News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ was sentenced today one year and one day in prison for his involvement in an insider trading scheme based on material, nonpublic information misappropriated from an investment bank by Daniel...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office released a Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and Preliminary Environmental Assessment to analyze 17 proposed Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in San Miguel, San Juan, Dolores, Montezuma, and Montrose...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Arturo Aispuro, 37, of Salem, Oregon, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison and 5 years’ of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. He also received a concurrent sentence of 60 months for abusing hundreds of roosters by raising and training them to participate in cockfights.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 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 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Marvin Dennis was convicted of committing heroin and crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) caught two loaded handguns at the Terminal C checkpoint just hours apart on Monday, Feb. 18, resulting in two arrests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Gary Velletto was a manager of largescale, multi-state marijuana and money laundering operations.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 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 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: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Homer Lee Basquez, age 38, of El Reno, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm, 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: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pembroke Pines, Florida, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of mail, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Andrew C. Poarch, age 31, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pled guilty Feb. 13, 2019 in front of U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to filing a false federal income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne. Poarch was charged by Information on Dec. 20, 2018 and is scheduled to be sentenced on May 22, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: Jason Taylor, Regional Chief of Natural Resources for the National Park Service (NPS), Alaska Region, has been selected as Superintendent for Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, in Skagway, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 19, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: A Euclid woman was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for a scheme in which she fraudulently enrolled students into Ohio community colleges to defraud the U.S. Department of Education out of $1.8 million.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: DENVER, Colo. - An MS-13 gang member from El Salvador, wanted in his home country for aggravated extortion, was removed to El Salvador Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man, formerly residing in Massachusetts, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Marvin Dennis was convicted of committing heroin and crack cocaine trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Illegal alien and felon Shandy Salgado-Almendaris, 39, of Mexico, pleaded guilty today before Chief Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. to one count of re-entry of a removed alien and one count of felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Pine Nut Mountains Wild Horse Gather will be suspended today due to weather. The gather may be resumed later in 2019 sometime after foaling season. The gather ran from February 7 through February 19. The BLM gathered and removed 340 excess wild horses from public and private lands in and outside the Pine Nut Mountains Herd Management Area in western Nevada.
