News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office and the Raptor Inventory Nest Survey (RINS) are seeking volunteers to collect and manage data regarding the nesting ecology of eagles, falcons, hawks, ospreys, and owls. Prospective volunteers must contact RINS and attend a training on either Feb. 23, or March 2, from 11:30 am - 4:30 pm at the BLM Salt Lake Field Office located at 2370 S. Decker Lake Blvd., West Valley City, UT 84119.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Parkersburg residents arrested as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state drug trafficking organization (DTO) responsible for distributing methamphetamine and heroin -- pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced today that the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) collected $38,073,605.20 in criminal and civil actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018 (FY 2018). Of this amount, $27,941,783.60 was collected in local civil actions and $10,131,821.60 was...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 33-year-old resident of Sweeny has admitted he employed sexually-oriented websites advertising three minors as young as 15 for commercial sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Eighteen members and associates of a white supremacist gang, the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, were charged in federal court Thursday for their alleged roles in conspiring in a racketeering enterprise, kidnapping, and drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: John Ulrich, former VP of a Teamsters Union and Trustee to Union’s Health Fund, Demanded and Received Tens of Thousands of Dollars From Union’s Third-Party Administrator In Exchange For Using Influence With Union and Health Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 33-year-old resident of Sweeny has admitted he employed sexually-oriented websites advertising three minors as young as 15 for commercial sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a 2016 kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The City of Holyoke has entered into a proposed consent decree with federal and state enforcement authorities agreeing to take critical remedial action to prevent future sewage discharges into the Connecticut River from the City’s sewer collection system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Following a record-breaking number of prosecutions of violent felony offenders in possession of firearms in 2018, the United States Attorney’s office has charged a new round of cases in 2019 as part of the ongoing Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) effort to tackle violent crime in Metro Louisville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier today admitted that she accepted cash bribes in return for removing envelopes containing credit cards from the mail and providing these stolen credit cards to the individual who gave her the cash bribes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Following a record-breaking number of prosecutions of violent felony offenders in possession of firearms in 2018, the United States Attorney’s office has charged a new round of cases in 2019 as part of the ongoing Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) effort to tackle violent crime in Metro Louisville.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) reacted to recent reports that a member of the United States Coast Guard...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Analyst Provided Information to a Los Angeles Attorney and a New York Reporter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Robbery Took Place Last Summer in Southeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: A former Miramar Police Department employee pled guilty today to participating in a fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: As announced recently, Ozark National Scenic Riverways will soon replace several deteriorating or flood-damaged restroom facilities at various locations in the park. New vault toilets will be installed at Rocky Falls, Shawnee Creek Campground, and Buck Hollow Access as scheduled. The installation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Hampton man and woman with conspiracy, health care fraud, false statements, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - The Justice Department has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against TFT Galveston Portfolio LTD (Galveston Portfolio), the owners of the Seasons Resort, an apartment complex located in Galveston as well as against James W. Gartrell Jr., a licensed engineer whose primary place of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Bruquanna Griffin (22, Jacksonville) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for stealing firearms and for conspiring to steal firearms from federally licensed firearms dealers. Griffin had pleaded guilty on March 12, 2018.
