News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown announced today that six Jacksonville, Texas men have pleaded guilty following a drug trafficking investigation in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Andre Terrell, aka "Buzzo," of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today for conspiracy to distribute over 100 grams of heroin, over 28 grams of cocaine base, and fentanyl. United States District Judge Christina Reiss ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shane Aurand, 21, of Gowanda, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum sentence of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been charged in federal court with using a GPS tracking device to assist in the murder of a rival drug trafficker who was fatally shot in front of his 8-year-old daughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Bud O’Neil Burkleo, 35, of Warrenton, Oregon made an initial appearance today in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: An Indictment charging Gholamreza Rafatnejad, 38; Ehsan Mohammadi, 37; Abdollah Karima, aka Vahid Karima, 39; Mostafa Sadeghi, 28; Seyed Ali Mirkarimi, 34; Mohammed Reza Sabahi, 26; Roozbeh Sabahi, 24; Abuzar Gohari Moqadam, 37; and Sajjad Tahmasebi, 30, all citizens and residents of Iran, was unsealed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Alere to Pay U.S. $33.2 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Unreliable Diagnostic Testing Devices.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement upon the swearing in of Martin Vizcarra as President of Peru...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park and the National Park Service are proud to join the city of Tucson and Pima County in honoring the life of labor and civil rights leader César E. Chávez with a fee free day. The public is invited to come out to Saguaro National Park on Friday, March 31st to learn more...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., March 23, 2018) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the robust investment of $600 million in rural broadband for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which was included in the FY 2018 Omnibus Spending Package. The funding comes at a time when President Donald J. Trump is pursuing an ambitious agenda to rebuild America’s infrastructure, including a special emphasis on rural communities.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, April 7, 2018, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DENVER -Daryl F. Yurek, age 62, and Wendy M. Yurek, age 62, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez on March 22 and 23, 2018. Mr. Yurek was sentenced to 50 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release and an asset forfeiture money judgment was entered against...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: An Akron man will likely be sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to using a firearm while having nearly a half-pound of carfentanil, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdmanand Akron Police Chief Kenneth Ball.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will continue to increase flows through town. Currently, flows through town are 1,760 cubic-feet-per-second (cfs) and will stay at this rate through the weekend. Flows through town will increase by 500 cfs on Monday and on Tuesday, March 26-27, 2018. On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, flows through town will increase by an additional 200 cfs to approximately 3,000 cfs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, NJ-Acting Special Agent in Charge Bradley W. Cohen of the Newark Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that Steven Nacim, 50, was arrested in Newark, New Jersey on Friday, March 23, 2018. A federal arrest warrant was issued on July 31, 2002 by the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a three-count indictment this week charging Donnie Arlondo Ferrell, 25, and Bei-jing Tashawna Walker, aka “Channelle Walker," 24, both of Hutchins, Texas, with felony offenses related to the Feb. 19, 2018 murder of a United States Postal Service employee. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Nicholas G. Peacock, 34, of Salisbury, North Carolina, was sentenced to 27.5 years in prison today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola for enticement of a minor and interstate travel for illicit sexual activity. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Raytown, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in order to prevent dozens of rental properties from being sold by the county for failure to pay property taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Brandon Jerome Randolph (29, Bradenton) to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, cocaine base, heroin, methamphetamine, carfentanil, and fentanyl. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Omar Bell, age 34, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced on March 22, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 52 months in prison for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Luzerne County during 2014.
