News from March 2019
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on American citizen Paul Whelan’s continued detention and Russia’s denial of his right to consular access and support...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: David W. Archey Named Special Agent in Charge of the Richmond Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: EL AISSAMI and SAMARK JOSE LOPEZ BELLO Violated U.S. Sanctions In Connection With Their Use of Private Jets, Including Feb. 23, 2019 Return Flight by EL AISSAMI from Russia to Venezuela.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD- Blake Ruggiero, 44, of Salem, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for tax evasion, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) -The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns in Musselshell and Yellowstone counties this spring when fuel and weather conditions permit safe operations. Three project areas will be treated.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Victor M. Diaz, age 29, of Johnstown, New York, was arrested yesterday for possessing and intending to distribute a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Eli Edwin Moran, a 21 year old resident of Daphne, Alabama was sentenced to “time served" for possession of a Taurus pistol after being convicted Domestic Violence 3rd Degree.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Big Thicket National Preserve saw record visitation in 2018, recording 221,514 visits, a 23% increase over the previous year. The preserve saw a notable increases in visitation to day-use areas and other access points along the Neches River, while an extremely wet 2018 led to a decrease in backcountry...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was charged in federal court in Springfield yesterday with failing to register as a sex offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury indicted a Birmingham man for a November 5, 2018 carjacking announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Travis L. McCryndle, a 33 year old resident of Bay Minette, Alabama was sentenced to 12 months and a day for possession of a Ruger.22, semi-automatic rifle after being convicted of Burglary 2nd Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing firearms stolen overnight from parked vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Simeon C. Taylor, a 27 year old resident of Citronelle, Alabama was sentenced to 60 months incarceration for conspiring to receive, possess and steal firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Three defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a bribery scheme uncovered by an FBI investigation at Idaho Department of Correction’s (“IDOC") request to address concerns of corruption among IDOC correction officers, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. On March 7, 2019, Senior U.S.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Georgia man was sentenced yesterday in federal district court in Boston for his role in a bogus advance fee Jamaican lottery scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Larry Casper (619) 546-6734.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - (Demócrata por Arizona) El Presidente del Comité de Recursos Naturales, Raúl M. Grijalva, convida a los residentes de la isla a participar en una sesión de audiencia pública el dia 15 de marzo en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Las puertas abren a las 4:45 PM hora local. La audiencia se llevará a cabo en el Coliseo Roberto Clemente en la Av. Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: A former U.S. Border Patrol Agent (BPA) was sentenced to 112 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for accepting bribes in return for helping to smuggle illegal drugs into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that John F. Kelekci, 35, of Pittsfield, N.H., was sentenced in federal court to serve 130 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2019
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Stillwater Field Office has approved the Sand Mountain Recreation Area [SMRA] Campground Improvement and Maintenance project.