News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial and Western National Parks Association invite you to a holiday sale at our Park Store from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 17. Most books, clothing and collectibles in the Park Store will be on sale at a 15 percent discount. National Park Service 2016 Centennial...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 132,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced that financial collections in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 in the District of Maryland reached $46,916,648.14. The U.S. Department of Justice keeps statistics on a fiscal year basis, closing the books each September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Special Agents from the FBI Jacksonville Division have identified Stephen Cometa as the subject involved in a shooting at The Villages VA Outpatient Clinic in Summerfield, Florida on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Traveled to Seattle to Pick up Parts from Undercover Agent; Planned to Smuggle Parts into China.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Border Patrol Agent Charged with Attempting to Distribute Narcotics and Bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHN PAUL PIERRE, age 29, of Kenner, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that David Hurl Lemmon, age 43 of Alma, Arkansas, was found guilty on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute More than 500 grams of Methamphetamine and one count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm following a two and one-half day jury trial. The Honorable Chief Judge P.K. Holmes, III presided over the trial in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury indicted Ikechi W. Emeaghara, 27, of Columbus, today in a superseding indictment charging him with seven additional armed bank robberies. He was indicted on one other count of armed bank robbery on November 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Three men were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with the sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced today that his office collected $10,286,273 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, $1,612,396 was collected in criminal actions and $8,673,877 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two real estate brokers and a client were arrested today and charged in connection with a scheme to use bogus information and simultaneous loan applications at multiple banks to fraudulently obtain home equity lines of credit, a practice known as “shotgunning," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Casey Gibson, 23, of Jerome was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Gibson pleaded guilty on Aug. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Charles Ulysses Bowman-Bey, a/k/a Big Flock, age 24, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm and to possession with intent to distribute Alprazolam, a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Nicholas Young, 37, of Fairfax, who was formerly employed as a police officer with the Metro Transit Police Department, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: Business E-Mail Compromise Scheme Fraud Alert.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who illegally possessed multiple firearms was sentenced this week to 14 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Maurice Abad Malabed, aka “Moe," 47, and David Patrick Christensen, 29, both of Anchorage were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for trafficking in methamphetamine bound for Utqiaġvik, (formerly Barrow, Alaska).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury in Fresno returned an indictment today against Emil Vladimirov Babadjov, 31, of San Francisco, charging him with distributing fentanyl and heroin, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced. Babadjov was arrested and made his initial court appearance on Dec. 14, 2016, in San Francisco.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met Thursday afternoon with President-elect Donald Trump’s designated nominee for Homeland Security secretary, Gen. John Kelly.
