News published on Federal Newswire in July 2019

News from July 2019


News Release: Defendant faces 25 year mandatory minimum for allegedly inducing a minor in the Philippines to engage in sexually explicit conduct using Facebook messenger.


News Release: BOSTON - A Southampton man was sentenced in federal court in Springfield today for child pornography offenses.


William D. Hyslop Assumes Office as The United States Attorney For The Eastern District Of Washington

News Release: Today, William D. Hyslop was sworn-in as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington. William Hyslop was nominated by President Donald Trump in May 2019 and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 27, 2019.


Little League Coach Sentenced for Interstate Travel to Engage in Sex with a Minor

News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Plainfield, Conn., little league coach arrested by Rhode Island State Police in January 2019 at a Warwick, R.I., hotel where he arranged to meet with a 14-year-old boy to engage in illicit sexual activity was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison.


News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.


News Release: Defendants Agree in Consent Decrees to Pay $1,247,700 in Clean-up Costs and Accept Responsibility.


Access to Sacramento River Rail Trail will be limited during repaving project

News Release: REDDING, Calif. - Access to parts of the Sacramento River Rail Trail near Redding will be limited from July 23 to 26, while a repaving project is underway.


Holland-Area Pair Sentenced In Connection With Theft Of Firearms From Graafschap Hardware Store

News Release: Matteo Marroquin and Lacy Zimmerman Each Sentenced to Ten Years for Stealing 22 Firearms from Federal Firearms Licensee.


News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicolai Varga, age 30, of Leland, North Carolina, who resided in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, at the time of his arrest, was sentenced on July 18, 2019, by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to three years’ imprisonment and to serve two years on supervised release for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.


BLM is accepting bids for commercial pine nut gathering permits

News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management’s Cedar City Field Office is accepting sealed bids for commercial pine nut gathering permits on nine identified units on the Indian Peaks and Mountain Home ranges in Beaver, Iron and Millard counties in Utah. Bids will be accepted until 2 p.m. August 5, 2019.


BLM Rio Puerco Field Office to change hours of operation

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Beginning Monday, July 22, 2019, the Bureau of Land Management Albuquerque District/Rio Puerco Field Office, located at 100 Sun Avenue NE, Suite 330, will change its hours of operation to Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.


Virginia Businessman Pleads Guilty to $5 Million Employment Tax Fraud and Illegal Firearm Possession

News Release: Virginia Businessman Pleads Guilty to $5 Million Employment Tax Fraud and Illegal Firearm Possession.


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Robert Pantori, Jr., 51, of Charlotte, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 108 months in prison on child pornography charges. Judge Conrad also ordered Pantori to serve twenty years of supervised release and to register as a sex offender following his release from prison.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Litchfield, Ill., man who has volunteered at local community and church youth programs, Cory C. Robinson, 24, has been ordered to remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service on charges of child sexual exploitation.


News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged a pharmaceutical distributor, two of its former officials and two pharmacists with conspiring to distribute controlled substances in an indictment returned here yesterday.


Murray Statement on Nomination of Eugene Scalia as Secretary of Labor “He Is Still the Wrong Choice”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on President Trump’s announcement that he is nominating Eugene Scalia to be the Secretary of Labor. Senator Murray opposed Scalia’s nomination to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor back in 2001, citing his anti-worker record.


Billings man sentenced to eight years for meth trafficking

News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Christopher Robert Hamilton, who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine in the community, was sentenced today to eight years in prison and five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.


Federal Conviction and Sentence Imposed for Repeat Drug Trafficking Offender

News Release: On July 17, 2019, Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced LISA MARIE BROWN, 50, of Rio Linda, California to seventy-eight months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of methamphetamine on May 8, 2019. She had previously...


News Release: CINCINNATI - A U.S. District Court jury here convicted Bruce Lee Felix, 52, of Batavia of using a gun to rob the Cheviot Savings Bank and an earlier robbery of the Cincinnatus Savings and Loan.