News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Marshfield man was sentenced on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin and fentanyl in Marshfield, Taunton and surrounding communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 53-year-old Mexican National has been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to harbor undocumented aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Julio Puente-Oliva pleaded guilty Jan. 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant PETER ANTHONY CONCEPCION SANTOS, age 44, was sentenced in District Court to a 63-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: APR 27 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Bermudez, a/k/a Michael J. Morales, 35, of Cranston, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for trafficking cocaine and fentanyl laced heroin, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA for New England, Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch, and Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Idaho Man Sentenced For Federal Hate Crime Based on Victim’s Sexual Orientation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Saturday, April 29, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Des Moines Resident Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other participating law enforcement agencies will give the public its 13th opportunity in 7 years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: OAKLAND- Shawan I. Spragans and Merl J. Simpson were sentenced in federal court in Oakland today to serve prison sentences of 23 years and 20 years, respectively, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today Dana “Big Face" Deffenbaugh, 36, of Little Rock, was sentenced to 188 months imprisonment for sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Cranston Police, DEA seize 6,600 packets of fentanyl laced heroin, 153 grams of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yusef Blocker, 35, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - A bill to repeal regulatory mandates on Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and keep decision-making authority for transportation improvements at the local level overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 417 to 3 today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, during a hearing before the National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on President Trump’s border wall proposal, Chairman Ron DeSantis (R-FL) dismissed President Trump’s campaign promise to build a border wall along the entire 2,000-mile southern U.S. border.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Wellesley High School assistant track coach, who is also a former Harvard University track coach, was arrested and charged today with distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Juan Armando Garcia-Paez, 38, of La Mirada, California, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on April 26, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute 32 pounds of methamphetamine. Garcia-Paez was arrested in Sundance, Wyoming. He received 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: Bill Would Raise Worker Caps, Help Northern Marianas Future Economic Growth
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.6 million visitors to Arches National Park in 2016 spent $188.8 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 3,100 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $251.6 million (a 16.3% increase from 2015 and an 82.3 % increase since 2012).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Thurlo Eugene Clark, 72, of Bonner Ferry, Idaho, pleaded guilty on April 25, 2017, to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced. Clark was charged by an information that was filed on April 3, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Peter Steve Plesinger, 55, of Sahuarita, Ariz., and Stephen Edward Smith, 63, of Tucson, Ariz., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 87 months and 102 months, respectively, in prison. Both men had previously pleaded guilty to exportation of munitions from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 35-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been found guilty by a jury for federal violations related to the murder of a Port Acres woman in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on Syria at the full Committee hearing...
