News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that two illegal aliens pleaded guilty and nine were sentenced last week after being arrested in south Louisiana for various offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 612,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Erick Jamal Hendricks, 38, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: KILLEEN, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Tap Rack Bang Indoor Shooting Range LLC - operating as The Gun Range - for exposing employees to unsafe levels of lead at its facility in Killeen, Texas. The employer faces penalties totaling $214,387.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Ahmad Wagaafe Hared and Matthew Gene Ditman with conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit access device fraud, extortion, and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge John Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Carlinville, Ill., man, Shawn Lee, 45, was sentenced on Feb. 1, 2019, to 17 ½ years (210 months) in federal prison for trafficking ice methamphetamine and possession of firearms, including an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense. At sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that on Feb. 1, 2018, SAMUEL DEWAYNE DOOLITTLE, 33, of Erie, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan for interstate transportation for prostitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Frank Crawford III, age 22, formerly of Virginia, to 12 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for receipt of child pornography in which he enticed a minor victim to send him sexually explicit photos...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Erick Jamal Hendricks, 38, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Jermaine Butler, a 27 year old resident of Selma, Alabama was sentenced to 37 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a Zastava rifle after being convicted of Assault First Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Evansville -United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that an Evansville, Indiana woman who worked as the Executive Director at Echo Housing Corporation, was indicted on three counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal funds. Stephanie L. TenBarge, 71, Evansville, was arrested today and will appear before a federal magistrate judge for her initial appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Harold Dewayne Ennis, Jr., 48, of Allendale, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to theft of federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Defendant also ordered to pay over $5 million in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: At 5:20 am this morning, National Park Service Rangers were called out to assist the United States Coast Guard and Hatteras Island Rescue Squad in a search for an overturned vessel near Cape Point. The vessel, a shrimp trawler named Big John (Wanchese, NC), was found broken apart a half mile north of Cape Hatteras National Seashore off-road vehicle (ORV) ramp 49 near Frisco, North Carolina.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- The status of our Nation’s roads, bridges, transit systems, clean water systems, ports and inland waterways, and airports, the trillion-dollar backlog of maintenance and repair needs, and the increasing costs of Federal inaction will be the subject of this week’s hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An Ames, Iowa sex offender was sentenced in federal court today on child sexual exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Holmes, 28, of Rockingham, Vermont, was sentenced on Jan. 18, 2019, to 54 months imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey Crawford, in U.S. District Court in Burlington, Vermont. Judge Crawford...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Leonard Franklin Clark, 31, of North Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in three Mt. Pleasant robberies. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: Brandished the Gun During a Traffic Stop in Dubuque, Resulting in a Nearby Elementary School Being Locked Down.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) today formed an alliance with The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) and the Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) to provide training resources and information on protecting the health, safety, and security of workers, emergency responders, and communities surrounding establishments in the agricultural retail and supply industry.
