News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to 56 months in prison for making a false distress call and threats to the U.S. Coast Guard.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park is recruiting for up to three GS-04 Park Guide (Student Trainee) temporary positions for the summer of 2018 as part of the National Park Service’s Pathways Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Justimiano Perez Diaz, age 43, of Stigler, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Enticement Of A Minor Using The Internet, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2422(b), punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 2, 2018, Dimas Chavez-Pina (age 29), of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pled guilty to theft of government money, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641, and aggravated identity theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Lewis Bennett, 41, a dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom, was arrested by the FBI on a criminal complaint charging him with second-degree murder of his wife, Isabella Hellman, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Armed Man Robs Wells Fargo's Pojoaque Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Feb. 16, 2018, RACHAEL ALEXANDER, also known as Rachael Vierling, 40, of Stratford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 108 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: RUPERT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that public access to the Southside Canal headgates at Minidoka Dam will be restricted beginning March 5 until April 15 for maintenance on the canal headgates.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced the unsealing of a 69-count indictment charging a total of 12 individuals with operating a “pill mill." The indictment charges the owners, managers and physicians associated with HOPE Clinic, which operated as a purported pain management clinic in Beckley...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The EM Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO), responsible for oversight and management of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), recently announced the selection of two new assistant managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 13, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a thirteen count indictment against Kimberly Bagneski (47) formerly of Waupun, Wisconsin. The Indictment alleges that Bagneski prepared and filed false tax returns to the IRS that claimed false and fictitious claims for taxpayer refunds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2 and 287.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Jonathan Paul Schulz, a 48-year-old resident of Conrad, Montana, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kevin Charles Brown, age 38, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeremy W. Gough, 41, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 32-year old Tacuma Wallace of Ogden, Utah, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Velma White, 32, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to four counts of using a communications facility, a cellphone, to carry out a murder for hire plot, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Dana Nichols, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Democratic leaders sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt today demanding answers on outrageous reports of Pruitt’s luxury travel at taxpayer expense. According to multiple press reports, Pruitt has repeatedly traveled in first-class at taxpayer...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who assaulted a federal employee was sentenced on Feb. 15, 2018, to 21-months in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) released the following joint statement today in response to the Trump administration’s release of a proposed rule that would allow health insurance companies to offer short-term plans that do not comply with Affordable Care Act (ACA) consumer protection standards...
