News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: DENVER - David Michael Ansberry, age 64, will appear in court at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang to be read his rights and advised of the charges pending against him. Magistrate Judge Wang’s courtroom is located at the Byron G. Rogers U.S. Courthouse, 1929 Stout Street, Courtroom 204.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 43 months in federal prison for helping his twin brother rob a payday lender’s store, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Eustace, Texas, man who worked as an inspector for the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan to a federal offense related to his purposefully falsifying mine safety inspection reports with the intent to deceive the MSHA, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for a heroin crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jessica Dawn Prince, 30, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gregory Scott Runion, 33, of Seth, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: Fourth graders on a field trip to the erupting summit of Kīlauea Monday morning received their free Every Kid in a Park pass from a strong supporter of the program: Senator Mazie K. Hirono of Hawai‘i.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jaquan McIntosh, a/k/a “BJ," pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his membership in the “2Fly YGz" (“2Fly"), a violent street gang that operated...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: In Austin today, federal agents arrested three individuals based on allegations that they misused Social Security Information and/or Benefits announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Resident Agent in Charge Ron Trevino, Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General-Office of Investigations.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: Twenty-five Republican members of the Senate and House education committees today urged the Department of Education to withdraw its proposed “supplement not supplant" regulation, saying it “violates the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress," and called on the department to instead work with Congress to implement the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act as it is written.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that its Civil Rights Division plans to deploy more than 500 personnel to 67 jurisdictions in 28 states for the Nov. 8, 2016, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Sun Valley man who admitted a host of criminal charges related to a 2013 shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport in which he murdered Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced today to spend the rest of his life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Kevin Pettis, aka KP, 37, of the 400 block of South State Street, Champaign, was sentenced today to the maximum 120 months in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Pettis has been in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, November 7, 2016, John Martin Roos, 62, of Medford, plead guilty in United States District Court to threatening to kill the President of the United States. In separate counts, Roos also pled guilty to threatening to shoot FBI agents and possession of an unregistered explosive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Thomas Vance, 47, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today in in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Vance will be on supervised release for five years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gregory Scott, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 92 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: FBI Boston Division Moves to New Location.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BOBBY R. LOWE, age 66, a resident of Harvey, was charged today in a Bill of Information with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sean Dickerson, 29, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, pled guilty to the distribution of heroin in federal court today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Sun Valley man who admitted a host of criminal charges related to a 2013 shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport in which he murdered Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced today to spend the rest of his life in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2016
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has provided a 2-week extension to the public scoping period to obtain feedback and ideas from the public regarding Seashore areas that experience flooding near Buxton and Frisco.
