News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A husband and wife from Crystal Lake have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple bank robberies in Northern Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: A Florida man has been formally indicted for his role in a scheme to steal money from Crowley Independent School District (ISD) in Crowley, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, Jose Rodriguez was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric N. Vitaliano to 272 months’ imprisonment for leading a Far Rockaway-based drug trafficking organization that distributed more than a kilogram of heroin, quantities of crack and powder cocaine and marijuana, and sold more ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and general contractor Langlas & Associates Inc. have established a partnership to protect employees and enhance workplace safety and health at the Lockwood High School construction project in Billings, Montana.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service will hold Commercial Services Orientations and Open Houses on Hatteras, Ocracoke, and Roanoke Islands to share information about the Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) programs at Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A husband and wife from Crystal Lake have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple bank robberies in Northern Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Recruited people to bring pounds of methamphetamine to Iowa from California in car engine compartments.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Washington man who admitted attempting to view child pornography on a computer while riding a bus was sentenced today to a mandatory minimum 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to a Child and Child Abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES) Geospatial Division is collaborating with the National Park Service Homestead National Monument to present at RootsTech 2019, Salt Lake City, February 27 - March 2, 2019, to help families discover their homesteading history.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Turtle Creek, PA has been sentenced in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his convictions on a federal firearms charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Genaro Cuero (64, Buenaventura, Colombia) today pleaded guilty to a conspiracy violation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act. He faces a minimum mandatory term of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. announced today that the Northern District of Iowa collected $4,488,405.85 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $1,839,911.31 was collected in criminal actions and $2,648,494.54 was collected in civil actions.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The U.S. Department of Energy and Israel’s Ministry of Energy along with the Israel Innovation Authority have announced the selection of the U.S.-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation to manage the newly established U.S.-Israel Energy Center. The U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MACON- The defendant in the center of a scheme to award millions of dollars in military contracts in exchange for illegal kickbacks at Robins Air Force Base was sentenced in federal court Wednesday, announced Charles “Charlie" E. Peeler, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The Honorable...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: In Waco, 49-year-old Ronnie Lee Tanner, Jr., of San Diego, CA, remains in federal custody charged with robbing a Wells Fargo Bank branch located in Temple, TX, on Wednesday, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Temple Police Chief Floyd O. Mitchell.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that United States District Court Judge, Lance M. Africk, sentenced RODNEY LAVALAIS, age 33, of New Orleans, to 105 months of imprisonment, to be served in the United States Bureau of Prisons. The sentence will run concurrent with Jan. 10, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Yesterday, former IDOC correctional officer Robert Wallin, 36, was sentenced to 37 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Wallin to serve three years’ supervised release after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR OVIDIO DIAZ GARRIDO, 41, a citizen of Guatemala last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Canadian man living in Leesburg was sentenced today to 21 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl that caused two deaths and one non-fatal overdose in 2016.
