News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Sylvia Ochoa, 34, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to embezzlement by a bank employee, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: A Georgia man was arrested on federal charges that he sold heroin in the Youngstown area, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement on FCC Chairman Pai’s decision to reverse the conditions imposed on Charter Communications.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Four Energy and Commerce Committee democratic leaders sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today urging Committee Republicans to work with Democrats to carry out oversight and investigate the Trump Administration’s decision to allow the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos despite overwhelming scientific...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Laschinski Emerson Selected to Receive the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Prairie Village, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: ST. GEORGE - Federal prosecutors working in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in St. George have filed 15 firearms cases since the beginning of 2017. Partnering with local police officers, task forces, and federal agents, their efforts are targeting individuals prohibited under federal laws from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today introduced a resolution underscoring the need for a strong response by the United States to the drought, food insecurity, and risk of famine plaguing the Horn of Africa (H.Res.239). Ranking...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Maurice L. Ross, age 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 29, 2017, by a federal grand jury with unlawful possession of a firearm and three armed robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Antonio Terrell Brown, 31, of Charlotte, a former Charlotte-area mail carrier, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler today and pleaded guilty to mail theft for his involvement in a Jamaican-based lottery fraud scheme, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan Gonzalez Hernandez, age 26, of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (27 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct an approximately 4,500 acre prescribed fire 40 miles southeast of Grants, New Mexico, within the El Malpais National Conservation Area (NCA) from April 10 through April 30, weather permitting. The prescribed fire is being conducted in cooperation with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Manish Patel, age 43, and a citizen of India, pled guilty today to use of a false passport, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant pleaded guilty to health care fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ambulai R. Sheku, 37, of Providence, a former Senior Employment Interviewer with the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (DLT), today was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit mail fraud, theft of government funds and accessing a protected computer to commit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City man was sentenced Monday to 63 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Prairie Village, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Jumped Bank Counters, Used Pepper Spray to Steal Cash.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: Big Bend National Park is working on Old Maverick Road for much needed improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Celeste P. Bermudez, 41, formerly of St. Croix, pleaded guilty today to theft of federal program funds and making and subscribing a false income tax return, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Judge Curtis V. Gomez allowed Bermudez to remain on bail until Aug. 1, 2017, when she must self-surrender to the United States Marshals Service. Sentencing is scheduled for August 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Sylvia Ochoa, 34, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to embezzlement by a bank employee, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
