News published on Federal Newswire in March 2018

News from March 2018


News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEVIN SAM, age 43, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a Superseding Bill of Information charging him with conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, possession with the intent to distribute heroin, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.


News Release: Used Fraudulent Document One Week after Illegally Entering the United States.


News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jesus Humberto Bernal- Berreaza, 19, a Mexican National illegally residing in Lexington, was convicted on Friday, by a federal jury sitting in Lexington, of being an Illegal Alien in Possession of a Firearm.


Omaha Man Sentenced for Bank Robberies

News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Traynell Toney, age 24, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp having previously pled guilty to robbing two U.S. Bank branches in two Baker’s Supermarkets. Toney was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment, 3 years’ supervised release, and ordered to pay $5,597 in restitution.


U.S. Attorney’s Office to Conduct Election Day Monitoring

News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will monitor the federal, state and local primary elections in Chicago and surrounding suburbs on March 20, 2018, John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.


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.


California Man Pleads Guilty to Methamphetamine Conspiracy

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Steve Jones, 35, from Riverside, California, pled guilty today before United States District Court Judge Joseph R. Goodwin to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. At the hearing, Jones admitted to obtaining pound...


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: Defendant Ronald Giallanzo Agrees to Sell His Mansion in Howard Beach, Queens, Which Was Constructed Using the Illicit Proceeds of Loansharking Business.


News Release: On Friday, March 16, 2018, in Federal Court in East St. Louis, Illinois, Alfred L. Cross, 75, of Kinmundy, Illinois (originally from Mattoon, Illinois), pled guilty to five counts of bank fraud, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment charged Cross with defrauding seven southern Illinois banks out of more than $500,000.


Mexican Money Launderer Sentenced In International Cocaine Conspiracy

News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Eduardo Nunez Serna, 44, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for conspiring to launder the proceeds of a large cocaine trafficking organization.


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...


Full Committee to Hold Markup on Wednesday

News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a Full Committee markup this Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 10:00 am in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building to consider the following measures...


Seeking Information on Package Bomb Murders

News Release: Austin Police Department, ATF, and FBI Seek Information on Package Bomb Murders.


News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today appeared on CBS’ Face the Nation. The senator sat down with moderator Margaret Brennan earlier this week to discuss the nomination of Mike Pompeo to serve as secretary of state, President Donald J. Trump’s decision to accept an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the Iran nuclear deal, and other news of the day. Excerpts follow.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration released its plan to combat the opioid crisis.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration released its plan to combat the opioid crisis.


Walden, Burgess, and Harper on Trump Administration’s Plan to Combat the Opioid Crisis

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) issued the following statement after the Trump Administration released its plan to combat the opioid crisis.


Third gun detected at Norfolk International Airport checkpoint so far during March

Release: NORFOLK, Va.-Travelers are continuing to bring loaded guns to the Norfolk International Airport checkpoint, and early this morning, March 18, a third passenger in the last 12 days was cited by airport police after alert Transportation Security Administration officers caught the man with a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag.


News Release: Today, Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, a Syrian national who had been living in Iraq, was convicted by a jury, following a six-week trial, of conspiring and supporting the 1920s Revolutionary Brigades, an insurgent group that planted road-side bombs to attack and kill American soldiers in Iraq. A jury convicted ...