News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that John Frazier Fish, age 38, of Okemah, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea for Felon In Possession Of Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: A Massillon man who worked as a school information technology manager was sentenced to 11 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - Francisco Gallegos-Avena, 37, of Guaymas Sonoro, Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Zakee Abdur Rasheed, age 47, pleaded guilty on Feb. 19, 2019 to possession of identification document with intent to defraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Also Had Five Previous Convictions for Interfering with the Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JESSE MARCUS ESTES, age 44, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Giesey, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced 52-year-old Stacey A. Sanders, the former office manager of Memorial Presbyterian Church, located in Fredericksburg, TX, to 27 months imprisonment in connection with a scheme to write and sign unauthorized checks on the church’s bank accounts, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-Missoula resident Canon Jack Byers, 32, who admitted to distributing more than seven pounds of methamphetamine in 2018, was sentenced today to seven years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: FBI and Marquette University Police Department to Host 2019 Future Law Enforcement Youth Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that a federal jury convicted Jesus Javier Malagon, 31, of Twin Falls, of unlawfully possessing firearms as a felon, possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute, and using and discharging a firearm during and in relation to the drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for her role in a food stamps fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Feb. 20, 2019, James Fitzgerald Simonton, a/k/a “Boogie," 51, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 330 months in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: A man with a lengthy and violent criminal history who illegally possessed a handgun was sentenced today to nearly four years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: What: The U.S. Census Bureau will host technology industry and university teams to showcase 20+ new innovative tech tools at an interagency demonstration day created through a federal initiative called The Opportunity Project (TOP). These new tools address challenges such as using artificial intelligence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two former residents of DuBois, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and mail theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former bank employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester in connection with embezzling money from client accounts held by the bank by which she was employed.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) announced the Full Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Examining How Federal Infrastructure Policy Could Help Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change." The hearing will examine the role the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal grazing fee for 2019 will drop to $1.35 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.35 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the USDA Forest Service. This represents a decrease from the 2018 Federal grazing fee of $1.41 per AUM.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Mississippi Woman Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion Charges for Role in $200 Million Compounding Pharmacy Scheme.
