News from February 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations adopted a motion to adjourn today’s 2:00pm hearing after a motion by Republican members secured a majority of votes. The hearing was properly adjourned as the subject matter and witness’ written...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Matthew Meadows, a convicted felon, has been sentenced to federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Gregory Michael Christensen, 45, of Haines, Alaska, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Scott Edward Cavell, 35, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to one count of causing misbranded drugs to be introduced into interstate commerce, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: The best federal approach to ensuring cleaner, more resilient transportation and infrastructure is to enact policies that provide flexibility, foster innovation, and allow the private sector to continue responding to consumer-driven demand. According to witnesses at today’s Committee hearing, such an approach is more feasible when compared to adopting sweeping and costly one-size-fits-all mandates.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A man from Brazil was sentenced Tuesday to serve over a year in federal prison for intimidating a flight crew and flight attendants, and lessening and interfering with their ability to perform their duties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Patricia Wilson of Dyersburg was sentenced to 240 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley was sentenced to 15 months in prison for possessing a weapon. Dave Berrios-Hernandez, 24, pled guilty in November, admitting that on September 5, 2017, while he was an inmate...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Palmdale, California, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- Darrell E. McCoy, 51, formerly of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes yesterday to 6 months’ home confinement and five years’ probation. This sentencing follows McCoy’s conviction on Nov. 2, 2018, after a jury trial where he was convicted of two counts of abusive sexual contact with a ward.
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: 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: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Darryl Wayne Griffin, Sr., 55, of Carriere, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of accessing with intent to view visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced CALVIN BRUCE BEARD, a/k/a “40 Cal.", 39, of Fayetteville to 262 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised released.
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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today cheered passage of the historic Natural Resources Management Act, a bipartisan conservation and public lands package that includes permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and designates approximately 1.3 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: A Broken Arrow woman was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for a wire fraud scheme involving the embezzlement of more than $2.6 million from an Inola business and to signing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Feb. 25, 2019, Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp, sentenced Jasive Zamora-Carrillo to a term of imprisonment of 168 months, and Luis Tafoya to a term of imprisonment of 18 months. Zamora-Carrillo and Tafoya will serve their sentences...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: International Falls, MN: Join a ranger to explore the Echo Bay Ski Trail-all levels and abilities welcome! The program will begin with an introduction to the equipment and basic techniques of classical skiing. From there we will explore the first mile-long loop of the Echo Bay Trail. Skiers who want to challenge their abilities may continue to the more advanced outer loop.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2019
News Release: Salinas, CA - A large-scale, four-month-long gang enforcement operation named “Operation Triple Beam" concluded Feb. 15 with the arrest of 197 fugitives, 94 of whom were gang members or associates.
