News from February 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
Release: RICHMOND, Va.- A Hanover County, Virginia, woman was cited by police at Richmond International Airport on Friday, February 22nd after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
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: Baltimore, Maryland - Steven M. Williams, a/k/a “Brother Ray", a/k/a “Ray," age 39, formerly of Delaware, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud, and coercion. Also today, co-defendant Harry E. Rivers, a/k/a “Hakeem" and “Pots," age 29, also of Delaware, pleaded guilty today...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Returned to Drug Dealing Just Months after Finishing Court Supervision on Prior Federal Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Rodney Jackson, 42, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was sentenced on Thursday, by United States District Judge David Bunning, to 336 months in federal prison for possessing Methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant has been deported seven times.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) requesting a vote on three subpoenas that the Chairman intends to send to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Health and Human Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Marcos Ramirez-Mercado, 46, of Yakima, Washington, and Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on September 6, 2018, to a conspiracy to distribute five...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments this week. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statements after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) circulated its draft 2019 Broadband Deployment Report, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robin Williams, 56, of Canada, who was convicted of unlawfully importing marijuana in the form of hashish, was sentenced, in absentia, to serve 41 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Marshals recently launched a new mobile and web-based app that allows the public to anonymously report information they believe will help authorities track down and arrest wanted fugitives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas woman was sentenced yesterday to 34 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $13.9 million in restitution to victims in connection with a series of grant fraud schemes, announced U.S. Attorney District Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada. The woman’s fraud schemes targeted small business owners, many of them elderly, and a separate Medicare and insurance fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition seeking new and innovative ideas to lower the cost of continuous streamflow monitoring compared to current methods. While collecting accurate and reliable streamflow data is critical to water resources planning, management, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb., - East Butler Public School in Brainard, Neb., was presented a $1,000 check by Drug Enforcement Administration Omaha Division staff, Feb. 22, after sixth grader Chance Rohda and his family were recognized as one of 20 2018 Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest winners.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after a court ruled that federal prosecutors in the case against serial child abuser Jeffrey Epstein broke the law by hiding information about his plea deal from survivors of his abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found KWASI GYAMBIBI, 40, of Stamford, guilty of health care fraud offenses.
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: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SIVA, a former stock broker, was sentenced today to eighteen months in prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme based on material, nonpublic information misappropriated from an investment...
