News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ryan Sausedo (619) 546-9689 and Katherine McGrath (619) 546-9054.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Buffalo National River offers a variety of camping opportunities along the river and will be increasing fees in several developed campgrounds starting March 15, 2019. The park has not raised fees since 2013 and as a part of the fee proposal the park compared the prices per site and amenities offered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A two-time felon who possessed multiple handguns and methamphetamine was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announces the selection of Dr. Linda Laras as recipient of the 2018 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). On Friday, February 8, 2019, Special Agent In Charge (SAC) Douglas Leff presented Dr. Laras with the award at the FBI office in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Joseph Demond Towers, 37, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Columbia, SC - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Angela Breitweiser Keith, age 53, and Ann Davis Eldridge, age 58, both of Sumter, South Carolina, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of false statements to defraud Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was arrested today on a charge of aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft and at the flight path of an aircraft on Dec. 6, 2018, in Rockford.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA) and Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Prevent Crime and Terrorism Act to block the Trump Administration’s proposal to transfer firearm export regulation from the U.S. State Department to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Defendants Beat and Stabbed a Suspected Rival Gang Member While Incarcerated at the Manhattan Detention Complex.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Frank Pallone Jr., and Adam Schiff, the Chairmen of the Committees on Oversight and Reform, the Judiciary, Energy and Commerce, and Intelligence, sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker seeking full compliance with their prior...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced that last Friday, United States District Judge Pamela Pepper sentenced Deon Batton to 12 ½ years in prison after he pled guilty to committing five armed robberies in Milwaukee and one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: In Del Rio this week, a federal judge sentenced a Del Rio man and two other men to federal prison for conducting an advanced fee investment scheme through which they obtained in excess of $5 million from their victims, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Due to the lack of access to the National Park Service Planning, Compliance, and Public Comment (PEPC) webpage during the government shutdown, Sequoia and Kings Canyon is extending the date to accept submittals for proposals of land exchanges in the Wilsonia Historic District until March 9, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: A Waterloo man who possessed a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Dr. Charles Gerardi (76, Dunedin) has pleaded guilty to obstructing a Medicare audit. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph A. Heath, Jr., 46, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday chaired a hearing to examine the current status and future of energy innovation in the United States. The hearing featured Department of Energy (DOE) Under Secretary of Science Paul Dabbar, former DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz, and representatives from the Bipartisan Policy Center, ClearPath, the Council on Competitiveness, and West Virginia University.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Three defendants recently sentenced, including a Martinez man who engineered $1.5 million fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling offers a new wave of public service announcements designed primarily to increasing awareness about the dangers and consequences of abusing, selling and sharing prescription opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Tyrell Rashad Cauthern, age 30, of Fort Washington, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl, crack cocaine, and other drugs, and for possession of a firearm in ...
