News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Member of ATM Skimming Conspiracy Pleads Guilty for Targeting Multiple New Jersey Bank Locations.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: San Francisco, CA - On Saturday, Aug. 19, from 9:30am-5pm, fast track your knowledge of maritime history with activities and music at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s 2017 Festival of the Sea. This year, the Festival’s theme is “High Tech on the High Seas: The Evolution of Maritime...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Florida Resident Sentenced to Life in Prison for Attempting to Possess a Weapon of Mass Destruction and Provide Material Support to a Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Robert Hybertson, age 59, of Brighton, Colorado charged with violations of IRS and Social Security laws appeared before a U.S. Magistrate Judge today for arraignment and a detention hearing. The defendant was ordered released on bond by U.S. Magistrate Judge Scott T. Varholak. He first appeared...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WALTER GONZALEZ, 45, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 71 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing and selling firearms, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and Chief Gorden G. Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD), announced that Shane Roach, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced last week in federal court for his conviction on a commercial sex trafficking charge.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) -The public is invited to give feedback on a Plan of Operations for underground mining north of Golden Sunlight Mine’s existing open pit on lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Releases from Guernsey Reservoir to the North Platte River began on April 17. The Guernsey release is expected to reach a flow of 3,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) on April 18 which will be maintained through the month of April. Irrigation diversions have not started yet, but releases are being made to prepare for runoff. The magnitude of these flows is not unusual but the timing is roughly 2-3 weeks earlier than normal.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Ranking Member Claire McCaskill of Missouri, and a bipartisan group of their colleagues are urging President Donald Trump to quickly nominate qualified candidates for Inspectors General (IGs),...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: On April 17, 2017, defendant Gil Gaxiola was sentenced in Cochise County to 76 years in prison after having been convicted of attempted first degree murder of a National Park Service employee. He was also convicted of armed robbery, three counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping and theft of means of transportation from an incident that occurred at Chiricahua National Monument in 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: APRIL 18, 2017 - The 2016 Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections provides a comprehensive look at state governments and contains statistics on the tax collections of all state governments, including receipts from compulsory fees. State governments and businesses have been using these statistics to make policy and investment decisions since 1951.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - International Tutoring Services, LLC, f/k/a International Tutoring Services, Inc., and d/b/a Hospice Plus; Goodwin Hospice, LLC; Phoenix Hospice, LP; Hospice Plus, L.P.; and Curo Health Services, LLC f/k/a Curo Health Services, Inc. have agreed to pay $12.21 million to resolve allegations that...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Firas Abuzuhrieh, 40, an Israeli national who is legal permanent resident residing in Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in Santa Fe, N.M., to 30 months of imprisonment for his conviction on federal synthetic drug trafficking charges. Abuzuhrieh will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that on April 12, 2017 in Federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced TROY AHKEEM WILSON, 38, of Wilmington to 144 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Andrew Jones (37, Miami) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He pleaded guilty on January 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fondled Georgetown Student, Caught Immediately by Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Melissa Hayes (36, Tampa) to 27 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit theft of government property and identity theft. She pleaded guilty on Nov. 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Pell City contractor pleaded guilty today in federal court to explosives storage and record-keeping charges filed after his failed 2015 implosion of a 100-year-old smokestack ended with the structure collapsing on the track hoe he was using to complete the job.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: Gregorio Gigliotti’s Sentence Follows his Conviction at Trial for Importing More Than 50 Kilograms of Cocaine into the U.S from Costa Rica in Shipments of Produce.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt seeking clarification on media reports that EPA officials are in active discussions with private sector industries to hire private attorneys to quickly re-write a weakened version of the Clean Water Rule, which protects water sources across the country.
