News from April 2019
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BLANDING, UT- Park officials plan to burn piles of dead vegetation in Natural Bridges National Monument beginning the week of April 10, 2019. Burns may occur through the end of the May 2019 as conditions allow.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Democrats rushed H.R. 9, Climate Action Now Act, through committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Kerry M. Kennedy, 30, of Florence, Kentucky, was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in federal prison, by United States District Judge David Bunning, for Transportation of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Defendant Earlier Sentenced to 37-Year Term for Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - VERNON WAYNE BROCK, 69, of Alva, has been charged by complaint with hiring someone to commit murder, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after 12 bills to lower health care and prescription drug costs for consumers were favorably reported to the full House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging ALEJANDRO AVILEZ-PEREZ, age 41, of Mexico, with Conspiracy to Distribute more than 50 grams of Methamphetamine, Possession with Intent to Distribute more than 50 grams of Methamphetamine, and Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: A 17-count indictment was unsealed today charging Zaldy N. Sabino, a contracting officer with the U.S. Department of State, with conspiracy, bribery, honest services wire fraud, and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael A. Terrell Jr., 33, Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on April 2 by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 6 ½ years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin. Terrell pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 15, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after Democrats rushed H.R. 9, Climate Action Now Act, through committee.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement commemorating the 70th anniversary of NATO...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Ely District, Bristlecone Field Office is asking the public to review and provide comments on a preliminary environmental assessment (EA) that analyzes the designation of a signed trail system in White Pine County, consisting of existing roads and trails open to all uses. The 60-day public comment period concludes Tuesday, June 4, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Cody Boley, of Wallace, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the April 2019 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On April 2, 2019, Valeria Ventura Ramirez, age 48, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced to 24 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to launder money, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Ventura Ramirez was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: A former pharmacist was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with fraudulently obtaining controlled substances, including opioids, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Demetrios Stavrakis, a/k/a Jimmy, age 53, of Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland, for an arson conspiracy to allegedly damage his business by setting it on fire in order to obtain insurance proceeds. The indictment was returned on March 28, 2019 and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Katie Jo Waters, 29, of Pembroke, was sentenced on Tuesday to 72 months in federal prison for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
