News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: The Great Task Youth Programs in Leadership and Service are for student or youth organizations, for grade levels 7 to 12, looking for intensive leadership and character-building experiences that go beyond traditional curriculum-based field trips. Applications will be accepted now through May for one or two day excursions, customized to match the mission and objectives of each youth organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Linda Liceth Prada-Ardilla, 29, a Colombian national residing in Asheville, N.C. to 135 months in prison and five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Deaunte D. Noyes, 29, of Shreveport, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. to three and a half years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Noyes was also sentenced to three years of supervised release to follow imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant fraudulently obtained over $50,000. BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - Kimberly Hall entered a guilty plea yesterday to the felony offense of fraudulently obtaining Social Security income benefits, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Hall, 43, of Bluefield, Mercer County, West Virginia faces up to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in an armed robbery that was part of a three-month-long spree of armed robberies at metropolitan area businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Nanowire gurus at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that, thanks to a special type of shell, produce five times higher light intensity than do comparable LEDs based on a simpler shell design.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Funds can be spent on surveillance systems, security systems, and security training.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Springfield, MO - U.S. Marshal Mark S. James, Western District of Missouri, wishes to warn the public about a telephone scam involving the U.S. Marshals Service name.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 33-year-old Missouri City man has been ordered to prison for sex trafficking of a minor female, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Eddie Charles Larue pleaded guilty Oct. 11, 2018, to one count of sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - MedStar Health, Inc. (MedStar) in Columbia, Md., MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, and MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, both in Baltimore, have agreed to pay the United States $35 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it paid kickbacks to MidAtlantic...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a wild horse trail challenge on Sunday, March 24. Youths representing seven different 4-H Clubs will compete with wild horse weanlings in a trail challenge that includes navigating an obstacle course and loading and unloading from a stock trailer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Caught in traffic stop with 1 ½ pounds of meth and three firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in an armed robbery that was part of a three-month-long spree of armed robberies at metropolitan area businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that a Bill of Information was filed Tuesday, March 19, 2019 against a Georgia optician charging him with identity theft in connection with the submission of fraudulent claims to health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Woman Wanted for Alleged Involvement in Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Anthony Eugene Wiggins, age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, for a string of robberies, including five bank robberies and five armed robberies at liquor stores, allegedly committed between Sept. 24, 2018 and Nov. 15, 2018, as well as an attempted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 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 indictments charging ROBERTO CARLOS CATALAN-BOCANEGRA, age 33, of Mexico, NESTOR ALONZO DE LOS SANTOS-HERNANDEZ, age 26, of Mexico, and FLORENCIO...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced Willie Iva Jennings (36, Reddick) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm affecting commerce by a previously convicted felon. Jennings previously had entered a guilty plea to the offense on Oct. 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Milton Williams, Jr., 35, of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford, to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley sentenced Kao Xiong, 34, of Saint Paul, Minnesota, today to time served plus five months of home detention and three years of supervised release for making a false bomb threat, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott said today.
