News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Newport Beach man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for breaking into the Santa Ana Zoo after hours and stealing North America’s oldest-living ring-tailed lemur in captivity in order to keep the endangered animal as a pet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Two men from Eastpointe were sentenced today for their role in the robbery of a pharmacy and related drug offenses, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathan Thomas, 43, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pueblo Pintado, N.M., was arraigned in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 16, 2019, on an indictment charging him with three counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact. Thomas was ordered detained pending trial during a detention hearing held this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 22-year-old resident of Corpus Christi has entered a guilty plea to robbery and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Three men from Northwest Ohio were indicted on drug conspiracy charges stemming from an investigation that resulted in the seizure of more than four pounds of cocaine, 20 firearms, three vehicles and more than $1.8 million in cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ernest Schaeffer, age 43, of Schuylkill Haven, was sentenced on July 2, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 15 years’ imprisonment followed by five years on supervised release for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement on President Trump’s speech promoting a clean and healthy environment for all Americans. The speech included content on the largest public lands legislation signed in a decade, S. 47, the Natural Resources Management Act, and actions by the Trump administration to improve natural resources management and to prevent devastating forest fires.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington - Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator Ken Isley today administered the oath of office to 12 U.S. Department of Agriculture employees who will serve American agriculture around the globe as members of the Foreign Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - Lawrence Jace Killsback, the former president of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe, today admitted to a travel fraud scheme in which he is accused of getting an estimated $20,000 in improper reimbursements, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Miguel Scott Arnold, age 32, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was convicted on June 21, 2019, of (1) conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; (2) sex trafficking by force, fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Clairton, PA, has pleaded guilty to a federal narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 47-year-old Mexican national who resided in McAllen and Houston has pleaded guilty on the day trial was set to begin, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced on June 18, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kent, Washington, man was charged in federal district court with 50 counts of Wire Fraud, nine counts of Money Laundering, and one count of Transportation of Stolen Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CEWELL SHARPE, also known as “C.C.," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an eight-count indictment charging ARASH VAKSHOURI, 40, of Las Vegas, Nevada, with submitting false documents to a government agency and aggravated identity theft.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: At the 2019 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and AgTech in Des Moines, Iowa, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Gordon Selling today reported on his group's use of steam-jet cooking and other processing methods to create a starch-vegetable-oil-based complex with a variety of useful...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Yusef Payne, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a stolen firearm. Payne admitted that he had at least two previous felony convictions and was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 3, 2019, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released a report today revealing the extent of the Trump administration’s environmental destruction. The report - which comes shortly after President Trump concluded a speech on his environmental record that avoided any mention of climate change - outlines the administration’s broad range of regulatory rollbacks, industry giveaways and funding cuts since taking office.
