News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an effort to improve the habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse in the West, the U.S. Department of the Interior today issued a Record of Decision for the treatment of 617,000 acres of land in Owyhee County, Idaho. The decision is supported by the Bruneau-Owyhee Sage-Grouse Habitat (BOSH) Project...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William E. Tyler, age 55, of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to the illegal transfer and possession of a machine gun. Tyler is the former Chief of Police in Taneytown, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Three defendants recently pled guilty, including two medical professionals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Lisa McLaren Janick (48, Port Charlotte) to 16 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including “El Chapo" and “El Rapido," was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of being a principal leader of a continuing criminal enterprise - the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel - a charge...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: In a couple of years, the number of drones in the U.S. national airspace is projected to grow to more than seven million. So many drones together in the air at once has the potential to create serious safety, efficiency and security issues if not regulated. NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Thousands of Zion National Park visitors are expected over the Presidents’ Day Weekend beginning Feb. 15, 2019. In 2018, the park hosted more than 25,000 visitors, an 18 percent increase over the 2017 holiday weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - The last defendant charged in relation to a more than $40 million securities fraud “pump and dump" conspiracy has now been convicted, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. With the guilty plea of John David Brotherton, 59, of League City, today, all seven defendants charged in the case now stand convicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Christopher Columbus Kennedy, 43, of Petal, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 66 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Kennedy was also ordered to pay a $4,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Two others plead guilty. BOSTON - One Romanian national was sentenced and two Romanian nationals pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with an ATM skimming scheme operating throughout Massachusetts and other states including Connecticut, New York and South Carolina. Florinel...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - A 59-year-old South Korean fugitive, convicted in his home country for the offenses of indecent assault and causing physical injury, was removed from the United States Feb. 11, by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Eric B. Smith Named Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday has sentenced Lisa McLaren Janick (48, Port Charlotte) to 16 months in federal prison for healthcare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Federal Charges Stem from Defendants’ Submissions of Fraudulent Claims for Reimbursement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Willie Earl Hector, 33, of Muskegon Heights, Michigan, was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in federal prison for drug and firearm offenses, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff imposed a 3-year term of supervised release that will commence once Hector is released from imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities today arrested one of two defendants charged in a federal indictment with making false threats of violent attacks at many locations - including Los Angeles International Airport and numerous Southern California school districts - and staging attacks on computer systems belonging to institutions and companies, including a Long Beach-based company.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, along with Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Committee on Appropriations, re-introduced legislation to ensure that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening workforce employees - ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Beginning in February and continuing through spring 2019, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico plans to conduct prescribed burns in Chaves County. The Sand Ranch prescribed fire consists of three burn units located 40 miles east of Roswell. The operations are dependent upon favorable weather conditions...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Tom Carper (D-DE), Senator...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), Ranking Member Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and ENR Committee member Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today led the Senate’s strong bipartisan approval of S. 47, the Natural Resources Management Act. The Senate passed the legislation this afternoon on a final vote of 92 to 8, and it will now head to the House of Representatives.
