News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - The U.S. Marshals Service, Vermont Violent Offender Task Force (VVOTF) is offering a reward of up to $10,000.00 for information that leads to the arrest of Leroy Headley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Yesterday, Park managers at Fort Scott National Historic Site, in coordination with Fire Managers at the US Fish and Wildlife Service from Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge, successfully treated five acres with prescribed (Rx) fire in the park’s restored tallgrass prairie.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Gladstone, Mo., woman was charged in federal court today with attempting to hire an arsonist to destroy her commercial building in Kansas City, Mo., which contained several businesses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released two funding opportunities under the
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SETH WATSON, 34, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to distributing synthetic opioids and admitted that he violated the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Mark Edward Jeffery, a former Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) officer, who smuggled alcohol, drugs, and contraband cellphones into Hays State Prison, has been sentenced to federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Steven V. Stenger, of Clayton, was indicted last Thursday on three counts of honest services bribery/mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Boone County women were sentenced today for federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Megan Rose Mitchell, age 38, was sentenced to 34 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine. Mitchell’s sister-in-law, Marlena Sperry, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and aiding and abetting the distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James Hocker, age 49, was sentenced on April 26, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 204 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release for committing securities fraud. Judge Brann also ordered Hocker to pay restitution to the victims in the amount of $1,495,782.62.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Frederick, Md-Did you know that enslaved people in Maryland weren’t freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? Learn about the abolition of slavery with distinguished authors and historians Drs. Leslie Rowland and Joseph P. Reidy at the Best Farm in Monocacy National Battlefield on Saturday, May 4 from...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Sioux Falls, South Dakota, men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jalon Moore, 22, of Saint Louis, Larry Rhines, 22, of Collinsville, Illinois, and Garry Johnson, 21, of Saint Louis, were charged last Thursday for their respective roles in a string of armed robberies. The indictment was unsealed this morning. In it, the three men are charged with robbery and firearms conspiracies, as well as the robberies themselves and the use of firearms to commit each of those robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Muhammed Khalid Khan Is Charged with Attempting to Send Hundreds of Kilograms of Heroin for Distribution in New York City and Laundering Money into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute as much as 45 kilograms of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Gladstone, Mo., woman was charged in federal court today with attempting to hire an arsonist to destroy her commercial building in Kansas City, Mo., which contained several businesses.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Washington - USDA extended the deadline to May 17 from May 1 for agricultural producers to certify 2018 crop production for payments through the Market Facilitation Program (MFP), which helps producers who have been significantly affected by foreign tariffs, resulting in the loss of traditional exports.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management will close some recreation sites near Helena for two days in May while workers spray for noxious and invasive weeds in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: Over $1 Million Cash, Property, Jewelry Seized, Along with Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, and Guns.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced that it is seeking public nominations for positions on 31 Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) nationwide. These citizen-based committees assist in the development of recommendations that address public land management issues.
