News from May 2019

By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging ANTHONY MORALES, 29, of Waterbury, with possession of a firearm a by a convicted felon.

By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Van-Seyla Mork pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose today to wire fraud and money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Beaver County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 8 years (96 months) in prison and five years supervised release on his conviction of violations of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Hallandale Beach, Florida, has been sentenced in federal court to 3 years and 2 months (38 months) in prison on his conviction of violating federal drugs laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Safe Neighborhoods investigation resulted in the arrest of four individuals for trafficking cocaine and crack cocaine into Newport, RI.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Six southern Missouri residents are among 15 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy that involved multi-pound shipments of methamphetamine transported from Arizona to Missouri.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, joined his colleagues in introducing bipartisan legislation that would save millions of taxpayer dollars by preventing improper or fraudulent payments to deceased individuals. The...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - El Departamento de Justicia ha llegado a un acuerdo con la Corte Suprema de Luisiana (LSC, por sus siglas en inglés) que reconoce el compromiso de la LSC a colaborar con el Sistema Judicial de Luisiana para iniciar un programa de acceso lingüístico que proporcionará servicios gratuitos de apoyo lingüístico orales y escritos a individuos que no dominan el inglés (LEP, por sus siglas en inglés) para todo proceso y operación judicial estatal.

By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: BARSTOW, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a field tour and public meeting of the BLM California Desert District Advisory Council, starting with the field tour on Friday, June 28, 2019, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and followed by a formal meeting session on Saturday, June 29, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Ramada Inn, 1511 East Main Street, Barstow, California 92311.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Previously Convicted of Illegally Possessing a Sawed-Off-Shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Dalmary Morales, age 38, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced on May 9 to 57 months in prison for receiving, possessing, concealing, and storing firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that John Homer Legros Jr., 40, of, Lake Charles, who sold hundreds of Oxycodone pills was sentenced May 9, 2019 by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter to 12 years in prison and three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A career con man pleaded guilty today in a federal fraud case stemming from a real estate scam that targeted distressed homeowners, many of whom were elderly individuals who were scammed out of their homes, losing significant equity in the properties accumulated over the course of their lifetimes and sometimes over the course of generations of home ownership.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: Saguaro National Park Fire managers plan to move forward with a prescribed burn on Mica Mountain in the Saguaro Wilderness of the Rincon Mountain District (Saguaro East) this week when conditions are favorable. Planned ignitions are scheduled to begin on Tuesday, May 14th 2019.

By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has issued the final environmental impact statement for the El Dorado County Water Agency long-term water service contract. The contract will provide water to serve existing and future municipal and industrial water needs in El Dorado County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rodolfo Torres-Galvan, 30, (Torres), of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging ANTHONY MORALES, 29, of Waterbury, with possession of a firearm a by a convicted felon.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2019
News Release: James L. Jordan Faces Federal Murder, Assault with Intent to Murder Charges.

By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2019
News Release: While many of us work to make a difference in the legal profession, the Honorable Senior Judge Wiley Y. Daniel led the way. He was a trailblazer. Since arriving in Colorado in 1977, he pushed our state to become better - and thanks to him - it did. We celebrate his life of leadership, as a lawyer who...
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2019
News Release: Contact: Press@oc.usda.gov. Niigata, Japan, May 12, 2019 - Western Hemisphere agriculture leaders met today on the margins of the G-20 Agricultural Ministerial in Niigata, Japan, affirming their intent to work together to champion global food security and agricultural trade on the basis of sound science...