News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: ST GEORGE, UT: Officials with the Bureau of Land Management’s Arizona Strip District, the National Park Service at Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, and Mohave County, Arizona are strongly recommending that motorists not attempt to travel on any unpaved roads on the Arizona Strip above 4,000 feet elevation until weather conditions change. The Arizona Strip and Parashant National Monument are located between St. George, UT and the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - U.S. Attorney Robert M. Duncan, Jr. announced today that the Eastern District of Kentucky collected $29,313,458.05 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $23,868,990.17 was collected in criminal actions and $5,444,467.88 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Christopher A. Hutchinson, 30, of Cushing, Maine was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for Seaman’s Manslaughter for causing the death of two crewmen who were then 26 and 15 years old. Hutchinson pleaded guilty on Sept. 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Fires Set on Four Seperate Occasions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management invites the public to comment on its California State Parks, Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division, off-highway vehicle recreation proposals for 2019, which are available on the Internet for review and comment from March 5 to May 6 at www.ohv.parks.ca.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 53-year-old Reynaldo “Sonny" Jesus Peralez, owner and operator of Bohannon Oil Services, L.L.C., was sentenced for scheming to defraud investors of over $3.5 million dollars by routing false and fraudulent investment into trucks and transportation involved in the transport...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that Manhattan art gallery owner MARY BOONE was sentenced to 30 months in prison for filing false tax returns as part of a multi-year tax fraud scheme that cost the U.S. Treasury over $3 million. BOONE previously pled guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns in 2011 before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Dylan M. Aste (619) 546-7621.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement on President Donald Trump preparing to declare a national emergency at the southern border...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Alex Alberto Castro received 42 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine. A federal jury convicted Castro in October 2018. He was the lead defendant of a 20-plus defendant drug trial. Chief United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. (“Prime") and Prime’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Prem Reddy, have agreed to pay the United States $1.25 million to settle allegations that two Prime hospitals in Pennsylvania - Roxborough...
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced Vice Chairs for the subcommittees with the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Interorient Marine Services Limited, a vessel operating company, was convicted and sentenced yesterday in the Western District of Louisiana, for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil from the tank vessel Ridgebury Alexandra Z, announced Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Environment and Natural Resources Division and United States Attorney David C. Joseph for the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Loren Glen Warner, 29, of Fresno, CA, who was convicted of production of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Christopher C. Krebs released the following statement today on the agency’s election security work...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, IA-On Jan. 25, 2019, Jay Robert Sebben, age 41, of Waukee, appeared before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was sentenced to 130 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. Sebben pleaded guilty in June 2018 to receipt of child pornography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tara Ponceroff, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted today to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John C. Fortner, 44, of Chillicothe, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for attempting to coerce a minor while registered as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 53-year-old Reynaldo “Sonny" Jesus Peralez, owner and operator of Bohannon Oil Services, L.L.C., was sentenced for scheming to defraud investors of over $3.5 million dollars by routing false and fraudulent investment into trucks and transportation involved in the transport...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging MICHAEL SZWARC, 31, last residing in Hartford, with one count of receipt of child pornography.
