News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - A Logan man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joshua Stephen Nida, 35, pled guilty to being in possession of a stolen firearm. The investigation was conducted by the West Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) sent a letter to Chair Raúl Grijalva outlining concerns over the Majority’s failure to address issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction and refusal to consider economic impacts of proposed legislation. Ranking Republican Bishop also urged the Democrats to return to the transparent practice of providing public hearing memoranda in compliance with Committee rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Eddie James Rhodes, 62, of Stone County, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent-in-Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: DOJ and Chateau Ste. Michelle Settle Americans with Disabilities Act Complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey West, 42, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute heroin, was sentenced to serve 188 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Feliciano Pelagio Mariluz-Tafur, a citizen of Peru, and Jose Cubas-Zavala, a citizen of Hondura, admitted to being in the country illegally and were sentenced today, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michelle Bryant, age 47, of Mission Viejo, California, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to three counts of Intentionally Conveying False and Misleading Information. The information concerned...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: The former Allen County Sheriff pleaded guilty to for asking for and taking bribes from people arrested in prostitution stings, suspected gamblers and others.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: The opioid crisis has devastated communities across America. In 2017, nearly 50,000 Americans died from opioid-related overdoses. At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), we’re working with our interagency and international partners to stop the flow of illicit opioids across our borders and make...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer who was a lieutenant assigned to investigate wrongdoing by inmates and officers at the Federal Correctional Complex, Victorville, has been arrested on federal charges alleging he took thousands of dollars in cash bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband into the prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. - The U.S. Geological Survey reported that an earthquake occurred at 10:22 a.m. MST, on Monday, March 4, 2019, near Reclamation’s Paradox Valley Salinity Control Facility near Bedrock, Colorado. Reclamation maintains a comprehensive network of seismic monitoring instruments in the area, which indicated a preliminary magnitude 4.1 for this earthquake. The quake was felt by employees at the Reclamation facility and residents in surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Law enforcement authorities associated with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force on Sunday arrested a Long Beach man on federal charges stemming from an explosion last year that destroyed a day spa in Aliso Viejo, killed the man’s former girlfriend, and caused serious injuries to two spa clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN L. MURRAY, age 65, was charged Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019 in a one-count indictment for bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A prior sex offender in Fulton, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today after his mother and grandmother transported a 13-year-old child victim from Alabama to engage in illegal sexual activity with him.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman caught selling heroin in April of last year was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Shirley Lacieann Burlile, 27, previously pled guilty to distributing heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the FBI Drug Task Force and the Cabell County Sheriff’s Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Fred Hood, age 56, appeared today in court on a charge that he threatened to kill employees and residents of a Massachusetts veterans services program.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: As promotional and outreach activities are ramping up across the nation ahead of the 2020 Census - from establishing local and state complete count committees, to diverse partners coming together to reduce the undercount of children and other hard to count populations - today the U.S. Census Bureau announced its long-planned communications campaign platform: “Shape your future. START HERE.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: On March 1, 2019, two individuals, including a City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department employee, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2019
News Release: Today, the Chairmen of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House Foreign Affairs Committee and House Committee on Oversight and Reform wrote to Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to request documents from and interviews with personnel...
