News published on Federal Newswire in March 2018

News from March 2018


Grand Rapids Man Sentenced to 188 Months in Federal Prison for Firearm Offense

News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Ralph Lamont Blevins, 39, of Grand Rapids, Michigan was sentenced to 188 months (15 years, 8 months) in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a 4-year term of supervised release that will commence once Blevins is released from imprisonment.


Greene County Felon Illegally Possessed and Transported a Firearm Across State Lines

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Greene County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: On Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 a.m., the subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions will hold a hearing on "Expanding Affordable Health Care Options: Examining the Department of Labor’s Proposed Rule on Association Health Plans." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.


News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March 15, 2018, Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Michael Trevor Haynes, age 37, of Moultrie, GA, to 98 months imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of domestic violence and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.


Four from the Mahoning Valley Indicted for Firearms Crimes

News Release: Four people from the Mahoning Valley were indicted in federal court on firearms charges, and, in some cases, drug trafficking charges.


News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Lourdes Rivera, 40, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today to time (44 days in jail) for distributing heroin.


News Release: DENVER - Susan “Sue" Fritzke, deputy superintendent of four National Park Service (NPS) sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been named superintendent of Capitol Reef NP in Utah by NPS Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica.


News Release: Khari Milak Whitehead, 26, of Antioch, Tennessee, was charged on Friday in a criminal complaint with making a false statement in connection with the attempted purchase of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.


News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Lenn W. Zuhlke, age 56, of Bancroft, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp having previously pled guilty to aiding and abetting a bank robbery at the First Bank of Bancroft. Zuhlke was sentenced to 17 months’ imprisonment and 2 years’ supervised release.


Four from the Mahoning Valley indicted for firearms crimes

News Release: Four people from the Mahoning Valley were indicted in federal court on firearms charges, and, in some cases, drug trafficking charges.


FBI Statement on Elk County Pennsylvania Excavation

News Release: FBI Statement on Elk County Pennsylvania Excavation.


Vancleave Woman Sentenced to Over 23 Years in Federal Prison for Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Sharon Marie Stallone, aka "Boss," aka "Sharbear Boss," age 36, of Vancleave, was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 278 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Roger Shane John, 32, of Turlock, pleaded guilty today to aiming the beam of a laser pointer at a Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department helicopter, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


Boise River flows set to increase

News Release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation are increasing flows through town from approximately 240 to 1,750 cubic-feet-per-second, beginning March 21, 2018. The flow through town will be increased 500 cubic-feet-per-second each day over three days starting on March 21, 2018, and...


BLM to conduct spring prescribed fire projects

News Release: WORLAND, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wind River/Bighorn Basin District tentatively plans to conduct four prescribed fire projects within the Cody and Worland field office areas this spring as part of the BLM’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive. These projects are contingent upon fuel moisture and weather meeting optimal treatment conditions.


Birders Needed at Lake Berryessa!

News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking volunteers to help conduct bird monitoring surveys at Lake Berryessa.


Founder and CEO of Defunct Tampa Technology Company Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison for Investment Fraud

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Timothy Munro Roberts (57, Missouri) to six years and eight months in federal prison for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $5,874,912.52 in restitution to the victims of the fraud. Roberts pleaded guilty on January 9, 2017.


New superintendent of Capitol Reef is deputy manager for four national parks in SF Bay Area (Martinez)

News Release: DENVER - Susan “Sue" Fritzke, deputy superintendent of four National Park Service (NPS) sites in the San Francisco Bay Area, has been named superintendent of Capitol Reef NP in Utah by NPS Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica.


News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Center for Explosives Training and Research (NCETR), in partnership with the U.S. Army Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA) G-38 - Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), announce the 2018 Raven's Challenge Interoperability Exercise, a national training event to prepare and counter the threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Jena man was sentenced last week to more than eight years in prison for downloading hundreds of images and videos of child pornography.