News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michael James Young Jr., 32, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to over 43 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to purchase a mail bomb from prison over the Dark Web. Co-conspirator Tyrell Fears, 23, of Irmo, South Carolina, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Special Agent in Charge Raymond Donovan, New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration; United States Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, Southern District of New York; Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York City Police Department; Acting Superintendent Keith M. Corlett, New York State...
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: Two individuals were charged in an indictment filed today for their roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme involving purported investments in a start-up financial technology company.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: A timely response by US Park Rangers of Lake Mead National Recreation Area and an investigation by the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch has concluded with a woman being sentenced to prison for child abuse. Justine R. Kirklen, age 33, was recently ordered to serve 30 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for her actions in an incident that occurred previously in the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man has been sentenced to federal prison for 15 separate charges, including distribution of heroin and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. A jury found Darowe Junior Jones, 39, of Tulsa, guilty on Oct. 24, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - This February, employees from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and other agencies came together to conduct a food drive for the St. Joseph’s Food Pantry in Cheyenne. Employees contributed approximately 300 pounds of dried and canned goods during the drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, spoke on the House floor in support of H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Settlement by Nursing Home Chain is Largest Worthless Services Resolution in Tennessee's History.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury today indicted a Wichita man on carjacking and federal firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The founder of My Big Coin Pay Inc., a purported cryptocurrency and virtual payment services company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nev., was arrested and charged today for his participation in a scheme to defraud investors by marketing and selling fraudulent virtual currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan announced that Freddie Silva Otero, 49, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: In Midland today, 39-year-old Odessa, TX, resident Noe Garcia Galan pleaded guilty to a federal firearms charge in connection with the murder of Sean Michael Lamb in 2014, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Representative Michael McCaul and Representative Eliot L. Engel, Lead Republican and Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today introduced legislation condemning the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and calling on the Trump Administration to sanction...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, March 6, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that the First Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday affirmed the conviction and 20 years plus life in prison sentence of Gregory Owens, 62, formerly of Londonderry, New Hampshire, imposed in July 2016 in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa-On Feb. 25, 2019, Joel Thomas Augard, 50, formerly of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey and was sentenced to forty years in prison for two counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Senate nears a vote to open debate on the nomination of Andrew Wheeler to be EPA Administrator, people across the country are speaking truth to power about Mr. Wheeler's actions as EPA acting administrator, and the threat his nomination poses for public health and environmental quality.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Confronting a Growing Public Health Threat: Measles Outbreaks in the U.S.:"
