News from June 2016
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: SANTO DOMINGO - This past week, special agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs (OFTP) national Special Response Teams (SRT) provided training to the Dominican National Police (DNP) SWAT team on the use of advanced tactics and technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Manuel Geovanny Rodriguez-Perez Admits Responsibility for Nine Murders, 10 Attempted Murders, Marijuana Trafficking, Money Laundering, and Other Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Tens of thousands of files of alleged child pornography seized from Jordan Monroe's residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to taking part in an interstate sex trafficking business, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after top United Nations (U.N.) whistleblower Anders Kompass resigned in protest over the U.N.’s failure to hold senior officials accountable for allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by peacekeeping forces and efforts to silence those who revealed them.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STEVEN LONG, age 30, of Pearl River, Louisiana, pled guilty today to illegally possessing five firearms in his home on March 10, 2016, after having previously been convicted of three narcotics felonies in St. Tammany Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Kevin L. Burris, 42, Belleville, Illinois, pled guilty on June 6, 2016, to an indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in February charging him with Distribution of Cocaine Base (Counts 1 and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Shawndale Saunders, 54, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, with cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that yesterday, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced GEORGE LINCOLN STANLEY IV, 47, of Durham, North Carolina, to life imprisonment for kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Kevin L. Burris, 42, Belleville, Illinois, pled guilty on June 6, 2016, to an indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in February charging him with Distribution of Cocaine Base (Counts 1 and...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Cape Lookout National Seashore is pleased to announce that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Duke University Marine Laboratory are monitoring sea turtles in the waters of the park through November 2016. The research area includes Cape Lookout Bight and Back and Core Sounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: California Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Attempting to Join ISIL.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House passed H. Con. Res. 129, bipartisan legislation authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), which urges Germany to reaffirm its financial commitment to address the health and welfare needs of Holocaust survivors. Following House passage, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) unveiled new data from the 2013-2014 school year showing gaps that remain in educational equity and opportunity for students. Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) released the following statement on the release of the new data by OCR...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeffrey Barnard, 52, of Ellsworth, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric G. Acosta, 29, a resident of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges. Acosta’s conviction was based on his May 14, 2015, guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant Also Admitted Trying to Rob a Second Bank, Three Days Earlier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Marjorie Hendrie, 42, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced for the robbery of a TD Bank branch location in March 2015. United States District Judge Paul Barbadoro imposed a sentence of 37 months’ imprisonment, three years supervised release, restitution to the Bank, and a mandatory $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Marjorie Hendrie, 42, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced for the robbery of a TD Bank branch location in March 2015. United States District Judge Paul Barbadoro imposed a sentence of 37 months’ imprisonment, three years supervised release, restitution to the Bank, and a mandatory $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thomas E. Shaffer, 63, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 200 months in prison and five years of supervised release for robbery and armed robbery at six locations in Central Ohio.
