News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul Byron has sentenced Trevor John (39, Palm Bay) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, hydromorphone, and heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND -Kasey Ludberg, 27, of Lafayette, Indiana was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a child and receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Glen Jacobs, 43 years old, of Rome City, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to distributing a controlled substance and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Glen Jacobs, 43 years old, of Rome City, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to distributing a controlled substance and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Two North Carolina residents were sentenced on May 28, 2019, for distributing drugs in Rowan County, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina.

By USDA Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - Colombia and Panama are among the fastest-growing markets in the Western Hemisphere for U.S. farm and food products. American exporters seeking to tap that potential will join Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Ted McKinney in Bogotá for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s largest-ever international trade mission June 4-7.
By US DOT Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today resumed accepting applications to the FAA Contract Tower (FCT) program, as called for under the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. Contract towers are air traffic control towers that are staffed by employees of private companies rather than by FAA employees.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. citizen appeared today in federal court in Boston after being extradited from Brazil in connection with a $2 million wire fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. citizen appeared today in federal court in Boston after being extradited from Brazil in connection with a $2 million wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charles Chavez, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., appeared in federal court today on a criminal complaint charging him with two counts of carjacking and two counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Join Shelden Nuñez-Velarde of the Jicarilla Apache Nation on June 29th and 30th for a demonstration of how micaceous pottery is made! Mr. Nuñez-Velarde will showcase his methods and materials at the Pecos National Historical Park visitor center between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. on both days. For more information, contact Pecos NHP at (505) 757-7241.

By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a 4-H Club wild horse pick up on Wednesday, June 5, at the Eastern Idaho Fairgrounds in Blackfoot at 3 p.m. Youths representing eight different 4-H Clubs from Bear Lake to Custer Counties will select yearling wild horses to begin the training process of leading, loading in a horse trailer and picking up their feet. They will then offer these horses for adoption during the Eastern Idaho Fair on Sept. 2, 2019.

By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans by its Office of Science to establish new multidisciplinary research centers to support advanced research in the emerging field of quantum information science (QIS).
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: TACOMA, Wash. - Special Agent in Charge Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle Field Office and U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran announced today that a registered sex offender with two prior child pornography related convictions was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to fourteen years in prison and twenty years of supervised release for enticement of a minor.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Defendant Complained That a Competitor’s Low Prices Were Hurting His Business.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-On May 29, 2019, Laron Josiah Carr, age 26, of Bettendorf, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 84 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and felon in possession of a firearm.

By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: SAFFORD, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Safford Field Office and Gila District Fire Management Office will conduct a multiple day prescribed burn in the Aravaipa Canyon area, pending appropriate weather and seasonal conditions, within the week of June 3, 2019. The South Rim Burn will cover approximately 15,726 acres of BLM and private land in the Aravaipa Canyon Ecosystem Management Area located 50 miles west of Safford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 29, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment against a woman allegedly involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident in the Legend Lake area of the Menominee Indian Reservation. The...

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAMIR SULLIVAN, a/k/a “S," was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for four separate armed carjackings of cabs in Mt. Vernon and the Bronx in November 2018. SULLIVAN pled guilty on Jan. 28, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel, who imposed today’s sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Second Defendant also Pleads Guilty to Distributing Multiple Controlled Substances as Part of Conspiracy.