income from grain sales.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and highest ranking woman in the United States Senate, issued the following statement in response to Vice President Mike Pence’s prediction that access to legal abortions could end “in our time."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is now accepting applications for $4 million in grants to support the preservation of buildings on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced sentences in two unrelated cases involving growing marijuana in national forests. In addition to the marijuana charges, both defendants were sentenced for depredation of federal property. Not only are the marijuana grow sites an illegal trespass...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Grafton Chemical Bank Robber Arrested. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Grafton Police Department announce the arrest of Matthew J. Kroffke, 37 years old, for armed bank robbery. On Feb. 23, 2018, the Chemical Bank located at 351 North Main Street, Grafton, Ohio was robbed by a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Kountze, Texas man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to robbery charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 52-year-old Dallas man has been sentenced to federal prison for investment fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Leonel Chavez Vargas, 29, an illegal alien from Mexico living in Neeville, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 70 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and unlawful...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Washington, New Jersey, man was convicted today of sex crimes, extortion and stalking - including asking a minor girl to produce explicit images of herself and threatening a second girl if she didn’t agree to meet and date him, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Naquan Eley, 33, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to six years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." He pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Billings, Montana -- The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, Proposed First Increment Extension. Reclamation, working with the states of Wyoming, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., issued the following statement on President Trump’s transmission to the Senate of his nomination of Amy Karpel to serve on the International Trade Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Branden Furnari, 31, of South Bend, Indiana was charged with possession of a firearm (destructive device) not registered in the National Firearms Registration Record.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: The owner and operator of numerous Miami, Florida-area home health agencies was sentenced to 240 months in prison today for his role in a $66 million conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice today announced the indictment of Michael Ron David Kadar, 19, who holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship, in three jurisdictions for hate crimes and other offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keith A. Griffith, 35, a federal inmate, was sentenced today to four years in prison by United States Chief District Court Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for bribing a corrections officer at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky (“FMC Lexington"), a federal correctional facility, to smuggle prohibited items into the prison. This sentence is to be added to the term of imprisonment Griffith was already serving for narcotics related offenses.
