News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to multiple drug charges associated with his distribution of heroin and fentanyl, which led to the 2017 overdose death of a Melrose resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Erica Lucinda Taylor, of Piedmont, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to making a bomb threat at the Veterans Affairs Clinic in Mount Vernon, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today announced an extensive effort to map and further disrupt, through victim notifications, the Joanap botnet - a global network of numerous infected computers under the control of North Korean hackers that was used to facilitate other malicious cyber activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A felon who shot a person with a loaded stolen semi-automatic pistol was sentenced today to a total of 57 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Committee Republicans today submitted comments to the Department of Education in response to proposed regulations under Title IX to prevent sexual assaults and provide greater clarity to educational institutions on how to respond to allegations of sexual harassment. The letter, signed by Education and ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Fruita, CO - As of Jan. 30, 2019, Rim Rock Drive is open. Drivers are urged to use caution as there are icy patches in the shaded areas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Good morning. Welcome to the first meeting of the Committee on Appropriations for the 116th Congress. We meet today to consider and adopt our Committee rules and subcommittee jurisdictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to a masked and armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle sentenced DELTOINE SCOTT, age 25, of New Orleans, to 200 months in federal prison for his role in a 2015 armored car robbery and a 2017 attempted armored car robbery in which Loomis guard James McBride was killed, announced U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Dr. Manuel C. Barit, M.D., 71, of Raleigh County, and the only practicing physician at Mullens Family Clinic, pled guilty to executing a long-running healthcare fraud scheme. As part of the plea, Dr. Barit admitted that from about October...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The BLM has opened a 15-day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana and North Dakota. The scoping period runs through Feb. 15, 2019, and is intended to solicit public input on nominated lease parcels for the July lease sale, including the preliminary recommendations and stipulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Bullhead, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Damian A. Ouellette, 26, of Levant, Maine pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Multnomah County Sheriff Captain Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons has announced the following charges and pleas in cases, identified below, brought by the Guardians Project, a collaborative federal law enforcement initiative in the District of South Dakota designed to promote citizen disclosure of public corruption, fraud, and embezzlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Defendant, dubbed “THE BAD HAT BANDIT," robbed four banks in Greater Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang today sentenced Kyle Stephen Thompson, age 33, of Burtonsville, Maryland, to 420 years in federal prison concurrent to the state sentence to be imposed, and lifetime supervised release for his conviction on 18 counts of production of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A jury has convicted Oscar Lopez Acosta, 41, a citizen of Honduras, with being found in the United States, without authorization, after having twice been deported.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2019
News Release: The newest exhibit in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery features 30 detailed botanical illustrations of some of South Florida’s flowering plants and their pollinators. Pollinators, created by Tropical Botanic Artists, is now on display daily from 9am-5pm through May 5. On...
