News from February 2019
By USDA Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 21, 2019 - To ensure America’s dietary guidance reflects the latest science, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today announced the appointment of 20 nationally recognized scientists to serve on the 2020 Dietary...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Mark Ringland, age 53, was convicted Wednesday of receiving child pornography after a two-day jury trial in federal court. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp was the presiding judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three men were arrested this morning on federal drug distribution charges alleging they conspired with a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and others to steal more than 1,200 pounds of marijuana and $645,000 in cash and money orders during an armed robbery of a downtown Los Angeles warehouse that was staged to look like law enforcement was executing a search warrant.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Nicholas “Nic" Strohmeyer has been named as the new helicopter specialist for the National Park Service’s Branch of Aviation. The position had been vacant since Meg Gallagher became branch chief in early 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicopee police officer pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield in connection with immigration fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeny Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, New York Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Michael C. Mikulka, Special Agent-in-Charge, New York Region, U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The United States has reached an agreement with Rider University to settle allegations that the school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to make reasonable modifications to its policies, practices, and procedures for students with food allergy-related disabilities, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Joseph Howard Admitted to Replacing Fentanyl with Saline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Additionally, Nearly $2.2 Million Collected as Forfeited Proceeds of Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Joseph Deleon (33, Lake County) to 20 years in federal prison for commercial armed robbery and for brandishing a firearm while committing that robbery. Due to the seriousness of his criminal history and the violent nature of his robbery, he qualified for an increased penalty under the Armed Career Criminal Act. A jury found Deleon guilty on Oct. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation, Domestic Assault by an Habitual Offender, and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced NATHAN LAMONTE SILVER, 44, of Clarksville, Tennessee to 200 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nine real estate investors have been sentenced for their role in a conspiracy to rig bids, in violation of the U.S. antitrust laws, at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Southern Mississippi, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Venel Touze, 26, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in District Court before Judge Curtis Gomez, to one count of being an alien in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Charleston, WV - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has matched the U.S. Marshals Service’s offer of a $5,000 reward for information which leads to the arrest and apprehension of a suspect in the attempted murder of a Virginia police officer.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, March 9, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will host the second presentation in its new “Future Scholars Lecture Series." This 1-hour lecture, entitled, “Uncle Billy’s Boys - The 15th Army Corps at Chattanooga," will be presented in the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center’s theater at 2 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Isaias Alvarado, also known as Cabo, 46, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to three counts of murder in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Former English Language Teacher in China Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Contraband Cell Phones Used to Orchestrate Gang Operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 26-year-old undocumented alien from Guatemala has admitted he assaulted a Border Patrol (BP) agent and illegally entered the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
