News published on Federal Newswire in February 2019

News from February 2019


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS)-National Park Service Northeast Region (NER) Director Gay Vietzke has named Kelly Fellner as the new superintendent of Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Massachusetts. She will also administer Coltsville National Historical Park, which is in the process of being established as an NPS site.


Domestic Violence Offender Federally Charged for Illegal Possession of Firearm

News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Kyle Steven Moody, 32, of Fairbanks, has been charged in federal court with one count of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.


Atlantic County, New Jersey, Man Admits Distributing Images Of Child Sexual Abuse

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in distributing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.


Registered Sex Offender Charged In “Sextortion” Case

News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the indictment of DYLAN MATTHEW DELING, a/k/a “Jason Keens," a/k/a “Dylan Nash," 19, on child pornography and extortion charges. DELING made his initial appearance yesterday before Magistrate Judge Katherine Menendez, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that STANISLAV VITALIYEVICH LISOV, a/k/a “Black," a/k/a “Blackf" (“LISOV"), pled...


Rockford Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Robbery and Firearm Charges

News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to one count of attempted robbery and one count of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.


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, ...



News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office and Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Miami Regional Office, Office of Inspector...


News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A 28-year-old Tulsa man pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to distribution of child pornography, enticing a minor and tampering with a witness and evidence, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Chad Carl Jaycox, 28, of Yuba City, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison to be followed by 25 years of supervised release for receiving images of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


Pallone & Schakowsky Begin Long-Overdue Oversight of CPSC

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote today to Acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Ann Marie Buerkle to reassume the Committee’s traditional role of oversight over the Commission.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote today to Acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Ann Marie Buerkle to reassume the Committee’s traditional role of oversight over the Commission.


News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that STANISLAV VITALIYEVICH LISOV, a/k/a “Black," a/k/a “Blackf" (“LISOV"), pled...


Canadian Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Ecstasy Smuggling Conspiracy

News Release: Defendant Carried Firearm in one Smuggling Attempt-Denies He Fired Gun in a Second Thwarted Smuggling Operation.


Randolph County woman admits to drug distribution

News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Kelsey Rae Sylvester, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to maintaining a drug house, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.


News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Randy D. Usow (age 63) of Mequon, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $800,000 from the federal government by filing false tax returns in the name of one of his clients and for using the identity of that client to help commit his theft.


The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, Arvada and Lakewood Police Departments Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber Dubbed the 'Pom Pom Bandit.'

News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, Arvada and Lakewood Police Departments Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber Dubbed the 'Pom Pom Bandit.'.


Murray: Trump-Pence Women’s Health Gag Rule “Meant To Do One Thing And One Thing Only: Further Erode Women’s Constitutionally Protected Rights”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Trump-Pence Administration’s rule making it illegal for health care providers at clinics that receive Title X family planning program funds to refer patients for abortions.


Federal Charges for Harassing Telephone Calls in Interstate Communication

News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of Elimar Chardon Sierra.