News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States has returned approximately $9.8 million to more than 1,000 victims who made investments or who had deposited money in e-Bullion.com, a website that operated for years as an illegal money transmitting business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced two Brazilian citizens residing in Florida to 40 months each in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on wire fraud charges in connection with a scheme to use counterfeit debit and credit cards to purchase...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and the City of Page are pleased to announce improvements at Horseshoe Bend are progressing. The portion of the new American Disability Act (ADA) trail closest to the rim was opened for public use on April 18, 2019. The eleven-foot wide, one-quarter mile long section connects to the viewing platform at the rim which was completed last September.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: A former Seattle employee of the online brokerage firm ShareBuilder, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to wire fraud in connection with a kick-back scheme involving one of ShareBuilder’s affiliates, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. AUGUSTINE OLOBIA, 49, now of Hurst, Texas...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
Release: NEWARK - It was a busy Thursday at Newark Liberty International Airport. How busy was it? Yesterday, April 18, was a record-setting day for the Transportation Security Administration.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area will be hosting the 19th annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 27, 2019. Traditional arts and crafts as well as music will be included as part of the festival throughout the day. This year’s festival will include demonstrations that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Gregory Pritchett, 47, of Covington, was sentenced today, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, to a total of 242 months in federal prison, for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Former Captain of Arkansas Juvenile Detention Center Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Assault Juvenile Detainees.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Jonathan Alan Ochoa, 31, of Talent, Oregon, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Flora Vista, New Mexico Man Charged with Being Felon in Possession of Firearms and Ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Victim Had Hands in Air When Shot.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA -Bryan McElroy and Angela McBride have been arraigned in separate federal cases on charges of attempting to file fraudulent, retaliatory liens against federal government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, Michael Brandon Smirnoff, 27, a former Tallassee Police investigator, pleaded guilty to assaulting a handcuffed, 24-year-old man, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Assistant Attorney General Eric Drieband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and FBI Special Agent in Charge James E. Jewell.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Scientists at NOAA’s National Hurricane Center conducted a detailed post-storm analysis on all the data available for Hurricane Michael and have determined that the storm’s estimated intensity at landfall was 140 knots (160 mph). This final wind intensity is a 5 knot (5 mph) increase over the operational...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - An inter-agency group of federal researchers has published a guide designed to help resource managers and practitioners prioritize, locate and apply management actions to conserve and restore sagebrush habitat across the West. The guide focuses on sagebrush ecosystems and sagebrush-dependent...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
Release: BOSTON - The Transportation Security Administration at Boston Logan International Airport set a record for the most passengers who went through the security screening process in a single day when 77,451 passengers passed through the checkpoints and onto their departing gates on Friday, April 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on April 15, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Brian A. Oliver, a former owner and executive vice president of Aequitas Management, LLC and several other Aequitas-related companies has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: An FBI Special Agent from the Oxford Resident Agency Office has been recognized in two separate award ceremonies this week for his investigation of civil rights and human trafficking cases and his work with victims of those offenses. FBI Special Agent Walter Henry, of the FBI Oxford Resident Agency...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - More than 200 law enforcement personnel from local, state and federal partners attended ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s first Cyber Crime Symposium Thursday, highlighting HSI capabilities in the cyber world, emphasizing the need for partnerships with prosecutor’s offices and law enforcement in combating cybercrimes.
