News from May 2018
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Farmington, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Farmington Field Office is initiating emergency fire prevention restrictions on public lands managed by the Farmington Field Office in San Juan County, beginning May 26, 2018, due to high fire potential. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kai Brockington pleaded guilty in federal court to mail fraud and tax fraud for running a bogus charity that duped multiple large corporations into sending him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By State Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant possessed unregistered firearm. DENVER - Adam Nauveed Hayat, age 36, of Denver, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to three counts of possessing unregistered firearms, after being caught possessing pipe bombs in Downtown Denver hotel, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Charles H. Bitner, Jr., age 45, of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the President and Owner of Bitner Brothers Construction Company, Inc. (Bitner Brothers), located in Carlisle, entered a plea of guilty on May 22, 2018, on behalf of Bitner Brothers before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jose Ojeda Vera (28, formerly of Tampa) has pleaded guilty to committing aggravated identity theft and conspiring to commit credit card fraud and identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on the conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Forecasters predict a 35 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, and a 25 percent chance of a below-normal season for the upcoming hurricane season, which extends from June 1 to November 30.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - William James Dunn, Jr., 35, previously of Burlington, Vermont, pleaded guilty in federal court to escape from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel A. Mendoza, 21, a non-Indian man from Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 33 months in prison for assaulting a federally commissioned tribal police officer. Mendoza will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Daphna J. Goren of Beachwood was charged in federal court for theft of public money and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Taj Armon Reid was convicted of conspiracy and receiving bribes by a federal jury today, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jack Bennett. The guilty verdicts followed a four-day jury trial before the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Court Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: A St. Louis resident was sentenced to federal prison on Thursday, May 24, 2018, for his role in the conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine in Southern Illinois and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - DANIEL JUSTIN MAHAN, age 42, a resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was indicted today for receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brian Lee, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Breadsprings, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 15 years in prison for his conviction on child sexual abuse charges. Lee will be on supervised release for ten years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - An Atlanta man has been charged with posting threatening messages against Charlottesville schools that caused all schools within the City of Charlottesville to go into a modified lockdown for two days in October 2017, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen and Adam S. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today unanimously advanced the nomination of John Bartrum to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources.
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: DAYTONA BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited P&S Paving Inc., a Daytona Beach underground utility construction company, for exposing employees to cave-in hazards. The company faces $138,927 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that today, DEVON WATERS, 38, of Goldsboro, was sentenced by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan to 261 months’ imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee to President Donald Trump, urging him to comply with Robert Mueller’s request to sit for an interview as part of the Special Counsel investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Wendell Lamar Senior, a/k/a “Dareal Chico," has been indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a federal officer, possessing marijuana with intent to distribute, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possessing firearms while under indictment.
