News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Eric Jacob Riggs Threatened a Federal Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Observe winter birds and encounter Ancestral Pueblo sites during a hike along the Petroglyph Point Trail, Friday, March 9 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Learn about the birds that call Mesa Verde their winter home, while hiking through the pinon-juniper woodlands of Mesa Verde, past archeological sites built...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: CHELAN COUNTY, WA - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) released an Environmental Assessment (EA) on Dec. 21, 2017, in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, for the proposed replacement of the existing Upper Snow Lake tunnel water release control valve with a new valve. The water control structure is located on land owned by the Service surrounded by the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area in Chelan County, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Morris Smith, age 35, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on March 21, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules, sent a letter to White House Counsel Donald McGahn requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for robbing a branch of the RTN Federal Credit Union in Brookline and a branch of the Mansfield Bank in West Bridgewater in November 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Scheme Filed Over 12,000 Fraudulent Tax Returns and Claimed More Than $42 Million in Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Daniel Oliva, 30, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced before Hammond District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of distribution of cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 27, 2018, Rodney Shackleford, 26, of Cosby, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 79 months in federal prison for possessing stolen firearms. Shackleford pleaded guilty to a one-count information in October 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Daniel Silvestre-Ubri a/k/a Joel DeJesus-Marquez, a/k/a Mayor, age 38, and Willis De La Rosa, a/k/a Joey Reyes Arroyo, a/k/a Willie, age 32, both of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, were indicted by a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for robbing a branch of the RTN Federal Credit Union in Brookline and a branch of the Mansfield Bank in West Bridgewater in November 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that William F. Haynes, age 61, of Easley, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A. Senior United States District Judge Henry M. Herlong, Jr., of Greenville, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after he has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The vast majority of heroin consumed in the United States is produced by powerful Mexico-based transnational criminal (TCOs), such as the Sinaloa Cartel and New Generation Jalisco (CJNG), and transported to the United States across the Southwest Border. These TCOs are extremely dangerous, violent, and will continue to leverage established transportation and distribution networks within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Justin Gauthier, 39, formerly of Northfield, was sentenced to serve 106 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty today to committing a dozen bank robberies throughout Virginia and North Carolina in 2016 and 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that Sarah E. Batenhorst, 42, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 10 months in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for wire fraud. Batenhorst was also ordered to serve a period of 3 years on supervised release and pay restitution in the amount of $343,773.55.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Gettysburg, PA - History can do more than instruct; it can also inspire. In that spirit, Gettysburg National Military Park is offering “Great Task" Youth Programs in Community Service and Leadership for student or youth groups in grade levels 7 to 12, looking for intensive leadership and character-building...
