News from January 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument will resume regular operations on Monday, Jan. 29, 2019. Please visit www.nps.gov/GLCA on Monday for updated information about the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Jan. 23, 2019, United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Quran Smallwood, age 24, of York, Pennsylvania to 72 months’ imprisonment for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: The Calumet Visitor Center at Keweenaw National Historical Park will resume winter hours of operation on Friday and Saturday this week. The facility is open from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm every Friday and Saturday through late May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston Police Officer was sentenced today in federal court in Boston with illegally purchasing two firearms on behalf of acquaintances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Quincy man, who had been a fugitive for more than 20 years prior to his arrest in April 2017, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with a $1.9 million real estate investment fraud scheme in Quincy.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on today’s announcement of United States sanctions against Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A....
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jordan Richard, 25, of New Vineyard, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 160 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and oxycodone and discharging a firearm in relation to that conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Todd A. Wickerham Named Special Agent in Charge of the Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROCCO FAZZOLARI, who previously served as the president of a labor union (the “Union") and a trustee of the Union’s employee welfare benefit plan (the “Plan"), was sentenced today to 37 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Huawei Device USA Inc. and Huawei’s Iranian Subsidiary Skycom Also Named Defendants | Other Charges Include Money Laundering, Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Obstruction of Justice and Sanctions Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RASCELL LEGGETT, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Douglas DeHaven, age 35, of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, pleaded guilty on Jan. 11, 2019, before Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to making false statements in connection with the purchases of multiple firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - An Arizona woman who admitted driving 10 pounds of methamphetamine to Billings to make money was sentenced on January 25 to five years in prison and five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former Louisville Metro Police officer Brandon Wood has been charged in a felony Information and pleaded guilty to attempted enticement, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Chinese Telecommunications Device Manufacturer and its U.S. Affiliate Indicted for Theft of Trade Secrets, Wire Fraud, and Obstruction Of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jamiell Sims, age 30, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Jan. 17, 2019, to 151 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a conspiracy that forced or coerced women to engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania, and for distributing heroin on four separate occasions in Monroe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Carlee Cuppett, of Kingwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to two years probation for a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A New York man who illegally possessed firearms in Cross Lanes in 2017 was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Andre Durrell Watson, 33, previously pled guilty to prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - On Jan. 24, 2019, U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. sentenced Ronald Johnson (32, Jacksonville) to life in federal prison for his actions leading to the overdose death of a 23-year old woman. On October 4, 2018, a federal jury found Johnson guilty of distributing a substance...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of a 3-week continuing resolution, National Park Service (NPS) areas in Alaska resumed regular operations on Monday, Jan. 28, 2019.
