News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the Western District of Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction of fraud conspiracy; mail fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to commit money laundering; trafficking or using unauthorized access devices aggregating $1,000 or more (attempt); and possession of 15 or more access devices, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Ohio resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of willfully injuring or committing depredation against any property of the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that JON E. MONTROLL, a/k/a “Ukyo" was taken into federal custody today...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. yesterday sentenced Joshua Alan Dunlap (38, South Carolina) to 20 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and traveling to engage in sexual conduct with a minor. The court also ordered him to forfeit an iPhone, which had been used in furtherance of the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced today the sentencing of a Roanoke man who downloaded photographs and images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A previously convicted felon was charged today for possession of a 12-inch pipe bomb that was found in a North Las Vegas house, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JEREMY RICHARD LUNDIN, 31, to 110 months in prison for operating a Ponzi scheme through which he stole more than $1 million from individual investors. LUNDIN, who pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2017, was sentenced today before...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Megan Fox, age 31, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison on Feb. 20, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for conspiring with others to distribute heroin in Luzerne County during February through November 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Local children and teens who like art and wildflowers will have a chance to combine both in Shenandoah National Park’s annual “Youth Art in the Park" wildflower art contest. The contest is held in conjunction with the Park’s annual Wildflower Weekend May 5-6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Stephanie DeBoer Spent the Money on Credit Cards, Lingerie, Katy Perry Tickets.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - An illegal alien wanted for aggravated homicide in Mexico, and who has been previously deported six times, was deported again Tuesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Department’s ongoing non-compliance with federal requirements, outlined in the agency’s most recent financial audit for Fiscal Year 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Department’s ongoing non-compliance with federal requirements, outlined in the agency’s most recent financial audit for Fiscal Year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Felipe T. Castillo, 38, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 21 months in prison for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Castillo will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Helping Communities Balance Enforcement and Patient Safety."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE - David Prejean, a former Sergeant in the K-9 Unit of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office (IPSO), pleaded guilty today to assaulting a pre-trial detainee at the Iberia Parish Jail (IPJ) by commanding his K-9 to bite the detainee, and by striking the detainee, all without justification, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook for the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: Second Conviction for Using Fraudulent Documents.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is temporarily closing approximately 1,000 acres of public lands located off Miller Road in Buckeye, Arizona, to ensure public safety and in order to address damage to critical West Valley telecommunications infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Update on the Restoration of Puerto Rico’s Electric Infrastructure."
