News published on Federal Newswire in January 2018

News from January 2018


Pittsburgh Heroin Dealer Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ incarceration, followed by four years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


Secret Shopper Bandit Press Release

News Release: Secret Shopper Bandit Press Release. The Lakewood Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, and the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are investigating the following robberies of numerous King Soopers stores: * King Soopers. 1545 South Kipling St. Lakewood, Colorado. 07/18/17, 6:05...


News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood and Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.


News Release: FBI Releases Age-Progressed Photos of Four Most Wanted Terrorists from Pan Am Flight 73 Hijacking.


News Release: Michigan Clinic Office Manager Pleads Guilty to $131 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme Involving Unnecessary Prescription of Controlled Substances.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years’ incarceration, followed by four years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: Two men from Northwest Ohio were indicted on firearms charges, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.


News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMES SIGLAR, age 40, of Lockport, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.


Project to Replace Public Boat Ramps on Ocracoke Island Beginning Next Week

News Release: A project to replace the National Park Service public boat ramps on Ocracoke Island is scheduled to begin on January 18.


Fairmont City Latin King Sentenced to Twelve Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking

News Release: Geovany Calderon-Osorio, 24, from Fairmont City, Illinois, was sentenced to 144months in prison on seven different counts of trafficking in methamphetamine and cocaine, Don Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Calderon-Osorio also was ordered to pay a ...


Sentencings for January 4 - January 10, 2018

News Release: Christopher Lee Martinez, 27, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 10, 2018, for attempting to entice a minor in illegal sexual activity. Martinez was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed...


FE Announces Funding for Two High Performance Computing for Materials Projects

News Release: Today, the Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $450,000 in funding for two projects that fall under the High Performance Computing for Materials Program.


News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement...


News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nicole Marie Harring, age 42, of Mead, Oklahoma; Ksenia Ura Gubareva, age 38, of McLoud, Oklahoma; Nathan Paul Parker, age 38, of Durant, Oklahoma; Alvin Arley Potts II, age 38, of Durant, Oklahoma;...


Dems Question BLM Withdrawal of Fracking Rule – Agency Admits It Won’t Generate New Energy on Public Lands

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, sent a letter this morning to Joseph Balash, assistant secretary of the Interior for land and minerals management, questioning the Bureau...


News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - In a case that is the product of the 10-month investigation into the Bakersfield criminal street gang known as the West Side Crips (WSC), a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today against alleged WSC member Jarvis Thomas, 32, charging him with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, as well as possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Paul Carter, 47, of Milwaukee was sentenced today to 21 years in prison, reduced by three years for time served, after pleading guilty on Oct. 6, 2017, to four counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor and sex trafficking, announced...


Vallejo Man Indicted for Possessing Cocaine for Distribution and Carrying a Firearm During a Drug-Trafficking Crime

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Andres Leonardo Melgarejo, 26, of Vallejo, charging him with possessing cocaine for distribution, possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


Reclamation Continues Water Exchange Negotiation with State of Utah for Lake Powell Pipeline

News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation and State of Utah are continuing negotiations for a water exchange contract, which proposes exchanging the state’s assigned Green River water right for use of Colorado River Storage Project water released from Flaming Gorge Dam. The next negotiation meeting...


News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today an indictment charging Scott Reaston, 40, a citizen of Australia living in Madison, Wis., with an insurance fraud scheme. The indictment was returned on January 3 by a federal grand jury sitting...