News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: “The defendant, like every person on the street, is guaranteed certain rights under our Constitution. Among those rights are the rights to due process and a fair trial. The defendant exercised his constitutional rights and the jury acquitted him on three counts. That is the way our Constitution and our system of justice are supposed to work. We accept the jury’s verdict, and we will be seeking an immediate retrial of the defendant on Count 4 of the Superseding Indictment." #.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Juneau man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy to transport heroin and methamphetamine from the lower 48 to Alaska for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger has announced that last Friday, United States District Judge Lynn Adelman sentenced Lamont Walker to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release after Walker pled guilty to attempting to rob a Walgreens store and brandishing a gun during the attempted robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, a federal judge sentenced Former Reeves County Judge Jimmy Galindo to 30 months imprisonment on federal bribery and income tax related charges, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; and, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico. Of the total, 48,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year and 72,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Springfield, MO - U.S. Marshal Mark S. James, Western District of Missouri, announces the arrest of fugitive Davonte Patrick Bullock, on February 13th, 2019, in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ethan Rumery, 24, of Pittsfield, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to violate federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Donald Lee Blackbird, age 59, of Vian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Attempted Sexual Abuse Of A Minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153, 2243(a) and 2246. The charges arose from an investigation by the Cherokee Nation Marshal Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that today, in federal court, TERRY SLAUGHTER, age 48, pled guilty to embezzlement of labor union assets. In pleading guilty, SLAUGHTER, agreed to make restitution to the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union 1208 in the amount of $62,315.38.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Romeo Valentin Sanchez (31, Cape Coral) guilty of enticing two minors to commit sex acts and producing and possessing child pornography. The jury also found him guilty of committing these offenses while already being required to register as a sex offender. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Katina Sabatino, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today welcomed the House of Representatives’ bipartisan approval of S. 47, the Natural Resources Management Act. After the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 92 to 8 on Feb. 12, the House passed it this afternoon by a vote of 363 to 62. The bill will now head to the president’s desk.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's "VA General Oversight Hearing".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria pastor was sentenced today to 8 years in prison for a $2 million fraud scheme that victimized members of his congregation, clergymen, and prospective investors in a Nigerian oil scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Justine Renee Kirklen, 33, of Bullhead City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Kirklen had previously pleaded guilty to child abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: “Over the past 10 months, National Park Service staff and partners have taken an aggressive approach to develop and implement an expedited plan to repair the damage to the visitor loading ramp on the USS Arizona Memorial. Despite our best efforts and optimism, our previously estimated timeline for restoring access to the USS Arizona Memorial has been delayed and it will not reopen this March.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Tuan Ngoc Nguyen was sentenced today to 160 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman, United States District Judge.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM’s cleanup contractor at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site recently reached a safety benchmark by exceeding 2 million hours without a lost workday due to reported illness or injury. This achievement comes after Fluor Idaho received a VPP Star re-certification and Superior...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Adam Scott Pike, 43, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, was sentenced on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve 22.5 years in prison, to be followed by a life term of supervised release, for traveling to Alaska with the intent to have sex with a minor, and distribution of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the availability of an environmental assessment (EA) for the biological control of Brazilian peppertree for public review and comment. The Brazilian peppertree is ...
