News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal judge sentenced 51-year-old Timothy Robert Beasley to ten years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Florida man was sentenced today to five years in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud for orchestrating a scheme that caused over $1.7 million in losses to multiple victims.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Park Rangers from President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site invite you to stop in the site's visitor center as they unveil two new fixtures of the center in Hope, AR.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Beginning in February and continuing through spring, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed fire in McKinley and Sandoval counties, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury was unsealed today, charging Leticia Tyshalle Reed, 42, of Sacramento, with making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Yesterday, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst recognized members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and its partners with the presentation of the Southern District’s annual awards for superior performance in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted two Florida men yesterday on charges of conspiracy, making false claims on the United States government, and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Driver Admitted Using PCP Prior to Striking Motorcyclist.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that John Verkitus, age 56, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to unlawfully importing synthetic cannabinoids from China between November 2015 and September 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: On March 5-6, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in conjunction with Holloman Air Force Base (Base), is planning a 500-acre prescribed burn, 20 miles northeast of Orogrande in Otero County. The specific project location is on the Centennial Bombing Range within the McGregor Range. The burn is being conducted to reduce the risk of wildfire spreading to public lands from the Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that NORMAN SEABROOK, the former president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association (“COBA") was sentenced to 58 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme in which he accepted a $60,000...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Dear Director Redfield and Assistant Secretary Giroir...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Brandon Hayden, 37, of Lexington, was found guilty today, by a federal jury, of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana and attempt to possess with the intent to distribute 50 kilograms or more of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $4,845.24 in restitution on her conviction of unlawfully distributing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) introduced legislation that would protect Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs and personnel, and the U.S. aviation industry as a whole, from future shutdowns of the Federal Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Michael Cobb, age 49, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania was sentenced on February 6, 2019, by United States District Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 300 months’ imprisonment followed by a 6-year term of supervised release after his conviction on firearms possession and drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on February 5, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Brandon T. Daul (age: 36) of Appleton, Wisconsin.
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: BILLINGS-A Lame Deer woman convicted in a large methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that brought multi-pound quantities to Montana from California was sentenced on Thursday to nine months in prison, two years of house arrest and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man who owned a janitorial supply company admitted today to submitting fraudulent bills to a customer and failing to pay taxes on the illicit proceeds of his scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
