News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Angelo Efthimiatos, 49, of Sudbury, Vermont, was sentenced yesterday to serve 15 months in prison followed by a year of supervised release following his conviction at trial in December 2018 of flying without a valid pilot’s...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, April 12, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a final rule today designed to ensure that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) standards on eligibility for students and restrictions for lottery winners and convicted felons are consistently applied, and that program integrity is secure.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Indictment Alleges that the Organization Distributed Heroin, Fentanyl, Cocaine, and Crack Cocaine in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia, Resulting in at Least 14 Overdoses, Including Five Overdose Deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was sentenced to prison in connection with a $1.4 million dollar insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An El Salvadoran man who is in the United States illegally was sentenced today to over two years in prison for running an illegal commercial sex business that catered to the Hispanic community in Northern Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on April 1, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Fire managers from the Bureau of Land Management Southwest Colorado Fire and Aviation Management Unit are plannning to conduct prescribed fires on public lands approximately five miles northwest of Bayfield next week or when conditions warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DESMOND GEORGE DANIAL, 51, to 30 months in prison for interstate stalking. DANIAL, who pleaded guilty on November 8, 2018, was sentenced today before Senior Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Minnesota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm by a Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant apprehended as part of a nationwide crackdown on Darknet illicit market sites.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - A new exhibit is open at Tamarack in Beckley, West Virginia featuring the art of local students, participants of the Youth Arts in the Parks 2019 Appalachian Spring Wildflower Art contest. These youth are using art to help others learn about regional ecology and celebrate the arrival of spring in this annual contest open to all students in grades K - 12 from Fayette, Nicholas, Raleigh, and Summers Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Alexis Laguerra and Raymond Soto, Sr. pleaded guilty to bank larceny involving the theft of an armored car and over $500,000 from the car on Nov. 2, 2018 in Valley Stream. Laguerra was an employee of GardaWorld, the owner of the armored car. Today’s pleas took place before United States Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields. An additional defendant, Raymond Soto, Jr., pleaded guilty on March 18, 2019 to bank larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Devin Dewayne Williams, 27, of West Monroe, Louisiana, pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-Flathead County resident Bruce Boone Wann was sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release today after he admitted to illegally possessing a machine gun and other weapons crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kevin Scott Abney, 40, of Irvine, Kentucky, was sentenced Friday, to 240 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Washington - Higher limits are now available for borrowers interested in USDA’s farm loans, which help agricultural producers purchase farms or cover operating expenses. The 2018 Farm Bill increased the amount that producers can borrow through direct and guaranteed loans available through USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and made changes to other loans, such as microloans and emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that the federal Bureau of Prisons conducted a pilot test of micro-jamming technology this week at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. The test was the first collaboration of its kind...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: The owner of Woodbridge Group of Companies LLC and two former directors of investments have been charged criminally, in the Southern District of Florida, with orchestrating a massive investment fraud (Ponzi) scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Martinsburg, WV - The U.S. Marshals Service Mountain State Fugitive Task Force is requesting the
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Alexis Laguerra and Raymond Soto, Sr. pleaded guilty to bank larceny involving the theft of an armored car and over $500,000 from the car on Nov. 2, 2018 in Valley Stream. Laguerra was an employee of GardaWorld, the owner of the armored car. Today’s pleas took place before United States Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields. An additional defendant, Raymond Soto, Jr., pleaded guilty on March 18, 2019 to bank larceny.
