News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Feb. 27, 2019, Timothy Dean Curphey, age 35, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. Curphey was sentenced to 204 months in prison to be followed by a seven-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a 30-year employee of a McHenry County manufacturing firm of stealing trade secret information while planning to move to China to work for a rival company.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Has a Lengthy and Violent Criminal History Including Shooting and Killing Another Person.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Cedar City Field Office has signed a Decision Record authorizing a wild horse gather and removal in the North Hills Joint Management Area (JMA), which is located southwest of Cedar City and is jointly managed by the BLM and U.S. Forest Service. The objective...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Bluefield, West Virginia, man pled guilty to a drug offense in federal court in Bluefield. Alvin Gardner, 31, pled guilty to distribution of oxymorphone. This case was investigated by the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Haley Hunt, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to her involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United State Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today that adds 18 money laundering-related charges to the indictment of Lynn D. Cawthorne, 51, and Belena C. Turner, 47, both of Shreveport.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) released the following statement on the outcome of President Trump’s summit with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell has sentenced Devin Lashawn Jefferson, II (22, Apopka) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for attempting to possess with the intent to distribute furanyl fentanyl. A federal jury found Jefferson guilty of the offense on Sept. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing more than 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine and a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing where International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Dr. Fatih Birol testified about his agency’s perspective on global energy markets. IEA, which was founded in 1974, now includes 30 member countries and is a leader on global energy policy and analysis.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests are seeking public comments on a revised oil and gas proposal about 12 miles northeast of Paonia.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is investing $122 million (PDF, 91 KB) to expand and upgrade rural electric systems in Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The funding includes more than $7 million to finance smart grid technologies to improve system operations and monitor grid security.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Understanding how proteins clump together is essential in modern pharmaceuticals. When these tiny particles aggregate, they can alter the effectiveness of both vaccines and drugs, especially many of the new, popular formulations derived from monoclonal antibodies. Despite its importance, the industry...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Spokane - Today, Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Michelle Susan Ferrell, age 59, of Spokane Valley, Washington, pled guilty to wire fraud. Senior United States District Judge Robert H. Whaley accepted Ferrell’s guilty plea and scheduled a sentencing hearing for May 14, 2019 at 9:30 a.m. in Spokane, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tyron Evans, age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Feb. 27, 2019, his co-defendant, Brandon Pride, age 38, also of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: (Feb. 28, 2019) - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota issued a statement Thursday following the World Trade Organization’s ruling in favor of the United States in its complaint alleging unfair subsidies for Chinese rice and wheat producers. The complaint, initiated...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Jason Pantone Charged With Mailing Hoax Letters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Elvin Castron-Murcia, 20, a Honduran native residing between Louisiana and Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to traveling for illicit sexual conduct and transporting a minor for criminal sexual activity. The guilty plea was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Jose Luis Gonzales, 40, of Twin Falls, and David Lee Martell, 47, of Nampa, were sentenced to federal prison this week for participating in a drug trafficking organization, announced U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis. Gonzales was sentenced Wednesday to ten years in federal prison followed by five...
