News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M.-In keeping with the Administration’s priority to sustainably develop energy and natural resources on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico State Office has deferred nine parcels for its scheduled March oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida- Juan Alberto Flores-Jimenez (34, Tamaulipas, Mexico), a/k/a Juan Cantu, a/k/a Stoner, today pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Flores-Jimenez is the eighteenth...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Temporary Restraining Order Issued Against Celina, Tennessee Pharmacies and Pharmacists.
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: BILLINGS - U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced today the recent hiring of five new assistant U.S. attorneys for the District of Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that, FELIX COLON, 21, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of PixarBio Corp., a Boston-based biotech company, pleaded guilty yesterday to securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to defraud investors and manipulate the company’s shares.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Colombian national has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that DIEUDONNE SOIFILS, age 72, a citizen of Haiti and resident of Beaufort County, North Carolina, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Louise Wood Flanagan to twelve (12) months’ probation and a $25 special assessment. SOIFILS’ sentencing follows his guilty plea to voting by an alien.
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 issued an indictment against Michael J. Propst (age: 46) of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Preparations are underway for Ozark National Scenic Riverways to accomplish several prescribed burns this spring. Prescribed burning provides a variety of benefits to native species and habitats, and helps reduce the threat of devastating wildfires. The burns will be carefully planned...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Beginning in February and continuing through spring, the Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed fire in Cibola County, weather permitting. The burn, which will occur in the 4,000 acre Chain of Craters-Rendija prescribed fire project, will be conducted in several phases.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 9 months’ imprisonment followed by 2 years of supervised release on his conviction for violating federal tax and social security fraud laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Romance Scams.
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 issued an indictment against Michael J. Propst (age: 46) of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - The Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that Quintail Credit, a former officer at the Richwood Correctional Center, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to cover up the physical assault of five inmates by officers. Credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on February 5, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against two men allegedly involved in a firearms offense in the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Tony A. Fish, Jr. (age:...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Teddy Stevens, 45, currently of Arizona but formerly of Middleton, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for bankruptcy fraud. Stevens pleaded guilty to the charge on November 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Harvey S. Schlesinger has sentenced Gloria Wiley (73, Danville, KY) to one year and one day in federal prison for failing to refund federal student aid money, commonly referred to as Stafford Loans and Pell Grants. The court also ordered Wiley to pay $288,875.92...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Taurean McShan, who allegedly severely injured an Atlanta, GA police officer, was arrested today.
