News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Raises Reward to $10,000 in Counselor, New Mexico, Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: A Seventh Defendant Allegedly Sold an AK-47 Rifle to a “Crips" Gang Member.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today welcomed His Excellency Ivan Duque, president of Colombia to the Capitol for a working coffee meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mexican man today admitted his role in conspiring to traffic approximately 300 grams of fentanyl into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been found guilty of illegally possessing an assault rifle and a loaded handgun in DuPage County.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- Earlier today, following a two-week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict against Humberto Baez for conspiring to import and distribute cocaine, and for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine, in connection with his participation in a scheme responsible for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - A former bank officer has been sentenced to two years in prison for embezzling funds from Southern Bancorp Bank. Michael J. Erickson, age 42, of Ridgeland, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson on Thursday to serve 24 months imprisonment followed by 3 years...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is recruiting six Acadia Teacher Fellows to spend the summer learning about Acadia National Park’s diverse natural and cultural resources, and ways to protect them. Teachers will be selected to work on Mount Desert Island and at Schoodic Point. Acadia National Park invites full-time, K-12 public classroom school teachers to apply online by March 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester on federal methamphetamine charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), have developed a novel, nondestructive method to rapidly measure the wood and non-wood fiber components in paper.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Darren Bell, 19 and Altonio Benson, 27, both of Detroit, Michigan, were charged in a criminal complaint with robbery affecting interstate commerce for the robbery of a jewelry store in Hobart, Indiana, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: SAFFORD, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Safford Field Office and Gila District Fire Management Office will conduct a multiple day prescribed burn in the Aravaipa Canyon area between March and June, pending appropriate weather and seasonal conditions. The South Rim Burn will cover approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Misappropriated Approximately $1.48 Million from NFL Players and Others.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man and a woman from Kansas were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of crashing a car into a Cabela’s store and stealing guns, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Previously Convicted of Committing Two Burglaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 55, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release on charges that, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he shot at three young African-American men because of their race as the men attempted to evacuate...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - Each spring raptors return to the Indian Creek area for nesting. Eagles, falcons, and other migratory birds use shallow depressions on ledges, cliffs and rock walls, and often return to the same site year after year to raise their young. The BLM requests that hikers and climbers voluntarily...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Bryan Campbell, 27, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release on his convictions for conspiring to rob three area banks, armed bank robbery, attempted armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler today announced federal criminal charges against 24 individuals for a methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine distribution conspiracy and a federal firearms related charge.
