News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: SAINT GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Reclamation and state of Utah will join in a signing ceremony to formalize an agreement for the Green River Water Rights Exchange contract. This agreement exchanges the state’s assigned Green River water right for use of Colorado River Storage Project water from Flaming...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was sentenced on Friday, March 15, 2019, in federal court in Boston for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 18, 2020, United States Attorney David L. Anderson issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Cari L. Madson of Johnston City, Illinois, has been charged in a one-count indictment with conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. The federal indictment alleges that the offense occurred between February 2018 and January 2019, in Williamson and Jefferson Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Akron, Ohio, man admitted to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Rodney Lammar Hargrove, age 48, pled guilty today before United States District Judge David E.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEONID POLLAK, also known as “Lenny," 58, of Greenwich, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to offenses related to an investment fraud scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $91 million to build or improve community facilities (PDF, 108 KB) and essential services for nearly 300,000 rural residents in 12 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man and a Bergen County, New Jersey, man have been arraigned for their respective roles in a reverse mortgage scheme that took advantage of several elderly homeowners, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Kenneth Christian Javi Garcia (24, Fort Myers) to six years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. The court also ordered Javi Garcia to forfeit his computer, which was used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced Kenneth Christian Javi Garcia (24, Fort Myers) to six years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. The court also ordered Javi Garcia to forfeit his computer, which was used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Miguel Angel Cruz-Polanco, a confirmed MS-13 gang member and a citizen of El Salvador, was sentenced today to 137 months incarceration for his involvement with a multi-state drug trafficking operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Rudolph Carryl, 67, formerly of Oyster Bay, N.Y., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler late Friday, March 15, 2019, and pleaded guilty to securities fraud, for defrauding retired victims of more than $400,000. Carryl was arrested on Aug. 29, 2018, at a halfway house in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he was serving time for federal wire fraud charges related to a separate investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Friday, March 15, 2019, David Gutman, age 55, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to accept and sell stolen goods from the Chesapeake Pawn Brokers, in Edgewood, Maryland. Two co-defendants, Marina Gelfen, age 55 of Reisterstown...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sisseton, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and for abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Friday, March 15, 2019, a federal jury found Dat Quoc Do, 28, of Madras, Oregon, guilty of two counts of unlawful use of a weapon for discharging a firearm during a road rage altercation on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in September 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
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 the White House proposal to reform the Higher Education Act. Senator Murray is currently working with Chairman Alexander on a comprehensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Carl A. Stadelbacher of Cobden, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine and one count of unlawful possession of pseudoephedrine knowing that it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today. The federal indictment alleges that the offenses occurred between 2016 and February 2019, in Union and Jackson Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced a record-breaking number of federal gun prosecutions in 2018 as part of on-going Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) efforts to reduce violent crime in Huntington. In early 2018, soon after taking office, Stuart joined forces with the Huntington ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Two more doctors in northeastern Oklahoma have entered into settlement agreements with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, LLC, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. These civil settlements resulted from an investigation into numerous health care providers writing prescriptions for pain creams compounded and sold by OK Compounding in return for payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - In partnership with families who have lost loved ones to drug overdose, United States Attorney Mike Stuart is launching a new program called United States Attorney’s Heroin(e) Education Action Team or USA HEAT. More information about USA HEAT can be found in the attached brochure.
