News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: May - May 31, 2018. St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney’s Office will prosecute aggressively violent criminals and drug dealers. Federal prosecution is a powerful tool in the fight to reduce violent crime. At least 85% of federal sentences must be served; there is no parole in the federal system.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
Release: Feral swine can be difficult to eradicate in large numbers, so APHIS’ Wildlife Services (WS) program began testing the effectiveness of using sodium nitrite baits to selectively remove the animals. WS is conducting these trials under an U.S. Environmental Protection Agency authorized Experimental Use ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Damone Robertson-Burts, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine, and maintaining a drug-involved premiseswas sentenced to serve 48 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Lake Charles man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing a sawed-off shotgun in addition to other firearms and trafficking drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Dumfries man with distributing Fentanyl, a very potent pain killer used in the medical profession, that resulted in the non-fatal overdose of a Virginia woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that a Coshocton, Ohio man was sentenced yesterday in federal court on gun charges. Joshua Dale Edie, 34, was sentenced to 72 months - 6 years -- in federal prison for possessing firearms while being a user of methamphetamine, and after ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that a former assistant manager at Citizens Bank in South Philadelphia was charged, along with his wife, in connection with a bank fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested a previously deported Mexican national and convicted child sex offender Thursday in Greensboro, North Carolina. Alejandro Cortez-Lezo, an unlawfully present Mexican national, was arrested outside his Greensboro residence Thursday morning by a Greensboro-area ICE Fugitive Operations Team.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that on June 4, 2018, Chief United State District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp, sentenced Wayne Rolling, age 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, for his conviction for three bank robberies. Rolling was sentenced to a jail term of 64 months, placed on supervised release for three years and ordered to make restitution to the victim banks.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: In keeping with the administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in $7,728,317.00 in competitive bids for 4,152.10 acres. The combined revenues will be distributed between the federal government and the states of OK, Texas and KS.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 8, 2018) - Following the release of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Stop Youth Opioid Abuse public service announcement campaign, Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett issued the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing for Friday, June 15, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness: Responding to Biological Attacks, Pandemics, and Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: (BUFFALO, NY) - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) New York Division, announced that Larry Smith, Jr., 39, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to possession...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: (CLANCY, Mont.) - Crews from the Bureau of Land Management have repaired flood damage to Sheep Mountain Road near Clancy, and the road is once again open for public use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY VITO, 28, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to one count of aiding and abetting an armed bank robbery in Thomaston last year, and admitted that he aided and abetted two other commercial robberies on the same day.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 446,875 visits in May 2018. This is more than a 6 percent increase over last year (419,635 visits) and surpasses May 2016 (444,630 visits) as the busiest May ever in Yellowstone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - Two Essex County, New Jersey, men charged with multiple drug and weapons offenses were convicted today on all counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Tammy Martin and Co-defendant Clif Seaway Filmed the Abuse of Three Child Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) spoke out against the census citizenship question meant to suppress immigrant participation at a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice hearing on the Census. The witnesses include anti-immigrant extremists and the Director of Research at the Conservative Center for Immigration Studies, an organization classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2018
News Release: California man stole $4.7 million through elaborate eight-year fraud scheme.
