News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Mark W. Sweeney, age 60, of Syracuse, appeared today in U.S. District Court on charges that he threated to kill employees of the Syracuse Veterans Affairs Hospital, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Chief Thomas Martin, Department of Veterans Affairs Police, Syracuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Attempted to Intimidate a Witness During the Trial and Threatened a Deputy U.S. Marshal.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jose Navarro Rios, 45, a Mexican national residing in Lancaster Ky., was sentenced today, to 235 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for distributing methamphetamine and illegally re-entering the United States after having previously been deported. Judge Reeves also ordered Rios to pay a $4,000 fine and ordered five years of supervised release. Rios will be deported following service of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eric Rory, 40, of Suitland, Md., was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for illegally possessing and selling firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Phyllis Doty, a former Superintendent of Logan County Schools, was sentenced to 42 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. She was also ordered to pay the full amount of restitution in the amount of $25,083.10. Doty, 65...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that five previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Feb. 27, 2019, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Bradford, Columbia, Cumberland, Luzerne, and York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for a federal firearms crime, announced United States Attorney Michael B. Stuart. Michael Matthew Phillips, age 31, was convicted of possessing a firearm by a prohibited person in September of last year following a two-day jury trial. Senior District Court Judge David A. Faber presided over the trial and sentencing hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Discover more about Civil War era medicine with Dr. Bob Mallin at 7:00 p.m. Friday, March 22nd at the Vista Grande Public Library. A Vietnam veteran, historian, and surgeon, Dr. Mallin offers a rare opportunity to see and learn more about the medical and surgical instruments that were used to treat battle wounds in the field.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for planning to construct and use a pressure cooker bomb in New York on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar demanding evidence and justifications for the Trump Administration’s final Title X gag rule, which threatens the program’s provider network and its patients’ access to care. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to almost three years in prison for charges of unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Grand Teton National Park conducted a search and rescue operation Thursday evening, Feb. 28, into early morning, Friday, March 1, in Granite Canyon north of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Two individuals were rescued with no reported injuries. The search and rescue was in cooperation with Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and Teton County Search and Rescue.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Aiding and Abetting.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of seven members and ten alternates to serve on the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Gabino Peralta-Saucedo (43, Bradenton) to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and a quantity of heroin. Peralta-Saucedo had pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jose Navarro Rios, 45, a Mexican national residing in Lancaster Ky., was sentenced today, to 235 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for distributing methamphetamine and illegally re-entering the United States after having previously been deported. Judge Reeves also ordered Rios to pay a $4,000 fine and ordered five years of supervised release. Rios will be deported following service of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Philadelphia Business Man Sentenced to More Than 10 Years in Prison for Bribing the Former Sheriff of Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a Fairbanks man has been sentenced to federal prison for willfully misapplying over $300,000 from an organization receiving federal funds, among other offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The mother of an MCI-Cedar Junction inmate pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “U.S. Maritime and Shipbuilding Industries: ...
