News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BEAUFORT, S.C. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team and the Beaufort/Port Royal Fire Department today announced the preliminary findings in the Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce fire that occurred on Nov. 12, 2016. While components of the investigation will continue, the investigative entities have determined that the fire was accidental.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Monte A. Cason of the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Dallas Field Office, announced that a former employee of a halfway house in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 100 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for sexually abusing six female inmates who were under his custodial authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Jailer allegedly received kickbacks totaling $175,000 from contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Whittier, California, man was convicted today of wire fraud in connection with his involvement in a scheme to defraud a software company of more than $16 million, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Leslie R. Caldwell.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Ellis Treas-Baca, 31, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a sexual abuse charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Treas-Baca will be sentenced to 78 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Treas-Baca will also be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: H.R. 5422 is a bipartisan measure intended to ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a Christmas Open House at the Cravens House located on Lookout Mountain. The Cravens House will be decorated in a manner very similar to the Civil War era. This special holiday event will take place from...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SERGIO GRIMALDO age 34, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess and distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine. GRIMALDO’s organization distributed more than one-thousand kilograms of cocaine throughout United States, to include Jackson, Mississippi, Pensacola, Florida, New York City, New York, and Houma, Louisiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan support for the 21st Century Cures Act continues to grow stronger by the day. In recent weeks, letters of support have come from Research!America and United for Medical Research, and One Voice Against Cancer. Most recently, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Association of American Universities (AAU) wrote expressing their continued support of the nonpartisan Cures bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Jailer allegedly received kickbacks totaling $175,000 from contractors.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a net loss of $5.6 billion in fiscal year 2016. This report...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Nine men were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL. GULED OMAR, 22, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison. MOHAMED FARAH, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. ABDIRAHMAN DAUD, 22, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: A homicide investigation by the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch, Visalia Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has led to a guilty verdict. On November 9, 2016, a jury convicted Miguel Villegas Pacheco, age 35, of first-degree murder in the 2013 death of his 14-year-old stepson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James J. Senior, 40, of Clinton, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 71 months in prison and three years of supervised release for pharmacy robbery. He was also ordered to pay restitution. Senior pleaded guilty on June 11, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), and the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the recent series of Internet of Things (IoT) connected device-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Johnny Biggs, age 37, inmate at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, was indicted on Nov. 15, 2016, by a federal grand jury for possession of a dangerous weapon and possession of contraband.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record at a joint Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Understanding the Role of Connected Devices in Recent Cyber Attacks:"
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack appointed five new members to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), adding valuable perspectives to the 15-member advisory board. Appointees will begin their 5-year service on the NOSB on Jan. 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Paul Raymond Garcia, 19, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced James Kingsborough, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kingsborough was convicted by a federal jury on June 22, 2016.
