News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Tuzigoot National Monument will be holding a free night sky photography class for a total of 15 registered students. The class will take place Saturday, May 4th from 7:00pm-10:00pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RODOLFO SABLON, a/k/a “Rudy," was sentenced to six months in prison for his role in an insider trading scheme based on material nonpublic information misappropriated from an investment bank by Daniel...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwestern Missouri man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for receiving and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that LUIS OMAR VARGAS, an unlicensed dentist, was sentenced to two years in prison for defrauding health insurance companies by billing for false claims, billing for claims performed by him as an unlicensed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on April 3, 2019, Alexander Marcus Provencher, age 23, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. Provencher was sentenced to 60 months in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Ashanti Roundtree (44, North Port) guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin, possessing a firearm in the furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Roundtree faces a maximum penalty of life and a mandatory minimum of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Every Life Counts: Improving the Safety of our Nation’s Roadways." The hearing will explore the safety of our Nation’s roads and what can be done to lower the number of traffic-related fatalities and injuries.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Water, Oceans, & Wildlife Subcommittee Chair Rep. Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) launched a new inquiry today seeking documents associated with David Bernhardt, the current Deputy Secretary and Acting Secretary of the Interior...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on April 2, 2019, David Dylan Wuerfele, II, age 43, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. Wuerfele was sentenced to 27 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release for three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a Bolingbrook man to 19 years in prison for engaging in sex acts with an underage boy and enticing him to produce sexually explicit images of himself.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Bellmawr, N.J., man was charged yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with attempting to sexually exploit an 11-year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - An Ohio man who pretended to be a missing Illinois boy has been charged federally with making false statements to federal agents.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Arizona Strip Field Office will close the Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area Campground beginning Monday, April 8, 2019, in order to complete needed renovations of the restrooms and other infrastructure to ensure the health and safety of visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man was sentenced today to more than five years in prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of firearms by an unlawful user of a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that Daniel Roy Mace, of Parkersburg, was convicted by a federal jury on 15 felony charges: 12 counts of receipt of child pornography on dates between June 24 and Aug. 3, 2016; one count of distribution of child pornography; one...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - Wrangell-St Elias National Park and Preserve has announced the visitor center hours for the 2019 season. The opening dates and hours are as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, California (April 5, 2019) - Visitors and staff at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park have become accustomed to the light winters that the drought has produced. Recent snow surveys show that Sequoia and Kings Canyon is 153% of normal. There are areas that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 33-year old Guatemalan citizen has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for illegally re-entering the United States after deportation, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Edward Estuardo Jacinto-Garcia pleaded guilty Nov. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister will take part in events this month to recognize the rights of crime victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Three Texas Men Arrested and Charged with Bribery Conspiracy.
