News from March 2019
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site (NHS) welcomes visitors to meet photographer Oren B. Helbok at a reception in the Visitor Center Gallery this Saturday, March 23, 2019, from 1:00-3:00 pm. Currently on exhibition is, Railroading: the Hardware, the Landscape, and the People, featuring 28 of Helbok's recent photographs, all taken since August 2016.
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: 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: Gulfport, Miss - David Diaz Rodriguez, 68, of Edcouch, Texas, entered a guilty plea today before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Roy Ulysses Benitez, 26, of Nampa, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also placed Benitez on supervised release for three years after he is released from prison. Benitez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Dec. 12, 2017. He was found guilty of the crime after a three-day jury trial in December 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service will offer a special program on the history of third system of United States coastal fortifications by fort expert and author John R. Weaver II at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center, located at 1214 Middle Street, Sullivan’s Island, on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 at 6:30 pm. This program will be free.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ryan Witter, 36, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 126 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The leader of a serial robbery crew was sentenced today to 210 months in federal prison for two armed robberies in Las Vegas, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Shane Corey Muse, 29, of Anchorage, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. In August 2018, Muse pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with being felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo and Naugatuck Police Chief Steven Hunt today announced that 29 individuals have been charged with federal narcotics offenses related to the distribution of heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine in and around Waterbury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Gangster Disciples gang member was sentenced today to 324 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for participating in both racketeering and drug conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A citizen of Nigeria residing in Atlanta, and a citizen of Mexico residing in California, were convicted Wednesday after a seven-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee on charges related to the part each played in an international cyber fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maxim Levin, 41, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 21 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $161,606.
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maxim Levin, 41, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 21 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $161,606.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the filing of a civil forfeiture action seeking the return to...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Nearly two-thirds of the Lower 48 states face an elevated risk for flooding through May, with the potential for major or moderate flooding in 25 states, according to NOAA’s U.S. Spring Outlook issued today. The majority of the country is favored to experience above-average precipitation this spring, increasing the flood risk.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) responded to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to not extend the deadline for public comments on the revised definition of Waters of the United States (WOTUS).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Wednesday evening, convicted a Birmingham man, of possessing with the intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with the intention to distribute, two counts of carrying a gun in relation to a drug-trafficking crime, two counts of possession of a firearm...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler today requesting that EPA immediately release the health and safety studies it used to conduct its risk evaluation of Pigment Violet 29 (PV29), a chemical commonly found in paints and plastics.
