News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Erik Thompson Sentenced to 97 Months.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is nearing the end of the road- road construction in Rock Creek Park that is. Beginning at 6 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, Wise Road NW between Oregon Avenue NW and Beach Drive NW will close to drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists until fall. The closure is to allow construction on Beach Drive and to completely resurface Wise Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Twelve individuals were charged in federal court in Boston as a result of a federal sweep targeting offenders of document and benefit fraud. The defendants have allegedly used the identities of U.S. Citizens from Puerto Rico as their own. Ten of the 12 individuals charged today are unlawfully present in the United States, and six have criminal records in the names of the victims whose identities they have stolen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Carlos Peraza-Kissi, age 25, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced April 17, 2019, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Peraza-Kissi to a 188-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a five-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: (April 18, 2019) - On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the launch of a pilot program to test online transactions using benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The two-year pilot, authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill, will begin in New York, before...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: A man who distributed multiple pounds of methamphetamine was sentenced today to more than ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gregory J. Darr, 65, of Coshocton, formerly the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the Coshocton Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA), was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $431,000 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, and Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 26-year-old Beaumont, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Laurence Savedoff, Esq., 44, of New City, NY, who was convicted of misprision of a felony, was sentenced to serve four months in prison by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A Great Falls man who admitted possessing methamphetamine for redistribution in Butte was sentenced today to 68 months in prison and to four of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah- Every Easter weekend, the Bureau of Land Management welcomes over 20,000 visitors to the Little Sahara Recreation Area (LSRA) for off-highway vehicle recreation and camping fun. Due to a large influx of visitors, Juab County Sherriff’s Department, Millard County Sherriff’s Department...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: Contact: Press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., April 18, 2019 - U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel found that China has administered its tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for wheat...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for dealing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Daichi Horiace, 42, of St. Louis, and Marquise Cortez Brown, 26, of St. Louis, were sentenced to 120 months and 70 months in prison, respectively. Both were involved in a conspiracy to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl centered in the Clinton-Peabody housing complex on the near south side of the City of St. Louis. Fentanyl is a controlled substance that is deadly in doses of only a few milligrams. Both appeared before the Honorable Catherine D. Perry.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - On Saturday, April 20, community partners, Yellowstone National Park, and concessioners, will observe Earth Day in Gardiner, Montana. All events are free to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on April 16, 2019, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - A Hartford County, Connecticut, man was arrested this morning, April 18, after Transportation Security Administration officers at Bradley International Airport (BDL) stopped him from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane. It marked the second gun caught at the airport’s checkpoint so far this year.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, April 18, 2019-Cold temperatures inside honey bee colonies may cause colony losses during and after long-distance hauling, according to a preliminary study by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that nine previously deported aliens were indicted separately on April 17, 2019, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Dauphin, Franklin, Lackawanna, and York.
