News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for drug-trafficking and firearms violations.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA MARCH 3 TO APRIL 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two men have been ordered to prison in separate, but similar schemes involving drugs given to them in Mexico and destined for the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Ernesto Siller-Valdez, a 40-year-old truck driver from Saltillo-Coahuila, Mexico, and Ricardo Isguerra Chavez, 43, of Michoacan, Mexico, both pleaded guilty Dec. 4, 2017, to conspiring to import methamphetamine in separate cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News woman was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for filing false tax returns and identity theft.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation officers arrested 232 individuals for violating federal immigration laws in the San Francisco area of responsibility (AOR), extending from the Bakersfield area north to the Oregon border, during a four-day targeted operation that ended Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A federal grand jury returned three indictments today charging four individuals with defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of his role in a meth-trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is seeking vendor(s) to provide visitor services to the Sanford-Yake RV campground. The vendor selected will operate ten RV camp sites currently being constructed and Sanford Yake campground. Each site will have a 50 amp power connection and water. Showers are available...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service has selected Patrick Gamman to serve as the next superintendent of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. Gamman replaces Shelley Hall who retired last August. He is expected to report for duty in late Spring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Today in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Ryan A. Thorpe, 44, the former Treasurer of the City of Zeigler, Illinois, pled guilty to five counts of wire fraud and embezzlement from a local government, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The charges against Thorpe relate to events which occurred while Thorpe worked as the Treasurer for the City of Zeigler.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to allow sportsmen to transport unarmed bows and crossbows through NPS-administered areas without a permit. Under current NPS regulations, individuals may only carry unarmed bows and crossbows without a permit within motor vehicles and other forms...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Northfield, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and New Jersey Attorney Gurbir S. Grewal announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Fishermen’s Bend Campground and Day Use Site will be closed from March 5th through April 15th. Work crews will be removing trees within the campground that have become a public safety concern. Trees within the campground are experiencing a mass die-off from...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, called for Scott Lloyd to resign as the Director of the Department of Health and Humans Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), following news...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division announced that Dr. Emmanuel Lambrakis, a state licensed doctor, pleaded guilty today to writing medically unnecessary...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AGUSTIN CIRINO, 30, of Hamden, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl disguised as oxycodone. Chief Judge Hall also ordered CIRINO to perform 200 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Bradley Flowers, 40, formerly of Palmyra, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for failing to register as a sex offender and was sentenced by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to time served (about 28 months) plus 30 days, and 5 years of supervised release, the first six months of which will be in community confinement.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) introduced H.R. 5132 to crack down on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps. Notably, the bipartisan bill authorizes the administration to sanction entities in which the IRGC has an ownership stake of less than 50 percent, significantly raising the stakes for anyone doing business with the IRGC.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: A convicted felon who illegally possessed a gun and ammunition was sentenced yesterday to more than nine years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: DEMARCO JONES, age 23 of Tickfaw, and WILLIE WALKER, age 22 of Hammond, pled guilty yesterday to violations of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
