News from February 2019
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: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GREGORIO ANDERSON ROMERO, 36, a citizen of Honduras last residing in New Britain, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - John Dillon Williamson, 27, of Orlando, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for distributing anabolic steroids. Williamson had pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Jan. 23, 2019, Sonny James Garcia, 35, of the San Carlos Apache Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 15 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Garcia had previously pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Belizean national on the list of U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s most wanted deportable aliens has been charged with illegal re-entry into the United States following his deportation, a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was sentenced today to nearly three years in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Small businesses now have until Feb. 12, 2019 to submit proposals to address homeland security technology needs as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 19.1 Solicitation. The recent solicitation contains 10 topic descriptions from two DHS organizations, eight from the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and two from the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD- Aaron Sperow, 27, of Nashua, was sentenced on Thursday to 102 months in prison for assaulting and robbing an individual who was seeking to purchase firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., brothers and a Sugar Creek, Mo., woman have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to commit a series of armed robberies by luring their victims with online advertisements and ambushing them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury convicted Vallejo couple Marty Marciano Boone, 57, and Ronda Boone, 56, on Thursday for conspiring to launder $2 million that they received after filing fraudulent tax returns, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Michael L. Binder, age 38, of Mishawaka, Indiana, was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2019, before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: For Unlawful Possession of a Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: FRANKLIN, TN: The National Park Service (NPS) has extended the comment period for civic engagement about proposed options to screen a planned housing development. The Stephens Valley development will be built on the east, and eventually the west side, of the Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) near milepost...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and all other EPW Democrats today urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to reopen public comment periods for all pending ...
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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Top Democrats responsible for Social Security policy in the House and Senate today called on the Social Security Administration to withdraw a proposed rule that would limit the right of Americans to receive an in-person appeals hearing if their initial application for Social Security benefits is denied. Workers who are eligible to apply for these benefits have contributed to Social Security for years, paying into the program with each paycheck.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that John Kelvin Conner, 62, was convicted today by a jury of 19 counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement to federal agents. The defendant, an attorney, devised and participated in a scheme to defraud an elderly woman out of more than $95,000 so that he could gamble with her money at casinos.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that DANIEL J. KUESPERT, age 30, of LaPorte County, Indiana, was charged Thursday by grand jury indictment with one count of failure to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., brothers and a Sugar Creek, Mo., woman have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to commit a series of armed robberies by luring their victims with online advertisements and ambushing them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A federal jury sitting in Denver convicted a Colorado Springs man of receipt, storage, and/or possession of a stolen firearm and for being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn, Denver FBI Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips and ATF Denver Special...
