News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that John Mullens, age 38, of Springdale, was sentenced today to 67 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $2,500.00 fine on one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two people have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions related to a conspiracy to purchase and smuggle an M203 Grenade Launcher as well as three semi-automatic rifles, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 33 months' imprisonment, a $100,000.00 fine, and restitution in the amount of $505,131.95, as well as forfeiture in the amount of $235,515.93, on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Nevada quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 19,432.94 acres of the 67,797.94 acres offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Matthew Linderman, 50, of Corvallis, Oregon, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised released for wire fraud and filing a false tax return. Linderman was also ordered to pay over $1.7 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Thomas Lawton Evans Jr., 37, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, was charged in a three count federal indictment. Count One charges Kidnapping Involving a Person Under the Age of 18, a violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1201(a)(1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: 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 Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), and George P. Beach II, the...
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “Modernizing Export Controls: Protecting Cutting-Edge Technology and U.S. National Security." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon Fremin for the Middle District of Louisiana and Acting Assistant Attorney General John M. Gore of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice announced today the successful resolution of the oldest current school desegregation case in the State of Louisiana, involving the St. Helena Parish Public School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Wheelwright, Ky. man, David Glenn Boyd, 53, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison, to be followed by a Life term of supervised release, for knowingly distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Ohio resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing on modernizing export controls...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Defendants are latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ITHACA, NEW YORK, March 14-Limits on improving yield and other critical traits in maize likely are due to rare harmful mutations genetically linked to a beneficial gene combination that were selected for during domestication and breeding, according to a study published today in the journal Nature.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two additional people were each sentenced March 14 to more than three years in federal prison following their conviction of conspiracy to purchase and smuggle to Mexico an M203 grenade launcher and three semi-automatic rifles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: The former Director of Parks and Grants for Plymouth Township, Michael Mitchell, 49, of Rockford, IL, was charged today by Information with one count of theft from a local government receiving federal assistance, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Court Imposes Maximum Allowable Sentence. A Waterloo man who illegally possessed a gun he used to shoot a minor was sentenced today to the maximum allowed under the law, ten years in prison. Eric Cortez Sallis, age 27, from Waterloo, Iowa received the prison term after a July 14, 2017, guilty plea to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Princeton man pleaded guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jerome Jones, 53, of Princeton, West Virginia, entered his guilty plea to 7 counts distribution of a quantity of cocaine base, 2 counts possession with intent to distribute a quantity of cocaine base, and 1 count distribution of a quantity of cocaine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “Review of Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Request for the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Programs". March 14, 2018. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Today we convene to review fiscal year 2019 budget...
