News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s March 2019 Total Water Supply Available (TWSA) forecast for the Yakima basin indicates the water supply will fully satisfy senior water rights while the junior water rights will receive an estimated 90 percent of their entitlements this irrigation season.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Following reports that President Donald Trump directed then-National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn to use the Justice Department to block AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner, a move that could benefit Fox News and hurt CNN, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Antitrust ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Abducted Maryland Man and Held Him for Ransom.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on March 6, 2019, Larry Eugene Burns, age 30, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt for Bank Robbery by Intimidation. Burns was sentenced to 30 months in prison to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Clinton, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for a $4.7 million investment fraud scheme in which he defrauded 92 investors who believed they were purchasing cattle for resale at a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YESSENIA JIMENEZ, an officer in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), was found guilty today of conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine, possession of heroin and fentanyl, and using...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Harris, 31, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal mail before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A multi-agency operation in the Southern District of Georgia is receiving national recognition for dismantling a major drug trafficking organization whose methods included delivering contraband to prisons with drones and using funding from a lottery winner.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Douglas Shoemaker, regional Special Agent-in-Charge of the United States Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General (“USDOT-OIG"), Margaret Garnett, the Commissioner of the New York City Department of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Former Soldier, Joseph Hunter, Enlisted Co-Conspirators to Kill a Woman in the Philippines By Shooting Her Multiple Times in the Face.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton man today admitted his role in a violent drug trafficking conspiracy that allegedly distributed more than one kilogram of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Battle Mountain, NV - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register for the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Mount Hope Mine Project located roughly 23 miles northwest of the town of Eureka. This publication in the Federal Register starts a public comment period for the SEIS that will end on April 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging VICTOR NAHUM PEREZ-COLINDRES, age 40, of Honduras, with illegal reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. -A former resident of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney David J. Freed today announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history, surpassing last year’s nationwide sweep. The cases during this sweep involved more than 260 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than two million Americans, most of them elderly.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Evans City, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on one charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ARLINDA HENDRIX LEE, 47, of Windsor, North Carolina, to 12 months and 1 day in prison, followed by 1 year of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Daniel Vermeychuk, 66, of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, was charged in an indictment unsealed today with four counts of wire fraud, one count of social security fraud, and one count of theft from an employee benefit fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Feb. 27 charging an Alabama man, who was arrested earlier today, with production, distribution and receipt of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Armando Pablo Ochoa, 32, of Payson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to ten years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Ochoa had previously pleaded guilty to use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
