News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County woman was sentenced today for a federal drug charge. Bree Eberbaugh, 28, of Charleston, pled guilty on March 1, 2019, to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANDREW ANDERSON, age 38, a resident of LaPlace, Louisiana, was charged in a three-count indictment by a federal grand jury on May 31, 2019. In count one, ANDERSON is charged with possession with the intent to distribute a quantity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, 59, of Henderson to 57 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised released. Judge Dever also ordered that WILLIAMS’s one-third interest in his residence be forfeited to the federal government.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On July 1, the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Clark County, Mt. Charleston Fire Protection District, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service are implementing fire restrictions in Southern Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 3151, the Taxpayer First Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - HARRIS HENDERSON, age 43, a resident of Schreiver, Louisiana, was charged July 14, 2019, in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury with distributing five grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Brecksville, Ohio - Members of the public and business community are invited to attend an open house to discuss a Commercial Services Strategy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park on Monday, July 15, 2019, from 6 - 8 p.m., at Happy Days Lodge, 500 W Streetsboro Road, Peninsula, OH 44264. Presentations will be at 6:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Winston-Salem, North Carolina, resident was sentenced to 21 months in prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court for trafficking narcotics. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill sentenced STEVEN McCOY, also known as “S Dot," 26, of Hamden, to 60 months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: In the interest of justice, and to bring finality to the lengthy and complex litigation involving the prosecution of certain El Paso Independent School District administrators and employees, the remaining two defendants awaiting trial under cause number EP16cr693-James Anderson and John Tanner-have entered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A man who fled Rwanda near the end of the 1994 genocide was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for immigration fraud and perjury in connection with his application for immigration benefits in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced that the United States and Mexico have reached an agreement on migration, resulting in the suspension of planned tariffs that were set to take effect next week...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - Birney resident Randy Lee Littlebird admitted today to murdering a woman by strangling her with a rope in their residence on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation last year, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: Starting Aug. 1, Everglades National Park will require all marine boaters to have completed the park’s Boater Education Program. Over 4,000 boaters have already completed the free online course, which became available in late 2018. The purpose of the program is to educate boaters to the unique features and challenges of the park’s marine waters in order to promote boater safety, protect park resources and enhance visitor enjoyment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Phillip Yoder, age 41, of Ligonier, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio on his guilty pleas to wire fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud and bankruptcy fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By State Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the reported meeting between President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the G20 Summit...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the following statement after it was reported that Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) proposed a tax extender package that contains numerous unrelated provisions to raise taxes that would hurt the American economy and kill American jobs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, - Peter J. Carney, 57, of Stewartstown, and Dustin Grant, 34, of Colebrook, pleaded guilty in federal court to distribution of suboxone, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Larned man was sentenced today to 27 months in federal prison for causing a series of denial of service attacks on a Kansas internet service provider, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Juan Alberto Chavez, age 43, of San Manuel, Arizona, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Cocaine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
