News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management Fillmore Field Office reopened the Little Sahara Recreation Area visitor center on Feb. 18, for Monday - Friday operations. Starting on March 1, the visitor center will also be open on weekends.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Three Butler County men have been arrested and charged in a conspiracy to ship stolen baby formula and other goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Survival Armor, Inc. has agreed to pay $900,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it wrongfully obtained a five-year small business set-aside contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security by misrepresenting its company size.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Escape from Custody and Criminal Contempt.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Park Visitation Rises in 2018 with New Foothills Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Nine Real Estate Investors Sentenced for Rigging Bids at Mississippi Public Foreclosure Auctions.
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: ALBANY, NEW YORK -John Curley, age 48, of Chester, Vermont, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of meeting a minor for sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 45-year-old former pharmaceutical representative Holly Blakely, of San Antonio, TX, pleaded guilty for her role in an $8 million health care fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, announced U.S. Attorney John Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Received Disability Payments for Her Mother, Who Died Nearly 50 Years Ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: An illegal charter operator was sentenced in federal court yesterday for violating a U.S. Coast Guard Captain of the Port Order.
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 DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Cory Gardner, R-Colo., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., recently reintroduced bipartisan legislation to improve the science and coordination needed to help local communities prepare for and respond to landslides and other natural hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments today in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced GEORGE HADDEN, 36, of Fayetteville, North Carolina to 240 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. HADDEN was sentenced as an Armed Career Criminal.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Hilti Inc. - a hardware merchant wholesaler - for exposing employees to struck-by hazards after an employee was injured while operating a forklift at a distribution center in Atlanta, Georgia. The Plano, Texas-based company faces penalties of $164,802.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a four-count federal indictment against JARED ROSS BOSWELL, 32, for distributing child pornography, sending obscene material to a minor, and stalking a minor via the internet. BOSWELL, who was charged in a criminal complaint on Jan. 22, 2019, will remain in detention pending further proceedings.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The diversity of bird life in the Headwaters Forest Reserve will be on display in a free, guided birding walk, Friday, March 1, at the Headwaters Forest Reserve.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum mechanics instead of the strictly particle nature of ordinary classical physics. The creation of this gas boosts the odds for advances in fields such as designer chemistry and quantum computing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging ORLANDO SOTO, 27, of Hartford, with narcotics and firearms offenses.
