News from October 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Peter DeFazio, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment today against Pedro Gavino, 23, and his father, Pedro Gavino-Robles, 58, both of Orosi, charging them with four felony counts of animal cruelty violations relating to cockfighting, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE -A Dominican national in the United States illegally, who admitted to using several alias and who was previously convicted and incarcerated in federal and state prisons on drug trafficking charges, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, and being an alien and a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, with violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for lease/conveyance of approximately 20 acres of public land to Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) for the Silver Spring Maintenance Station Project. The maintenance station would support constructing and maintaining highways in the Silver Springs area in Lyon County, Nevada. Public comments on the EA will be accepted through Oct. 30, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that on Oct. 17, 2018, Veronica Perdomo, age 43, of Greenville, South Carolina, entered a plea of guilty as charged before United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain. Perdomo pled guilty to two counts of Wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms and ammunition that had been stolen in a recent burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A personality on a Persian-language television network who formerly acted as an “immigration consultant" was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for paying cash bribes to corrupt U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers in exchange for the immigration officers approving applications for citizenship.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - An installation ceremony for Richard “Cade" Powell as field manager of the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 5, at the Park County Public Library Grizzly Room in Cody, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Pacheco, aka Michael Dominguez, 27, of Dunkirk, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 500 grams or more cocaine, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that a superseding indictment was unsealed today, charging nine members of a drug trafficking organization with multiple counts related to the distribution of large quantities of drugs in North Philadelphia, including cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Defendants Had Been Drinking With the Victim Prior to the Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Cody Clark, 27, of Bristol, Vermont, was sentenced on Oct. 18, 2018, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 120 months in prison after his guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Christina Reiss also ordered Clark to serve a thirty (30) year term of supervised release, and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: VIRGINA BEACH, VIRGINIA -Assistant United States Attorney Heather L. Carlton was honored Tuesday at the Virginia Gang Investigators Association’s 20th Annual Gang Conference in being named the Federal Prosecutor of the Year.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $1.2 million in virtual access to job training, educational and health care opportunities for more than 125,000 rural Alaskans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a seven-count indictment Thursday morning charging William Clyde Allen, III, age 39, of Logan, Utah, in connection with ricin-related threats. The indictment alleges he knowingly threatened to use a biological agent and toxin, specifically ricin, as a weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Leigh-Alistair Barzey, Special Agent in Charge of the DCIS Northeast Field Office, today announced that CHRISTOPHER TEIXEIRA, 34, of Darien, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud relating to his theft of more than $57,000 from a former U.S. Navy service member.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The Denali Park Road is closed at Igloo Campground (mile 34) due to a debris slide near mile 38. Travel beyond the campground is restricted for traffic, pedestrians and bicycles until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Traveled From Florida to Maryland to Break into Cars and Commit Bank Fraud and Identity Theft in Columbia, Millersville, and Edgewater.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Keasbey, New Jersey, tax preparer who was indicted May 3, 2018, for allegedly using false information to increase his clients’ tax refunds and secretly diverting a portion of those funds into accounts that he controlled was charged today with 11 new tax fraud counts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
