News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation in New England, today...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s EL Dorado Task Force, a 13-count financial fraud indictment was unsealed Monday charging four, all of whom are affiliated with Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Huawei), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924 and Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew C. Brehm (619) 546-8983.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Cory Dean Carpenter, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to maintaining a house for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA- Following a six-day trial, Dr. Felix Brizuela, Jr., of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, was found guilty on Jan. 14, 2018 of 15 counts of “Distribution of Controlled Substances Outside the Bounds of Professional Medical Practice," United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Robert Gay, 35, of Gardiner, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: 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 years 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: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Paul Biddle, 54, of Amherst, NY, 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Huawei Device USA Inc. and Huawei’s Iranian Subsidiary Skycom Also Named Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - On Jan. 11, 2019, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth M. Kovachevich sentenced Eutiquio Mendoza-Nandho (46, Mexico) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiring to bring and bringing illegal aliens into the United States. Mendoza-Nandho had pleaded guilty on Aug. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: A Lorain man was sentenced to life in prison for selling fentanyl that killed a 23-year-old Lorain man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - California resident Raymond M. Fitch was sentenced to seven years in federal prison and to five years of supervised release on January 25 for conviction in a methamphetamine case in which the drug was mailed to Sidney from California, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Mesa Verde National Park plan to reopen on Monday, February 4, 2019 at 8:00 a.m. During the shutdown, several large rock falls occurred on the main park road between mile markers 2 and 3, causing damage to the road and guardrail. Repairing the...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Capulin Volcano National Monument will begin adjusted operations on Jan. 28, 2019. Due to a shortage in staffing, operating hours will be 8:30am-4:30pm Thursdays-Mondays. The monument will be closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays until positions can be refilled. Currently staff is working diligently to safely clean sidewalks and roads of ice, snow, and rock that accumulated during the 5-week federal government shutdown.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: Crescent City, Calif. - With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Redwood National Park will resume regular operations. Staff are working to ensure that park facilities that have been closed since December are ready to safely reopen to the public as quickly as possible. Day use and outdoor...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will resume regular operations on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. All areas of the parks that are typically open this time of year, continue to be open. Employees have started to come back to work this weekend.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Lassen Volcanic National Park will resume regular operations on Jan. 27, 2019. Please visit www.nps.gov/lavo for updated information about the park.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: Haleakala National Park resumes regular operations after the enactment of a continuing resolution. Visitor Centers in the Summit District and the Kipahulu District are open 8:00 am to 4:00 pm daily. The Pools of ‘Oheʻo in the Kīpahulu District are open and are monitored for possible flash floods. The...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: BRONX, NY- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2019
News Release: With the enactment of the continuing resolution, staff at Gettysburg National Military Park resumed regular operations on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. Eisenhower National Historic Site also resumed operations. During January and February, the Eisenhower grounds are open daily with limited onsite parking...
