News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a firearm after a witness called the police to report him burglarizing a neighbor’s home using a stolen car.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A pair of conspirators who were part of a group that trafficked methamphetamine from Arizona to Roanoke before distributing it throughout the region were sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Two individuals have been convicted for their role in a $2 million romance scam conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kunle Mutiu Amoo, 48, and Lanre Sunday Adeoba, 61, both Nigerian citizens who resided outside the Houston area, each pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A superseding indictment was filed yesterday charging three men with dealing in firearms without a license, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Darien Montae Thompson, 22, Omar Tarik Davenport, 24, and Sekou Maliek Davenport, 21, all of Philadelphia, are charged with selling...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement condemning the attack in Nice, France yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: PROJECT SAFE CHILDHOOD. CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - John P. Howe, Jr., 34, of Troy, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a sentence...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - Sealed contract bids for commercial pine nut gathering permits must be submitted to the Bureau of Land Management’s Cedar City Field Office by 2 p.m. Aug. 5.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Chief Executive Officer Chris Henderson. The letter builds upon the committee’s ongoing investigation into the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Ohio Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Engaging in Child Exploitation Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Destiny Stephenson, 35, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Malcolm Anthony Moore, age 23, of Beaufort, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina for Possession of Stolen Firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(j). United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that five men were arrested today on federal charges related to two separate, large-scale fencing operations in the New Haven area.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai requesting a briefing from Commissioner Pai’s staff regarding his current investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Destiny Stephenson, 35, of Roswell, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Ronald Miltier, 54, of Portsmouth, was convicted late yesterday by a federal jury on charges related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a St. Landry woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing more than $116,000 from an Opelousas-based medical imaging business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Asim Benns, a/k/a Seem, age 33, of Baltimore, today to 275 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervise release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities. Benns was a member of the UDH organization, as well as being a high-ranking member of the Black Guerilla Family gang, overseeing the “up the hill" area of Cherry Hill.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS - The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to "Beak Knows Best," a special Junior Ranger program to be held at the Parkway Visitor Center on Saturday, July 30, 2016 at 10:00 am. Whether it's long or short, skinny or fat, wide or thin, a bird's beak can tell you a lot about...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: The bipartisan working group on policing strategies - announced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) - met to discuss the issues of the use of excessive force by police, aggression towards law enforcement, and public safety concerns related to these issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, for possessing and distributing child pornography.
