News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After five days of jury trial, Dr. Guillermo Tirado-Menéndez entered a straight guilty plea to Count one - conspiracy to distribute and dispense at least 70,000 units of Oxycodone (Percocet) and at least 40,000 units of Alprazolam (Xanax) and Count three - possession with intent to dispense...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Juan Gomez-Fonseca, age 49, of Bridgeport, Washington, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2018, to being an Alien Illegally in the United States After Previously Being Deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDRA GRAVES, age 31, was charged on Jan. 31, 2019 in a two-count bill of information with theft of government funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 and identity theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: A 35-year-old Tulsa man entered a guilty plea today in U.S. District Court for digitally producing images depicting the sexual abuse of children and distributing almost 500 other graphic image and video files of the sexual abuse of children, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man, previously convicted in state court of six felonies, was found guilty in federal court today of being a felon in possession of a handgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BRONX, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this week announced that the Committee will hold its full first hearing and markup of the 116th Congress on Wednesday, February 6, 2019. The Committee will convene to hear expert witness testimony on U.S. Policy in the Arabian Peninsula. Immediately following the hearing, the Committee will consider H.J.Res 37, a resolution dealing with war powers in Yemen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Three more Texas men have recently pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing 654 firearms from United Parcel Service trailers in Springfield, Mo., en route to Bass Pro Shops.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 1, 2019, Silas Deswood Yazzie, 52, of Kayenta, Ariz, a member of the Navajo Nation, was convicted by a jury of assault with a dangerous weapon and simple assault. Yazzie is scheduled to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan in April 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Roseanna Coomes, 67, of Bluefield, West Virginia, pled guilty to executing a decade-long wire fraud scheme where she embezzled more than $969,000 from her employer, Cole Truck Parts. She also pled guilty to a related tax offense. As...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - Beginning on or about February 6, 2019, the Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, will begin gather operations to reduce an overpopulation of wild horses in the Pine Nut Mountains herd management area near Carson City. Excessive grazing from wild horses has already degraded...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos: We write with regard to the decision to install Department of Education (ED) Deputy General Counsel Philip H. Rosenfelt as the Department’s Acting Inspector General. Specifically, we request documents and information regarding the decision to place a senior Department official...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VINCENT JONES, 50, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of bank robbery.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Belizean national on the list of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) most wanted deportable aliens charged in federal court last month with illegal re-entry into the United States following his deportation - a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Banking Committee Ranking Member Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sent a letter today urging Secretary Mnuchin to stay aggressive in his approach in ongoing negations with China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England Division, and U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Meghan Bowers, 31, formerly of Keene, N.H., was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-area musician pleaded guilty Friday to a federal child pornography charge and admitted to enticing several underage girls, many as young as 14 years old, to produce sexually explicit videos of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Kodiak man has been sentenced to federal prison for possessing a firearm while trafficking drugs that were intended for distribution in Kodiak, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A man identified as a member of the Heath Street Gang was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for drug trafficking and illegal possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah-To enable the international astrophysics community of scientists a better understanding of the nature and origin of cosmic rays, the Bureau of Land Management Fillmore Field Office released the Final Environmental Assessment (EA), Decision, and Finding of No Significant Impact for the...
