News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Richard Lee Devito, 35, of Batavia, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for creating child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - If you plan to travel to Yellowstone National Park this summer, come prepared so you can protect yourself and this wild and awe-inspiring place.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that an indictment was unsealed today against Mark Wayne Ramsey, 29, of San Francisco, California, charging him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and four counts of securities fraud.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Lassen Volcanic National Park is excited to announce a new partnership with the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) which will incorporate the park into the University of California’s Natural Reserve System. The addition marks the sixth UC Davis Natural Reserve in a system that now spans Northern California from its alpine forests and across grassland prairies to the shores of Bodega Bay. It is among 41 reserves in the UC-wide reserve system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel sentenced 45-year-old Terry Allen Miles to life in federal prison for kidnapping two minors and taking them to Colorado, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant Trafficked Juvenile and Adults, Controlling Them with Violence, Threats, and Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Stephanie Czuprynko, 54, Lake Delton, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty today to a public corruption charge in U.S. District Court in Madison, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence, R.I., today returned an 18-count indictment charging a Florida man with participating in an alleged scheme to steal debit cards and debit card PIN numbers from mailboxes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and using the debit cards at ATMs in both states...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wood County man who possessed firearms after being involuntarily committed to a mental hospital pled guilty to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Benjamin Lee Parsons, 31, of Mineral Wells, entered a guilty plea to illegal possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: This is the third session of Congress in which I have introduced legislation to ban the practice of surprise billing. Today’s bipartisan hearing represents an initial effort by this committee to finally offer some relief to patients, who have been bearing the brunt of a dispute between their insurers and some of their health care providers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Matthew J. Soban, 27, Baraboo, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of two handguns. Soban pleaded guilty to this charge on March 12, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Taurus Tillman, a/k/a Tash, age 30, of Baltimore, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to participate in a drug distribution conspiracy and a violent racketeering enterprise ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberstalking and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Agency Village, South Dakota, man convicted of sexual abuse of a minor was sentenced on May 20, 2019, by U.S. District Jude Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Oregon FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Vacation Rental Scams.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: * Owyhee River, Idaho-Oregon: The Owyhee River canyon consists of steep, rhyolite walls ranging in height from 250 feet to over 1000 feet near the Oregon border. Explore this National Wild and Scenic River by floating some of its 120 miles through rugged, spectacular canyonlands and ash flows. The west...
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - At approximately 3:30 pm on May 18, 2019, Big Bend National Park was notified that a visitor was missing after falling into the Rio Grande near the Hot Springs. Witnesses searched the spot where he entered the river, but were unable to locate him.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), Oversight Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA), and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) issued the following statement reaffirming the Ways and Means Committee’s authority and responsibility to conduct oversight over programs in its jurisdiction, specifically the federal foster care program...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man and woman from Great Bend have been charged in a 10-count indictment alleging possession or sale of cocaine, fentanyl, LSD, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four members of the violent, Mexican Mafia-affiliated Canta Ranas street gang have received lengthy prison sentences for violating multiple federal laws, including participating in racketeering, drug trafficking, and money laundering conspiracies.
