News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of MICHAEL HARRINGTON for misapplying police resources while serving in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") as, among other things, a Deputy Chief and former Executive Officer...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Carol J. Dotson, 70, St. Louis, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. She appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO - Ozark National Scenic Riverways is seeking initial public comments to aid with preparing a range of alternative actions to be considered for the maintenance, rehabilitation and management of the Waymeyer, Chilton Creek, and Pin Oak locations of the park. The National Park Service (NPS)...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: The Outer Banks of North Carolina are expected to receive impacts from a coastal storm starting this evening through Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury in Houston has returned a 13-count indictment against a Mexican National for allegedly running a fake kidnapping ransom extortion scheme that covered several states and nearly 40 victims, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan J. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Brian Scott Ellis (50, New Port Richey) has pleaded guilty to possessing and attempting to produce child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years’ imprisonment, up to 30 years, for the attempted production charge and up to 20 years in federal prison for the possession charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Leroy Milne, 56, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2018, in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 78 months of imprisonment for his conviction on marijuana trafficking charges. Milne will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Pennsylvania man pled guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Angel Diaz-Gibson, 26, of Reading, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin and to using a phone to facilitate a drug felony. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Greenbrier Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: A decision document has been signed by the Intermountain Regional Office, National Park Service that will enable Rocky Mountain National Park to permanently close the one-mile long Crater Trail to protect sensitive natural and cultural resources. For the past three years, the Crater Trail has been closed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 50-year old Jody Dowd Wooten of Yuba City, California, was sentenced to 174 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Bryant A. Holman, 25, of Paris, Ky., was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, for conspiring to distribute cocaine base (crack cocaine) and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Holman was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment for each offense, to run concurrently. Holman’s sentencing occurred on Feb. 28, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Troy Willoughby was sentenced to 44 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Columbia, Mo., nurse and business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally obtaining prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Spencer Wayne Allen, 26, pleaded guilty today in District Court to one count of arson and two counts of malicious damage and destruction to federal property, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher S. Earnest, of Parsons, West Virginia, was sentenced this week to 87 months incarceration for firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter asking Chairman Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the Department...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: Today, Aviation Week Network will recognize the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST)/Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing (ASIAS) initiatives as the 2018 Aviation Week Laureate Award winner in the “Commercial, Safety" category. It is recognizing the CAST/ASIAS initiatives for their “unparalleled collaboration between government and industry to improve aviation safety."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PABLO TEXIDOR, 40, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for importing a tableting machine and tableting dies to manufacture fake oxycodone pills that contained heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Carol J. Dotson, 70, St. Louis, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. She appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber.
