News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cory Newland, 35, and Joshua Titus, 30, officers with the Elkhart, Indiana, Police Department, were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Hammond for using excessive force against an arrestee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A United States citizen who resided in the Republic of Uganda pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to manufacture/pass/transfer/sell counterfeit currency, conspiracy to launder money, and committing counterfeiting acts outside the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service announced today it intends to adopt the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s Final Environmental Impact Statement for the widening of Interstate 26 in Buncombe and Henderson County, North Carolina. The National Park Service is a cooperating agency for the project, and has been involved in the project planning, preparation, and analysis that are documented in the Final Environmental Impact Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Preyed on Vulnerable Victim, Attempted to Force Her to Lie to Law Enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Paul Silvas, 51, resident of Nampa, Idaho, has been charged in a four-count indictment with multiple felony Lacey Act violations.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
Release: LINTHICUM, MD - A Texas man was arrested on Wednesday, March 20, at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after Transportation Security Administration officers caught him with a loaded handgun at the checkpoint at Terminal B. It marked the 10th handgun caught by TSA so far this year, nearly half of the number stopped during all 12 months of 2018 when TSA officers caught 22 firearms at the airport checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Erika Shanta Kelly, 42, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to serve 18 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations, New Orleans Division. Kelly was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 19 indictments charging 21 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that LOUIS POCOGRANO, 58, of Guilford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shauniqua Rodriguez, 40, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the health and safety studies it used to conduct its risk evaluation of Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) - studies the Agency had previously refused to make public after wrongly claiming that they constituted “Confidential Business Information":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Victim Shot in Broad Daylight; Second Victim Also Struck by Gunfire.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
Release: BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. - A Harrison County, WV, woman was stopped on Tuesday, March 19 with a loaded gun at North Central West Virginia Airport (CKB) in Bridgeport, WV, after Transportation Security Administration officers who were working at the airport checkpoint detected the gun in her carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHAN WOOD, 26, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possessing with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that dairy producers who elected to participate in the Livestock Gross Margin for Dairy Cattle Program (LGM-Dairy) now have the opportunity to participate in the Margin Protection Program for Dairy (MPP-Dairy) for 2018 coverage. Sign-up will take place March 25 through May 10, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to an IRS announcement that taxpayers who paid at least 80 percent of their estimated taxes would not face penalties...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Peggy Louise Farrington and Jacqueline Lee Weigland, both of Galivants Ferry, South Carolina, appeared in federal court this week on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dominique McDowell, 27, of Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of butyryl fentanyl and U-47700, was sentenced to serve 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding to establish a new testing program for marine energy technologies. The U.S. Testing Expertise and Access for Marine Energy Research (TEAMER) Program will bring together capabilities from universities and the national laboratory system to provide marine energy developers ready-access to unique, world-class testing facilities and expertise.
