News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Lorenzo Dyrell Hickman, 32, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to 270 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Geo Geovanni (50, Moultrie, GA) to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $56,984.34, the proceeds of the fraud scheme. A federal jury found Geovanni guilty on Nov. 29, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: This summer, Joshua Tree National Park will sponsor a five week, Youth Conservation Corps program. Youths between the ages of 15 and 18 are encouraged to apply. To be eligible, applicants may not reach their 19th birthday during the program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will incrementally increase Keswick Dam releases into the Sacramento River from 30,000 cubic feet per second at 7 a.m. to 40,000 cfs by 11 a.m. on March 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - In remarks today in Washington, DC, Katharine Sullivan, the Acting Director of the Justice Department’s Office of Violence Against Women, singled out the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma for its success in prosecuting firearms cases involving domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Defendant sentenced for failing to appear at 1997 sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Seventeen additional defendants indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges as part of Operation Vanilla Gorilla have pled guilty in federal court, bringing to 33 the total number of guilty pleas only months after charges were filed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Dwayne G. Perkins, age 38, of Albany, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute heroin, cocaine and more than 28 grams of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Seventeen additional defendants indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges as part of Operation Vanilla Gorilla have pled guilty in federal court, bringing to 33 the total number of guilty pleas only months after charges were filed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: An Akron man pleaded guilty to launching denial of service attacks that shut down web sites for the city of Akron and the Akron Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Thomas Lawton Evans, Jr., 38, of Boiling Springs, South Carolina, was sentenced to three consecutive life terms in federal prison after pleading guilty to Kidnapping Involving a Person Under the Age of 18, Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lexington man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with his role in a long-running interstate prostitution ring.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's first tribal programs public witness hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An Oklahoma man was sentenced in federal court today for the armed robbery of a hotel in Columbia, Mo., on May 31, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC -Below is Subcommittee Chairman Harley Rouda’s opening statement for today’s Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “Examining PFAS Chemicals and their Risks."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: FRIDAY HARBOR, WA - San Juan Island National Historical Park today announced the availability of the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the 2018 Replace American Camp Temporary Visitor Center Environmental Assessment (EA). The FONSI, which was signed by National Park Service Pacific West Regional Director Stan Austin, identifies the selected alternative and is the decision making document for the project.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: MILLS, Wyoming -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills, Wyoming, has prepared the March snowmelt runoff forecasts and operating plans for the North Platte River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that two Eagle Butte, South Dakota, men convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Aiding and Abetting, have been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: ExxonMobil to Pay Civil Penalty and Take Remedial Measures to Resolve Clean Air Act Violations Stemming from Deadly Fire at Texas Refinery.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released their 2019 High Risk List, an inventory of government operations vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. GAO updates the High Risk List every two years at the beginning of a new Congress to focus national attention on these critical areas.
