News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Morgantown, West Virginia man has admitted to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Shinnston, West Virginia man has admitted to unlawfully possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Dumfries man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison and ordered to pay $648,000 in restitution for sex trafficking two minor victims from July 2013 to July 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Valles Caldera National Preserve has opened the application period for its 2018 livestock grazing program. Livestock grazing on the preserve is authorized by Congress for the purposes of scientific research and/or interpretation of the ranching history of the preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A member of the Honduran National Congress faces U.S. charges for drug trafficking, weapons and conspiracy thanks to a DEA-led international drug investigation, federal law enforcement officials announced today. Honduran Congressman Fredy Renan Najera Montoya has been charged in Manhattan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office Hosts Roundtable on Sexual Harassment in Housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: BUTTE - Shannon Marie Leavitt, a 30-year-old resident of Belgrade, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison followed by four years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: District Court Awards $5 Million in Civil Penalties and Enters Permanent Injunction to Prevent Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc. from Distributing Prescription Drugs Not in Child-Resistant Packaging.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: A Seattle woman who defrauded programs aimed at assisting the neediest in our community was sentenced today in federal court to three years of probation, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. DEKA HIRSI, 39, lied to obtain subsidized housing from the Seattle Housing Authority, falsely claimed that...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Death Valley National Park is seeking public input into its design plans for exhibits at the Scotty’s Castle Visitor Center. The public is invited to provide comments on exhibit proposals at the Furnace Creek Visitor Center at 2:00pm on Wednesday January 31st. National Park Service personnel and contractors from The Design Minds will present several conceptual plans for the visitor center exhibits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 30 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today a guilty plea and two sentencings in connection with related Heath Care Fraud and prescription pill distribution cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was on Supervised Release for Firearms Offense When Arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Thursday upheld the convictions and sentences for three south Alabama family members who schemed to steal $2 million from the fund established by British Petroleum to compensate victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant Repeatedly Lied about Employment, Living Situation and Child Care.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Charles Smoot, 47, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to eight years in prison for a broad-daylight robbery of a bank in the Brentwood neighborhood of Northeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Paul G. Byron yesterday sentenced Andres Fernando Cabezas (34, Leesburg) to 12 years in federal prison and 20 years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a cell phone that had been used in connection with the offense.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore is taking part in a special collaboration inspired by Henry Beston’s seminal work The Outermost House. This series of events, called Outermost Inspirations, is a multi-media, multi-venue endeavor featuring contemporary artists celebrating the natural world that surrounds us. The following events are taking place at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested two local men on federal charges that allege a scheme to illegally obtain technology and integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to a Chinese company without the required export license.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury has charged JUSTIN LANE FOUST, 41, of Sulphur, Oklahoma, with defrauding Chesapeake Energy of more than $4 million through fraudulent invoices, announced Mark A. Yancey, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
