News from February 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
Release: PHILADELPHIA - Residents of the Philadelphia area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside Philadelphia International Airport from March 25th to 29th, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" enrollment center in Terminal B.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Eugene Ripp, 66, DeForest, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty yesterday to willfully engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a qualifying federal firearms license.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Jermaine Green, also known as “730," a member of the Bloods street gang from Roosevelt, New York, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 15 years’ imprisonment on his conviction for racketeering and discharging a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DANNY L. LETARD (“LETARD"), age 57, of Hammond, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Chance Ward, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, and Ramiro Pimentel, Jr., of Clarksburg, West Virginia, have admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco police officer Rain Olson Daugherty pleaded guilty today to robbing two San Francisco banks, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable William H. Orrick, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Feb. 19, 2019, Mondell V. Olson, age 67, of Nevada, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for the offense of false information and hoaxes, or mailing a ‘powder letter’ to the Nevada Schools, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Olson was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Feb. 19, 2019, Mondell V. Olson, age 67, of Nevada, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for the offense of false information and hoaxes, or mailing a ‘powder letter’ to the Nevada Schools, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Olson was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
Release: Summary:The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making an environmental assessment available for public review and comment. This EA covers the environmental impacts of field testing a new vaccine to protect poultry chicks against Marek’s disease, Newcastle disease and bursal disease. This field test is needed prior to requesting licensing for the vaccine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - A Queens man who directed women in the Philippines to sexually abuse children and send him photographs of the abuse in exchange for cash was sentenced early Thursday to 15 years’ imprisonment. Keith Liwanag, 27, was sentenced following his June 2018 guilty plea for the sexual exploitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981 and Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Clynn Partee, 46, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to a term of 21 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for failure to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst. Partee was also ordered to pay a $2,100 fine. He entered a guilty plea to the charge on Nov. 28, 2018 before Judge Guirola.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging death-eligible offenses against 11 members of MS-13 for their role in the kidnapping and murder of two juveniles in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Brandon Galette, 24, of Harrisburg, PA, and Andrew Garrett, 24, of Steelton, PA, were charged today by Indictment with one count of attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and one count of using, carrying...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $65,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 30-year-old resident of Conroe has been sentenced to federal prison for possessing and selling homemade machine guns, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Michael Lee Price pleaded guilty Oct. 5, 2018, admitting he illegally possessed machine guns, possessed unregistered machine guns and engaged in the business of selling firearms without a license.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., today warned the Trump Administration against the ongoing promotion and approval of harmful Medicaid waivers, citing the significant coverage losses taking place in states like Arkansas and the Administration’s failure to appropriately track or evaluate the impact of the misguided policies.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is planning to burn some piles of timber slash in Meagher County this winter as weather conditions allow.
