News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Sunday Feb. 24, 2019, a park visitor was killed in an incident on the Mist Trail in Yosemite National Park. Xuan Wang, 56, from Cupertino, California was hiking on the trail when she was struck by falling rock and ice and she succumbed to her injuries soon thereafter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Defendant faces 10 year mandatory minimum sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Accused of Using “USB Killer Device" to Destroy Dozens of Computers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Seeks to Shut Down Two Texas Tax Return Preparers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A South Point, Ohio man who was caught selling methamphetamine in Huntington last year pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jose Cisneros, 28, entered a guilty plea to distributing methamphetamine in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Vishwanath Akuthota, age 26, of Albany, was arrested on February 22 in North Carolina after being charged with intentionally causing damage to protected computers owned by The College of Saint Rose in Albany.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced in federal court in Boston today to 10 years in prison for trafficking heroin and fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) released the following statement on Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Russ Vought’s op-ed announcing that President Trump’s fiscal year 2020 budget request will propose a five percent cut in non-defense discretionary spending.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Amy Bingaman, 34, of Levant, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 12 months and one day in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiracy to make false statements to a federal firearms licensee and making false statements to federal agents.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 279,400 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico. Of the total, 88,500 metric tons is for delivery during the 2018/2019 marketing year and 190,900 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Anton Grguric Jr., age 46, of Choctaw, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 132 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Early morning on Thursday, Feb. 14, a landslide occurred above Sausalito Boulevard after heavy rain from a winter storm event. The area involved in the landslide is part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area with boundaries of private property in Sausalito to the east, and Highway 101 to the west.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Port Vue, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brian Kyle, of Maidsville, West Virginia, and Hamisi Mwawari, of Morgantown, West Virginia, have admitted to their involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Richard Bowe (40, Tampa) pleaded guilty today to four counts of making false statements to federally insured federal credit unions. Bowe faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing date has not yet been set.
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 Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The 13-mile Scenic Drive at Red Rock Canyon will be open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. starting March 1. This change happens yearly as days become longer and sunset is later in the day. The Visitor Center will continue to be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Michael Foder, a former detective employed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) at the time of the charged conduct, was sentenced in federal court in Brooklyn today by United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen to three months’ imprisonment. In August 2018, Foder pleaded guilty to perjury in connection with false statements he made under oath during a criminal proceeding. Foder was arrested in February 2018 and resigned from the NYPD in August 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: A 25-year-old Claremore man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of one count of sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. Zachary Newberry pleaded guilty Nov. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Miguel Moreno Was Trafficking Thousands of Grams of Pure Methamphetamine.
