News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Yvonne Palmore was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay $366,269.50 in restitution for conspiring to file false federal tax returns, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Judge, following the entry of Palmore’s guilty plea to the charge.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Traficante, 23, of Long Island, NY, pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and distribution of a controlled substance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $3.7 million to Hawaii from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Three members of the Nine Trey Gangsters were convicted today by a federal jury for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy that included five murders, six attempted murders, and various drug trafficking, robbery, and firearms crimes that spanned all five cities in south Hampton Roads in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Mickey D. Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging TYMON PETERSON, 28, of Stratford, with conspiracy and making false statements in connection with the purchase of firearms, and narcotics trafficking offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: On March 17, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Texarkana worked jointly with the Sevier County Sheriff's Office, Arkansas State Police, Arkansas Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - Air and Marine Operations and other state and local partners to execute a state search warrant involving an illegal cockfighting organization.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $841,000 to Pennsylvania from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
Release: Funding Supports Local Projects to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases WASHINGTON, March 22, 2018 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $3.39 million to Washington State from Section 10007 of the 2014 Farm Bill as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Daryl Trent, age 43, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2018, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to possession with intent to distribute heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Sierra Front Field Office is requesting any data, other information or photographs pertaining to the vegetation condition, utilization levels, riparian condition and wild horse condition within the Flanigan Herd Management Area (HMA). The HMA is located west of Pyramid Lake. Data must be submitted by April 23, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Christopher Michael Partlow, 46, of Bessemer City, N.C. was sentenced to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the sentencing.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: NOAA has selected Kenneth Graham to serve as the next director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center in Miami, as preparations continue ahead of the 2018 hurricane season, which begins on June 1. He will assume this new role on April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Suheidy Soto-Concepcion, age 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on March 20, 2018, to 10 years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for conspiring to distribute heroin in Lebanon County.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Detroit Michigan residents have admitted to their roles in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) released the following statement after President Trump announced the Administration’s findings from the Section 301 Investigation on China’s policies and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that today in Federal court, WILLIAM SCOTT DAVIS, JR., a 57-year-old resident of Hampton, Virginia, was sentenced by Senior Judge W. Earl Britt to 144 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release after having been convicted of cyberstalking and communicating interstate threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Christopher Michael Partlow, 46, of Bessemer City, N.C. was sentenced to 120 months in prison and five years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. presided over the sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The leader of a drug trafficking ring and two of his associates were sentenced to prison today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sergio Olivas, 31, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.