News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 21, a federal grand jury in Harrisburg charged Jose Miguel Francisco with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien. Francisco, age 30, was previously deported from the United States in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Delexsia Harris (24, Bradenton) guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. She faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 20, 2016. Harris was indicted on May 25, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced in federal court by U.S. District Court Judge Philip G. Reinhard for his role in a conspiracy to receive, possess, conceal, store, sell, and dispose of stolen firearms and ammunition, and other firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Gordon Johnson Named Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on five bills including H.R. 5780 (Rep. Rob Bishop), the “Utah Public Lands Initiative Act." This bill designates millions of acres of federal land for conservation and recreation; exchanges and consolidates certain federal and non-federal land; and provides for economic development within the State of Utah. H.R. 5780 passed by a vote of 21-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two Eagle Butte, South Dakota, women have been indicted by a federal grand jury for nine counts of Distribution of a Controlled Substance, Distribution of a Controlled Substance, and Aiding and Abetting.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: In El Paso, a federal jury has convicted 50-year-old El Paso attorney Marco Antonio Delgado (aka Marco Delgado Licon) in connection with a multi-million dollar wire fraud and money laundering scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George Jarrod Hazel sentenced Paul Raymond Gray, a/k/a “PJ," age 35, of Lusby, Maryland, today to 66 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder and crack cocaine, two...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Stole prescription pain pills at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett proclaimed the week of Sept. 26, 2016 as Rail Safety Week. The attached Proclamation encourages all citizens to participate in activities to reduce crossing crashes and pedestrian/railroad trespass incidents during the week and throughout the year.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Calif. -- On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, park dispatchers were notified by the Inyo County Sherrif's Department of a missing person presumably in Kings Canyon National Park. Alfred Kwok, a 50-year-old male from Claremont, CA, was reported overdue from a solo wilderness trip that was planned to conclude on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Nineteen Shots Fired at Victim and His Friends.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, after obtaining an internal document from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson requesting information related to security vulnerabilities in the refugee and asylum systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced David Joseph Gruber (53, Jacksonville Beach) to 30 months in federal prison for conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and failure to appear. The Court also ordered him to forfeit...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - During a week that the Department of Justice has designated as National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week, in which it seeks to prevent new victims from succumbing to addiction and highlight its ongoing commitment to hold traffickers accountable, a federal grand jury in Dallas returned a superseding...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: October Public Programs at War in the Pacific National Historical Park.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) released the following statement on efforts by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s National Electoral Council to block a constitutionally mandated presidential recall referendum from taking place this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A real estate investor has been charged in a 14-count indictment that alleges he defrauded three banks and a mortgage lending business. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Charged with putting glass shards in cups being sent to fast food restaurants.
