News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Amber Crouse, of Salamanca, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A, Wolford. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Republic, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. Benjamin Michael Hopper, 23, of Republic, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Three Allegheny County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, on charges of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with a witness by threat of physical force, and brandishing, using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: I would like to thank Chairman Dent and Ranking Member Bishop for holding this important hearing, and welcome Secretary McDonald and all of our distinguished guests this afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial Superintendent F. Gus Sánchez is pleased to announce the lineup and other important information for this year's 41st Siglo de Oro Drama Festival. The Festival's main stage performances will take place at 7 p.m. each night from Wednesday, March 30th through Saturday, April 2nd, 2016 in the National Memorial's Theater and Cultural Complex.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A former employee of a Logan County gun and pawn shop pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Steven Adkins, 38, of Man, entered his guilty plea to making and aiding and abetting false statements relating to firearms purchases.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal bank robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A priest of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 200 months in prison followed by lifetime supervised release for offenses related to his sexual abuse of two minor boys during trips to Honduras over a five-year period, announced U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Federal Grand Jury in Scranton returned an indictment yesterday charging Jose Mendoza, age 38, and Edwin Aguilar, age 25, with conspiracy to distribute heroin and the possession of heroin with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: A man with a prior felony and misdemeanor domestic abuse conviction was sentenced yesterday to nearly three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - DEA announced today the arrest of seven members of the Erick Erives drug trafficking (DTO), as a result of a 28-count indictment acquired through the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, citing multiple drug charges, allegations of money laundering and fraud. Erick Erives, the cell head...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Phillip Tracy Rodgers, Sr., 61, of Long Beach, Calif., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 33 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his drug trafficking conviction.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the unanimous approval by the United Nations Security Council of a resolution imposing additional sanctions on North Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that SANTIAGO DE LA TORRE, 45, of Joliet, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to Counts One and Seventeen of the indictment, which charge him with Conspiracy to Make False Statements Concerning Highway Projects, and Perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Pennsylvania Priest Sentenced to 200 Months for Sexually Abusing Minors.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nomination of the Honorable Patrick Pizzella to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority, and Julie H. Becker, Steven N. Berk, and Elizabeth C. Wingo to be Associate Judges, Superior Court of the District of Columbia." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, questioned Chairman Tom Wheeler of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing Wednesday about how the FCC arrived at its decision to regulate the Internet as a public utility.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: To commemorate the 10-year anniversary of ICE’s Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit (TCIU), Deputy Director Dan Ragsdale earlier this month traveled to the Dominican Republic for a reception at the Museo de Casas Reales in Santo Domingo, where he was joined by members of the TCIU, as well as numerous government, diplomatic, and law enforcement partners.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska will hold a series of meetings in Fairbanks beginning March 7.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMS, Calif. -- Federal agencies and partners will hold a spring festival and dedication ceremony Saturday, March 19, to celebrate establishment of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cowboy Camp, east of Williams along California State Highway 16, about a mile south of Highway 20.
