News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Three individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 20, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 75 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Feb. 20, 2019, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 75 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter and two counts of Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: MACON - An Albany man was indicted on bankruptcy fraud charges this month by a federal grand jury, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Timothy Wayne Giles, 39, of Albany, GA was indicted on one count of False Bankruptcy Declaration for allegedly...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Reviewing the Administration’s Unaccompanied Children Program".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Defendant involved in fraudulent lottery scheme that scammed elderly victims of $325,000.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Roads in Yellowstone National Park will begin to close to oversnow travel on March 1. Spring plowing will start as road segments close. All oversnow travel will end for the season Friday, March 15, at 9 p.m. Weather permitting, some park roads will reopen to automobile travel Friday, April 19, at 8 a.m.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: [as prepared for delivery]. We’re here today to consider the Committee’s budget views and estimates for fiscal year 2020 as required by the Congressional Budget Act and in compliance with House Rules. It’s no surprise the priorities laid out in this letter line up with the priorities of the 2018 Farm...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of possession and distribution of materials depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Three Albany men were charged today in connection with an armed robbery yesterday of an M&T Bank branch in the Town of North Greenbush, in which a bank employee was shot.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, yesterday chaired a hearing to examine the priorities of the U.S. territories and how Congress can help to achieve them. The hearing featured four territorial governors: Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló; Guam Gov. Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero; U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Albert Bryan; and Northern Mariana Islands Gov. Ralph Deleon Guerrero Torres.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Fernando Reyes, 38, a resident of Florida, pled guilty today to federal charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and mail fraud. He appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry who accepted his guilty plea and set sentencing for June 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury yesterday found Keith Kirchoff (41, Key West) guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Kirchoff faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Travis Jonathon Card, 38, of Westbrook, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to five years and ten months in prison and three years of supervised for interfering with commerce by robbery. The charges arose from a series of robberies and attempted robberies in the greater Portland area in March and April, 2018. Card pled guilty to the charges in August, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that eleven individuals have been charged in a multi-count federal indictment for their roles in a wide-ranging conspiracy to import and possess with intent to distribute heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl and other related ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 17 Louisiana parishes as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Catahoula, Jefferson Davis, LaFourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Landry, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa-On Feb. 25, 2019, Arthur Tyrone Lee, Jr., age 38, of Des Moines, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 360 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will incrementally increase releases below Keswick Dam from 7,000 cubic feet per second to 25,000 cfs by 2 p.m. on Feb. 28, and then up to 30,000 cfs on March 2.
