News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Daniel Stewart Gregg, 67, of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced on May 23, 2019, to 46 months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for engaging in a conspiracy to traffic Oregon-grown marijuana across state lines.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Sloan Canyon Visitor Contact Station hours of operation will change to Friday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. starting June 1. The Contact Station, located at the end of Nawghaw Poa Road near Henderson, Nevada, will be closed Monday through Thursday. The change in hours is a result of reduced visitation during the hot summer months.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney: The Revitalization of Project Safe Neighborhoods in Statesville Is a Major Component of Our Crime Reduction Strategy in that Community.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment charging three individuals with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 10 substantive counts of wire fraud, intentional misapplication of property by an agent of an organization receiving federal funds, aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A neurologist from Mandeville, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to unlawfully prescribe controlled substances, namely oxycodone and hydrocodone, without performing required face-to-face examinations, and his role in a scheme to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. -- A Charleston woman was sentenced today for her role in distributing methamphetamine and conspiring to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine. Juanita Carrie Haynes, 54, was sentenced to 108 months, or nine years, in prison. Haynes was one of several defendants arrested in November of 2018, after a long-term investigation into a drug-trafficking organization on the West Side of Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Educational Seminar on How to Avoid Getting Scammed Is Scheduled for June 10, 2019, at 10:00 a.m. at the Tyvola Senior Center in Charlotte.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Each Individual Played a Major Role in the Prosecution of Fraudsters Who Ran Bogus Fundraising Efforts for Wounded Military Veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tina Hart of Glenville, West Virginia, was sentenced to two years probation for a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Oscar Aaron Watkins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 156 months incarceration for his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s announcement on tariffs on Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who escaped from federal custody at the Gerald R. Hinzman Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2018 was sentenced today to serve 22 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Mandeville, Louisiana Neurologist Pleads Guilty for Role in Scheme to Unlawfully Dispense Controlled Substances and to Commit Health Care Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy security, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to offer 149 parcels, totaling nearly 183,668 acres on lands managed by the Canyon Country, Color Country, Green River, and West Desert districts at the Sept.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Clay County woman was sentenced for embezzling federal FEMA disaster benefits, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Pamela Taylor, 57, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, 2 months of home confinement, and a $10,000 fine for making multiple false statements to FEMA and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this week arrested six defendants named in a federal indictment that alleges a large-scale, Mexico-based narcotics trafficking operation smuggled hundreds of pounds of narcotics into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Kirk Gross, age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 16 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - An Ohio man was found guilty late yesterday for his role in a $7 million telemarketing scheme that defrauded primarily elderly victims in the United States from call centers in Costa Rica.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3,212,924 visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial in 2018 spent $203.1 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 2,947 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $255.4 million. Visitation at Cape Hatteras National Seashore was 2,591,056--the highest in 15 years.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - On Tuesday, June 4 and Wednesday, June 5 staff from the Division of Science and Resource Management (SRM) will be applying herbicide to the traffic islands on South Entrance and Yavapai Roads to remove grasses that attract elk in these congested areas of the Grand Canyon Village. The intent of the removal is to minimize conflicts between wildlife (elk) and both visitors and residents along the road corridors.
