News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - Shawn Atkins was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for heroin and para-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl trafficking while on federal supervised release for a prior heroin trafficking conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Mark Charles Barnett (50, Ocala) guilty of attempted arson, possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act (NFA) destructive device, and making an unregistered NFA destructive device. Barnett faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for the attempted arson count and up to 10 years in federal prison on each of the destructive device convictions. His sentencing hearing has been set for Oct. 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: For Possession and Receipt of Material Depicting Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Raul Cardenas-Solis (Cardenas), 22, a citizen of Michoacán, Mexico, today to three years and 10 months in prison for conspiring to cultivate marijuana on public land, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: Two people pleaded guilty to distributing Tramadol pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Neal Krieger, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 50 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million in funding for 13 projects aimed at further enhancing one of the world’s most sophisticated computer models for understanding weather and climate patterns.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the nominations of Dan Michael Berkovitz to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and James E. Hubbard to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - Shawn Atkins was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for heroin and para-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl trafficking while on federal supervised release for a prior heroin trafficking conviction, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STIVEN SIRI-REYNOSO was found guilty of the June 11, 2016, murder of Jessica White, who was killed by a stray bullet while watching her children play in the playground of the John Adams Houses in the Bronx, New York. SIRI-REYNOSO was convicted after an eight-day trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NEHAMIAH CARROLL, 27, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 28 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: The former Chief Operating Officer of MetroHealth Hospital System and three other men were convicted by a jury for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the hospital and others through a series of bribes and kickbacks totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars related to the hospital’s dental program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Alfredo Pavon-Carranza, 28, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to unlawfully re-entering the United States after having been removed previously as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Gregory A. Bovino, Chief Patrol...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Benito Flores, age 38, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Allenwood (USP Allenwood), Allenwood, Pennsylvania, was indicted on July 26, 2018, by a federal grand jury for assaulting two correctional officers.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, July 30, 2018- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Wildlife Services (WS) program will begin its annual distribution of the oral rabies vaccine RABORAL-VRG® baits in select areas in the eastern United States to prevent the spread of raccoon ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Keith Parr, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to nine months incarceration for a sex offender registration violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - James R. Stewart, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Deion J. Jones, of Wheeling, West Virginia, have admitted to a drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to amend its Resource Management Plan (RMP) to expand the disposal boundary in Pahrump, Nevada, by approximately 621 acres adjacent to the Spring Mountain Raceway, LLC. The BLM invites the public to comment on issues to be evaluated in its Environmental Assessment. Should the RMP be amended, the BLM proposes to dispose of the 621 acres through two modified competitive sale events.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hosting two free tours on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, at a wild horse off-range pasture in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Attendees will have the opportunity to view approximately 200 mares roaming on approximately 3,875 acres called the Chickasaw Ranch. In addition, attendees...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Virginia business owner was sentenced today for unlawful cigarette smuggling, First Assistant United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced today.
