News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park has been awarded funding to rehabilitate the historic Kozlowski's Trading Post along Highway 63 in Pecos, NM. The project, which begins in late February 2019, will transform the building into a visitor contact station, museum, and employee office space. Weil...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 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 and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform; Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) requesting him to immediately call Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Andrew McCabe to publicly testify before the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Manuel D. Reynoso, 36, of Glen Burnie, Md., was found guilty today following a jury trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia of possessing a firearm with an extended magazine loaded with ammunition; possession of marijuana; and possession of N-Ethypentylone, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Kan., men have been convicted at trial by a federal jury of 17 counts contained in a Dec. 13, 2016, federal indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- Grand Canyon National Park and Grand Canyon Conservancy invite the public and park partners to join National Park Service staff in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Grand Canyon’s designation as a national park. To celebrate this significant milestone, Grand Canyon National Park will waive entrance fees for visitors coming to the park on February 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: The office participated in collecting more than $2.1 billion in cases pursued jointly with other DOJ components.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - The Honorable Judge Elizabeth Foote, of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, sentenced defendant Codi Dodge, 35, the former Deputy Chief of Investigations for the St. Martinville Police Department (SMPD), Thursday to serve nine years in prison on four...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that WAYNE TRICHE, age 75, of Baton Rouge, was charged in a 38-count Indictment with wire fraud and tax fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 and Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1), respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: William D. Wood, Jr. Charged With Killing Two During a Robbery at Chili’s Bar & Grill in Dewitt, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Christopher Lee Serrano, 45, of Austin, Texas and Pedro Vasquez Cavazos, 63, of Mercedes, Texas, were sentenced to federal prison Thursday, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiracy to distribute nearly five kilograms of cocaine. Serrano was sentenced to 262 months and Cavazos was sentenced to 120 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Michigan woman pleaded guilty today for her role as a patient recruiter in a scheme involving approximately $1.2 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health care procured through the payment of kickbacks.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that its continued partnership with Friends of a Legacy (FOAL) provided for healthy wild horses and healthy rangeland in 2018. The BLM administered a field darting program of 62 mares within the McCullough Peaks Herd Management Area (HMA). FOAL...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Washington - On Jan. 31, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued an administrative complaint against R & W Farms LLC, Wanda Thompson and Rickey G. Thompson (R & W Farms), Pitkin, LA., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: A Baltimore, Maryland man was sentenced today to life in prison for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go (TTG). The racketeering conspiracy included eight murders, drug trafficking, and witness intimidation.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 205,744 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Montana Barronette, a/k/a Tana, and Tanner, age 23, of Baltimore, to life in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as Trained To Go (TTG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that the District of Nebraska collected $3,978,627.98 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $1,836,812.43 was collected in criminal actions and $2,141,815.55 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-The FBI Washington Field Office seeks assistance from the public to identify a serial bank robber dubbed the “Beltway Bank Bandit." He is suspected of committing 20 bank robberies in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
