News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, Dontarius Marquis Hall, 39, of Gaston County, N.C., was sentenced to 27 years in prison for drug trafficking conspiracy, distribution and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who previously pled guilty to drug and gun charges was sentenced today to 131 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jonathan Forest Johnson, 31, entered guilty pleas to distribution of methamphetamine and possession of firearms in...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - With the enactment of the continuing resolution, Fort Pulaski National Monument has resumed regular operations and is open to the public. While staff continue to get park operations caught up, some ranger programs may not resume until early next week. For more information, please visit the park website at www.nps.gov/FortPulaski or call (912) 786-5787.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Keystone, S.D. - With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Mount Rushmore National Memorial have resumed normal operations as of Monday Jan. 28, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BOISE - David Brannum, 55, now of Washougal, Washington, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, in United States District Court to preparing false federal income tax returns for clients of his business, “Dave’s Tax Service," U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Sentencing is set for April 17, 2019, before U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the Federal Courthouse in Boise.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Lost Creek Uranium In-Situ Recovery Project Modifications in Sweetwater County, Wyo. The facility is located approximately 38 miles northwest of Rawlins and 15 miles southwest of Bairoil, Wyo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Evelyn Katrina Taylor-Parks has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to accept bribe payments while she served as the City of Atlanta’s Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - On Jan. 11, 2019, United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced that a federal jury had found Mirza Afzal Hussain (55, Brandon) guilty of coercion and enticement of a minor, document fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Hussain faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - David Anthony Richardson, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on Jan. 23, 2019 on drug and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that Dr. Paul Biddle, 54, of Amherst, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to identity theft and possession of unlawful hydromorphone HCL. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
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.
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: Tampa, Florida - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez, along with Special Agent in Charge Eric Sporre, FBI-Tampa Division, and Special Agent in Charge Mary Hammond, IRS-Criminal Investigation, today announced the seizure of the xDedic Marketplace, a website that operated for years and was used to sell access...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - On January 4, 2019, United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the return of an indictment charging Catiel Marquez Gonzalez (21) and Yeran Antigua Martinez (37), citizens of Cuba, with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The indictment also charges Marquez Gonzalez with three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Defendant Arrested Minutes After the Crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument, and Fort Point National Historic Site has resumed regularly scheduled operations. All areas of these parks are open for regular operations. Please visit nps.gov/goga, nps.gov/muwo, and nps.gov/fopo for normal hours of operation. In the Marin Headlands, the traffic plan for all roads has returned to two-way operation.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Senior Republican of the Committee on Education and Labor, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), have submitted public comments to Chairman John Ring of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during the Board’s open comment period for current rulemaking proceedings on the standard ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif.- The Bureau of Reclamation is completing its construction improvements at Folsom Reservoir’s Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam and Dikes 1, 4, 5 and 6 in the Granite Bay and Folsom Recreation areas beginning January 2019 and ending around July 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Paul Glen Hamilton, Jr., of Bowie, Maryland and Melbourne, Florida, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on Jan. 23, 2019 on a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today addressed 700 school board members from across the country at the National School Boards Association Advocacy Institute.
