News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FBI Releases Preliminary Semiannual Crime Statistics for 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Zachary Adam Johnson has been sentenced for aggravated identity theft and mail theft. The defendant was previously a part-time mail carrier for the postal service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Alberto Perez, 31, of Fresno, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to eight years and four months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined by Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), took to the Senate floor to...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Confederate Avenue between Fort Hill and Graveyard Road has reopened to all traffic following the completion of road repairs. Crews have now shifted their work to repairing the erosion damage on North Union Avenue near the Navy Monument. As a result, North Union Avenue is now temporarily closed from Grant Avenue to the USS Cairo Museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX- Last week, Elias Bermudez, 68, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $131,651 in restitution to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antonio Broadus, 33, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Third Degree Burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal inmate, Taloa Latu, 29, was sentenced today to 8 years of imprisonment for committing an assault resulting in serious bodily injury to another inmate. Following his incarceration, Latu will be on supervised release for 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught selling fentanyl and methamphetamine last year in Huntington pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brandon Scott Kidd, 39, entered a guilty plea to distributing fentanyl and methamphetamine in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Luray, Virginia: Shenandoah National Park is seeking applicants for its summer Shenandoah Youth Corps (SYC) program. This program provides youth, ages 16-18, a hands-on and educational experience in the conservation of the park’s natural and cultural heritage. SYC participants work to maintain park trails, roads, buildings and campgrounds while learning about Shenandoah National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn accountant pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to assisting a multi-year mortgage fraud scheme by creating fraudulent tax returns and submitting fraudulent letters to lenders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Javier Beltran, 25, of Strathmore, to 23 years in prison for his conviction for two counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and he sentenced Ulises Medina, 25, of Earlimart, to 15 years in prison for his conviction for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - James Philip Lucero was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for the unpermitted discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States, including wetlands, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Special Agent in Charge Jay M. Green, Federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Don Young (R-AK) introduced the Federal Labor-Management Partnerships Act, a bill to reinstate advisory panels that promote dialogue and foster partnerships between labor and federal agency management. First established nearly 25 years ago, the panels were disbanded by President Donald Trump in September 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Eduardo Hernandez Sanchez, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 87 months incarceration for illegal reentry, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: An investigation by a Special Agent of the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) and US Park Rangers led to the conviction and sentencing of a man for domestic violence in Grand Canyon National Park. Alexander Cabrera, age 39, will serve a year of supervised probation and must attend...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Marvin A. Jones, 24, a resident of New Jersey who recently lived in Vermont, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment on Feb. 20, 2019, in United States District Court in Rutland.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a prize competition to spur innovation in wave energy-powered desalination systems. The Waves to Water Prize will draw upon U.S. innovators to accelerate technology development through a series of contests to demonstrate small, modular, cost-competitive desalination systems that use the power of the ocean to provide potable drinking water to remote coastal and island communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA) of more than $200,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
