News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: National Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week Is September 18-24.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Franklin woman was sentenced Thursday to 24 months in prison for stealing more than $61,500 from the company where she worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court recognized a woman’s constitutional right to make what is perhaps the most profoundly personal of healthcare decisions -when to start a family - free from undue government interference.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with Western Area Power Administration, is hosting a free webinar on "Strategic Partnerships for Clean Energy and Economic Development Project Regulatory Considerations" Wednesday, Sept. 28, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Anthony Watson, 26, and Joshua Martin, 25, both of Jackson, were sentenced on Sept. 22, 2016 by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves for using a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Constance Hester Davis with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Illinois Fugitive Arrest at Atlanta/Dekalb. Acting Special Agent in Charge George Crouch, FBI Atlanta, announces the following arrest today at Decatur, Georgia. On Friday, Sept. 23, 2016, Kenneth Blatcher, age 26, of Chicago, Illinois, was arrested without incident at a Decatur, Georgia apartment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Incidents Took Place in 2013 and 2014, at Three Different Hospitals.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) sent a letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) calling on the agency to “bolster contraception education and access for servicemembers and their families" across all four services. The Senators...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to using a telephone in the commission of a murder-for-hire scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY SCOTT, a/k/a “Tyson," pled guilty today to involvement in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his membership in the “Young Gunnaz" (“YGz"), a violent street gang that operated in and around...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: FBI Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Fidel Urbina Arrested.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men, one from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one from Detroit, Michigan, were sentenced today for distributing heroin and oxycodone, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - John S. Comer, Special Agent in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today an indictment charging Alejandro Javier Rodriguez-Jimenez, Jesus Rodriguez-Jimenez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Reuben Jackson, 52, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to three counts of bank robbery, for three bank robberies that occurred in Center City Philadelphia in April and May 2016, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Michael Harpster.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and accessing a protected computer without authorization and obtaining information in order to provide material support to ISIL.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) successfully auctioned six grazing units within the McGregor Range in southern NM. The bids ranged from $20 to $35 per Animal Unit Month (AUM), yielding $489,092 for the McGregor Range management and improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: Shots Fired in Broad Daylight in Apartment Parking Lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of ROBERT E. FACKLER, 63, with obstructing an IRS audit. FACKLER, who was indicted on April 4, 2016, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two men have been arrested and authorities are seeking a third for their alleged involvement in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
