News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally returned to the United States was sentenced today to more than three months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Michael Moore (37, Sarasota) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Three defendants were sentenced yesterday and today to a combined 36 years in prison for participating in a lengthy and extensive drug trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Accurately detecting, locating and quantifying leaks of methane, the main component of natural gas and a major fuel source worldwide, is critically important for both environmental and economic reasons. Unfortunately, traditional methods are slow, labor-intensive, limited to small coverage areas and expensive to operate over time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LEONID DJUGA, a/k/a “Leonid Dzhuga," age 40, a resident of Reseda, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk to 200 months in prison for charges stemming from a conspiracy to mail methamphetamine from California to south Louisiana for distribution.
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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A local man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of distribution and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Sher Khang, 33, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 27 months in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Khang pleaded guilty to this charge on January 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Patrick Begay, 35, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ramah, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assault charges.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Not all of nuts' calories are taken up by the human body; on some of them, the body gets a free pass, according to studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Jose Gregorio Luna, 33, of Nevada City, charging him with conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and manufacturing marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Three Nine Trey Gangsters Convicted of 2015 Violent Crime Spree in Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Patchogue, NY - The National Park Service (NPS) announced today that Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Karl “Chris" Soller will retire on March 31, 2018. In his 41 years of service, Mr. Soller worked to foster collaboration and nurture partnerships which can support the long-term stewardship of our national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mark G. Peters, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation (“DOI"), announced the arrest of ERIC LUNA, an employee of the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (“DYCD")...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Initiative is only the fourth program in the nation to implement innovative strategy, first to attempt it countywide.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a man from Minden was sentenced to 21 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a revolver.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: When the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII, the entire city rejoiced. After all, it was the franchise’s first Super Bowl title, signaling the end of years of frustration and disappointment fans have endured in pursuit of an elusive championship.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RODNEY LAVALAIS, age 32, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to an indictment charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced a South Carolina man late yesterday to 24 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, in connection with a “synthetic identity" bank fraud scheme, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement on the passage of Kosovo’s Border Demarcation Agreement with Montenegro...
