News published on Federal Newswire in March 2018

News from March 2018


News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Timothy Coughlin (619) 546-6768 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry A. Casper (619) 546-6734.


News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The last guided snowshoe hike of the season will be at Angel Creek Campground, on Angel Lake Road, Wells, NV, 6:00p.m., Saturday, March 24.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In keeping with the administration’s priorities of being good neighbors and respecting the ties that native and traditional communities have to public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument will be closed 12 days throughout the year, to allow for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural observances and routine BLM maintenance.


News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Danzavious Dolphus, of Harper Woods, Michigan, has admitted to a drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.


News Release: In El Paso today, a federal jury convicted 36-year-old Norma Juarez Taha on federal charges in connection with the kidnapping of a 20-year-old female in El Paso in February 2017, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr.


Former Jersey City Police Officer Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Bribery Conspiracy Involving Off-Duty Work Assignments

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Jersey City, New Jersey, police officer was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for paying bribes in order to obtain compensation for off-duty work he did not perform, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.


Release: Other changes include: adding most of the currently prohibited plants to the Not Authorized Pending Pest Risk Analysis list; moving lists of approved growing media, packing materials, and ports of entry, and other approved items to the Plants for Planting Manual; adopting a notice-based process for making ...


News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State (“NYSP"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner...


MS-13 Gang Leader Pleads Guilty And Admits To Authorizing Murder

News Release: Defendant alleged to be nationwide leader of Molinos clique.


News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for illegally possessing firearms.


Former Head of Enfield Community Development Corp Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Steal Government Funds

News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRIN LAMORE, 47, of Enfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a conspiracy offense related to his theft of government funds.


Orlando Woman Sentenced To Nearly Twenty Years For Tax Refund Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft

News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron today sentenced Jeanine Jeanty (45, Orlando) to 19 years and 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to steal tax refunds, theft of tax refunds, and aggravated identity theft. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,774,376, representing the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.


News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter responding to a new claim from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney that he will not produce copies of downsizing plans that he and President Donald Trump required each federal agency to submit by last September because they are “deliberative."


News Release: Defendant also facing state charges of sexual assault on a child.


Southern Illinois Residents Sentenced for Methamphetamine Offense

News Release: On March 13, 2018, two southern Illinois residents were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.


Two Romanian Nationals Sentenced for Racketeering Conspiracy and ATM Skimming

News Release: BOSTON - Two Romanian nationals were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming scheme operating throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New York and South Carolina.


News Release: Florida Airplane Broker Sentenced to Over Seven Years for Tax and Wire Fraud.



BLM announces availability of draft supplemental environmental analysis for the West Mojave Route Network Project

News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has made available for public review a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and draft Land Use Plan Amendment that aim to manage dispersed recreation visitation over an extensive area in the Mojave Desert. The draft Supplemental Environmental...


News Release: SOSIMO GONZALES-DE LA CRUZ, 34, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 12, 2018 for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Gonzales De-La Cruz. was arrested in Shoshoni, Wyoming. He received time served...