News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado today announces that Katherine O’Neal, a former member of the United States Army stationed at Fort Carson, was convicted in the United States District Court for smuggling goods from the United States, specifically exporting firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After a three-day jury trial and two hours of deliberation, Byron H. Montijo-Maysonet was found guilty of one count of coercion and enticement of a minor and four counts of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity with a minor, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for having more than a kilogram of methamphetamine, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Attorney Stole DOJ Documents Months Before Leaving Government Employment and Tried to Sell Them to Defendants In Federal Lawsuits.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Cody J. Cyson, of Minnetonka, Minnesota and Thomas L. Brown of East Hardwick, Vermont, were each charged with one count of entering a closed area and one count of interference with an agency function in Yellowstone National Park on March 7, 2018. Both individuals were contacted by park law enforcement...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Mississippi Juvenile Detention Officers Indicted for Multiple Assaults and Cover-Up.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kristi Michelle Juarez, age 32, of Sanger, Texas, was sentenced to 3 years of probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $30,000.00 for Theft By Officers Or Employees Of An Indian Gaming Establishment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1168(b). The charge arose from an investigation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: RUPERT, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today repairs to the Southside Canal headgates at Minidoka Dam will be postponed until October 2018. Public recreational access to areas around the headgates will be reinstated.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that William Joshua Stowe, age 27, of Madison, Georgia, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was imposed by Senior United States District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia on March 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: The former owner and chief executive officer of a Nashville, Tennessee-based telemarketing company pleaded guilty this morning to overseeing a fraudulent scheme in which limited-benefit health plans were sold to consumers as traditional health insurance, and to violating a federal court order that in...

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Shuster and Graves Opening Statements. Hearing on “Building a 21st Century Infrastructure for America: Long-Term Funding for Highways and Transit Programs". March 7, 2018. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. We’re here today for a...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces the arrests of three defendants and their transfers into federal custody pursuant to a 15-count federal indictment for drug related charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that SHANNON CHRISTOPHER CEASAR, M.D., age 45, a physician and former co-owner who operated Gulf South Physician’s Group in Metairie and resided in New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty for his role in illegally dispensing and distributing controlled substances, threatening to assault or murder federal law enforcement officers, and health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to prison for his admission of possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Adam Thomas Simington pleaded guilty Nov 9., 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A drug rehab counselor from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, has been charged by a federal grand jury in a superseding indictment with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin; distribution of heroin and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury; distribution of fentanyl; and possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl. Also charged in the conspiracy count are two residents of New York, NY.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), and 104 additional House Republicans today to reinforce the need to take action against China and other unfair trading partners while expressing concerns that broad tariffs could harm America’s jobs, manufacturers, and consumers.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: Published 1:05 p.m. CT March 6, 2018 | Updated 2:27 p.m. CT March 6, 2018.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Approximately 700 sheep will be arriving around mid-March at the Cronan Ranch Regional Trails Park along the South Fork of the American River near Pilot Hill. The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office utilize the sheep as an environmentally-friendly weed control measure.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Gardena man was sentenced to prison followed by supervised release after being charged with firearm- and drug-related charges, then later pleading guilty.