News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man pled guilty today to distribution of methamphetamine and felon in possession of firearms charges announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brandon Starr Clemons, 33, entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham today announced that Nora R. Dannehy has returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and will serve as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Twenty-one high-performance vehicles will be sold in an online auction that resulted from one of the largest federal marijuana prosecutions in Tulsa, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Former Stockton Couple Convicted of Human Trafficking Charges Related to Forced Labor of Foreign Nationals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden joined a group of bipartisan colleagues to introduce legislation that would renew and expand funding for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs).

By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX); Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA); and Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-TX) today made the following joint statement...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of McKeesport, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Under the Consent Decree, New York City Will Pay the United States a $1 Million Civil Penalty for Past Violations of Federal Requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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 Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Roswell, NM -Beginning the week of March 17, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will begin seeking opportunities to conduct the 200-acre Nester Ball Prescribed Fire in Chaves County, approximately 50 miles north of Roswell. Implementation will depend upon favorable weather conditions and is anticipated...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from Bank Robbery at Bank of the West in Oklahoma City.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Investors Cheated Out of $3 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced Thursday, March 14, 2019 the guilty plea of CHRISTELLE SCHMIDT, age 65 of Thibodeaux, Louisiana to one count of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(b), Bank larceny. The indictment returned in November of 2018 alleged that SCHMIDT stole more than $550,000 from a local architectural firm while employed as a bookkeeper there.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Steven White was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm after several prior felony convictions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lawn Doctor of Stafford-Culpepper, doing business as Beck I, LLC, has agreed to settle claims that the business and its owners violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) by suspending and terminating a U.S. Army Reserve soldier following his return from active duty military service.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Bradley Kraemer, 34, White Bear Lake, Minnesota, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on March 14, 2019, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 78 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Steven White was sentenced to 180 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm after several prior felony convictions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Kīlauea Visitor Center auditorium will close Thurs., March 21 and Fri., March 22 for electrical rewiring in advance of a planned upgrade slated for April 8-15.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Terrel Edward Elliott, Jr., age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty late on March 15, 2019, to unlicensed dealing in firearms and to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. According to his plea agreement, Elliott was dealing in firearms less than two months after his release from prison and on a first-degree assault conviction in the Circuit Court of Maryland for Howard County.