News from February 2018
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced 330,882,751 recreation visits in 2017 - almost identical to the record-setting 330,971,689 recreation visits in 2016. While numbers were steady, visitors actually spent more time in parks during their 2017 visits compared to 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Maurice Johnson, Jr., 29, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for possessing heroin with intent to distribute it and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Johnson pleaded guilty to these charges on December 6, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, man was arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport this morning (Feb. 28) after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer detected a loaded pistol in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, a complaint was unsealed charging Victor Kingsley, a Brooklyn resident, with using a weapon of mass destruction that resulted in the death of a Queens resident in July 2017, and with the unlawful transportation of explosive materials. Kingsley used the explosive...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant admitted to “hunting" for and shooting at rival gang members.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sable Daniel, age 29, and Russell Whitmore, age 34, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged yesterday in a four-count superseding indictment with additional charges that both Daniel and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 46 months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 29-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced that Shaquan M. Shingledecker, 23, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin, was sentenced to 30 months by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant will serve his federal sentence once he completes a 24 month sentence he is currently serving for a New York State Parole violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man was sentenced today to a total of 25 months in prison for his role in a $290,000 income tax return fraud conspiracy and for violation of his supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: An Akron man previously convicted of attempted murder with a firearms specification was indicted for illegally having a firearm, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A federal jury in Lexington has found William J. Hampton, of Lincoln County, Kentucky, guilty of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The jury convicted Hampton on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, following a 2-day trial in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two doctors were arrested this morning on federal fraud charges stemming from more than $250 million in allegedly fraudulent bills related to the 1-800-GET-THIN Lap-Band surgery business.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is raising concerns over what the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is doing to ensure quality care for veterans using an eye care screening program that is intended to expand eye care for veterans-particularly in rural areas. However, the St. Louis-based...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Bossier City man was sentenced to 12 years in prison, with two years suspended, for driving drunk and crashing his car into bollards guarding a gate at Barksdale Air Force Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for having a firearm and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONALD PEREZ, 30, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin. Judge Thompson also ordered PEREZ to perform 100 hours of community service while on supervised release.
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: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged four Franklin County men in a 13-count indictment alleging that they conspired to distribute heroin and sell guns illegally.
