News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: “The Committee on Oversight and Reform is investigating the decision to move the only polling site in Dodge City, Kansas-the population of which is 60 percent Latino-outside the city prior to the 2018 election," the Chairmen wrote in their letter to the Kansas Secretary of State. “. that the decision to move the polling site last year may have impacted the ability of Dodge City residents to vote in the 2018 election."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jacob Wright, of West Union, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A Lorain man was indicted on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gary Frank, age 48, of Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and money laundering, stemming from a massive fraudulent loan scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDRA GRAVES, age 31, pled guilty yesterday to a two-count bill of information charging her with theft of government funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 and identity theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A Berea man was indicted in federal court after he allegedly contacted several children between the ages of 12 and 15 and coerced them into sending him sexually explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gary Frank, age 48, of Philadelphia and Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and money laundering, stemming from a massive fraudulent loan scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Admits Falsifying Financial Statements - Used Investor Money for Own Expenses.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: HONOLULU - The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded the contract for repair of the anchoring system for the USS Arizona Memorial dock. Repairs are projected to be complete by fall and in time for the next December 7 remembrance, provided no issues arise during the construction period.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In recognition of the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Salt Lake Field Office is offering public automobile tours along the Transcontinental Railroad Grade Backcountry Byway, north of the Great Salt Lake, in Box Elder County. Tours will be held on Saturday, April 20, and Saturday, May 4, from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, March 28, 2019 - Low-income Nebraskans recovering from recent flooding could be eligible for food benefits through the Disaster SNAP (D-SNAP) program approved today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The department also approved the state’s request for temporary flexibility in meeting school lunch meal pattern requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: New Albany - Josh J. Minkler, the United States Attorney, announced today that Ramon Sera-Mastrapa, 40, a Cuban national living in Florida, has been sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment in connection with his role in a massive, years-long cargo theft conspiracy that spanned more than half of the continental United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - As part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich hosted a statewide gang and violent crime prevention summit in Las Vegas today for local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, victims services, and community partners to discuss gang and youth violence prevention.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Isle Royale National Park is proud to announce the summer 2019 artists-in-residence. This year’s selections include Alex Braidwood (Ames, IA, Sound Ecology), Nathan Clark, (Vashon, WA, Fiber & Mixed Media) and Cecil Howell (Brooklyn, NY, Collage), along with four alternates, Harlan Butt...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Lone Arrow Hastings, 29, of Supai Village, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to eight months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Hastings had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated 13 Colorado counties as primary natural disaster areas. Producers in Chaffee, Crowley, Custer, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Lake, Las Animas, Lincoln, Otero, Park and Pueblo counties who suffered losses caused by recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE, IN -Quran Waterford, 34, of Bloomington, Indiana, Gary McCaleb, 29, of Harvey, Illinois, and Mandell Strawter, 27, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, were charged in a seven count Indictment returned by the Grand Jury arising out of the armed robberies of B&H Firearms and a T-Mobile Store in Fort Wayne, Indiana on December 5 and 13, 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch, II.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison After Second Trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga: A California man who supplied large amounts of marijuana for a drug trafficking operation across the country has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Kansas men were charged today with a pair of bank robberies in which shots were fired and robbers wore Black Panther and Venom masks, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
