News from February 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire resident was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration officers stopped him from bringing a loaded semi-automatic handgun onto an airplane at Boston Logan International Airport earlier today, Monday, Feb. 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Faisal Garba-Adenkunjo, 29, of the Republic of Benin, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Garba to 6 months’ imprisonment and one year of supervised release after he serves his prison term.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 525, the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act, which was introduced by Walden and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that HERVIN ADOLFO PINEDA, age 44, a native of Nicaragua, was charged Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019 in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Arizona public official pleaded guilty today to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes from a now-defunct Culver City-based debt collection company in exchange for disclosing confidential information that helped the company collect nearly $1 million in outstanding debts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Lawrence Stone, age 64, of Scranton, pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2019, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Long Beach resident who traveled to Mexico to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor - and also enticed his victim to produce child pornography - was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: In collaboration with industry, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first portable prototype of the Fixed-Length Optical Cavity (FLOC), a device that uses light to measure pressure with higher accuracy and precision than most commercial pressure sensors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Overland Park, Kan., woman has been convicted by a federal trial jury for her role in a multi-defendant drug-trafficking conspiracy with ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Lorenzo Castelo of Memphis was sentenced to 300 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Gloved Robber Continues Credit Union Heists.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A man residing in Worcester was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with making a false statement on an application for naturalization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Georgia man was sentenced today to 15 months for a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jahrius Whitehead, 26, previously entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana. The Kenova Police Department conducted the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Westminster, Colorado, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas photographer who posed as a professional modeling photographer and alternative sports sponsor to lure children on the promise of sponsorships pleaded guilty today in federal court in connection to a child sexual exploitation conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Derrius Cunningham, a/k/a Baby, 41, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to distribute and distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine, and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Tomorrow the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will hold a hearing titled, “Examining How Federal Infrastructure Policy Could Help Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change." The hearing will examine the role the transportation sector plays in global warming, explore the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge area of the park. To ensure that these birds of prey can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season and monitored...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Louis -Fatima Ciecierska, a/k/a Fatyma Minikiewicz, a/k/a Ewa Antoniewicz, 47, and Adam Dytlow, a/k/a Adam Jedynak, a/k/a Robert Antoniewicz, 50, who were both Polish Nationals, were sentenced today. Ciecierska and Dytlow were sentenced to time served for aggravated illegal re-entry in the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Corey Robert Clark Ford, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 180 months incarceration for distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
