News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DARRYL SANDERS, a/k/a Daryl Saunders (“SANDERS"), age 61, of Slidell, Louisiana, was indicted on March 28, 2019, by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 and for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Adrian Charleston, 24, of Jackson, entered a guilty plea on Friday, April 5, 2019 before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana K. Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Williamsport, PA - Today, U.S. Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Norman Dennis - a 41-year old Drexel Hill man - and Robert Vettese - 30-year old man formerly of Brookhaven, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Two Honolulu Police Department Officers Charged With Federal Civil Rights Offenses.
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 CRAIG CARTON was sentenced to 42 months in prison for securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those offenses. CARTON was convicted after a one-week trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Scott Brettschneider, an attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York since 1987, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of conspiring to make a false statement and making a false statement. Specifically, Brettschneider wrote a false letter to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Observes National Crime Victims' Rights Week with Events Throughout the Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 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 5, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has reopened the public comment period and changed the date for this summer’s proposed oil and gas lease sale due to the inclusion of additional parcels in the Ely District and the issuance of the new Greater Sage-Grouse Land Use Plan Amendment on March 15, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Pipestone National Monument announces the first of its 2019 Guest Speaker Series at the Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center in Pipestone, Minnesota, on Thursday, April 18th, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
Release: WORCESTER, Mass. - The Transportation Security Administration has been working closely with the Worcester Regional Transit Authority in Central Massachusetts during the course of the past 20 months to help ensure that the mass transit agency has appropriate security measures ready in the event of a security incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Line-of-Duty Death of Electronics Technician William “Homer" Lewis.
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 State Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) joined Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State James Baker, and Venezuelan Ambassador Carlos Vecchio to address the ongoing crisis in Venezuela and take part in a listening session with the victims of Nicolas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, AL-Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Johnnie Sharp, Jr. announced that One Place of the Shoals is the Birmingham Division recipient of the 2018 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). SAC Sharp presented a certificate to Executive Director Elizabeth Moore at a press conference today, April 5, 2019, at the One Place of the Shoals facility located in Florence, Alabama.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following joint statement on the Senate Commerce Committee vote to advance the nomination of Heidi King to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Hon. Ann Marie Buerkle to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following joint statement on the Senate Commerce Committee vote to advance the nomination of Heidi King to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Hon. Ann Marie Buerkle to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Three Texas men, including a former Weslaco City Commissioner and a former Hidalgo County Commissioner, were arrested today on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY ESTRIDGE, 38, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing amphetamines.
