News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: A former Seattle resident was arrested in Wisconsin this morning in connection with an attack on Seattle Police at the May Day protest in 2016, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. WIL CASEY FLOYD, 32, will appear in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this afternoon. FLOYD was identified...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Michael Joseph Armano (43, Pinellas County) to 30 years in federal prison for child enticement and possession of child pornography. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered him to pay $72,415 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - BARBARA BYRD-BENNETT was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison for using her position in charge of the Chicago Public Schools to guide lucrative no-bid contracts to her former employer in exchange for bribes and kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Xavier L. Johnson, 36, formerly of Elk Grove, and Kristin M. Caldwell, 35, of Elk Grove, pleaded guilty today to trafficking in counterfeit goods, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Man Wearing Lobos Baseball Cap Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Guilford Courthouse National Military Park is the first Southeast Region Park to fully comply with guidelines set forth in the new NPS Chainsaw Safety Program for Non-Wildland Fire Operators. Toby Obenauer, SEEPMT Leader, trained and certified the Chief of Visitor Services, the Chief of Maintenance and...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and U.S. Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today joined President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke for the signing ceremony of an Executive Order to implement an America-First Offshore Energy Strategy. The order lifts ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant KISANO OPISBO aka ENRICKSON FREDRICK, age 43, a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), was sentenced on April 27, 2017, in District Court, to five...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of 21 new energy and water saving contracts to private-sector companies that will help improve the efficiency of federal facilities. These indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) are awarded to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Creating “synthetic identities" from phony Social Security numbers is one of the fastest growing forms of identity theft in the United States, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia is prosecuting increased numbers of these cases to stay in front of this trend.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A southeast Texas man admitted in federal court Thursday that he illegally attempted to meet and have sex with an underage girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Following a two-day trial before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, a federal jury convicted Terry Dixon, 42, of Arlington, earlier this week of one count of felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - - Hamlet Severino De La Rosa, 41, a citizen of the Dominican Republic residing in Utica, New York, was sentenced today to serve 24 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. The sentence was jointly announced by James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 29-year-old Edinburg man has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of production, receipt and distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Carlos Benjamin Martinez pleaded guilty Dec. 2, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that the federal court in the Western District of North Carolina has ordered the final forfeiture of a Henderson County residence used in the illegal distribution of oxycodone and other narcotics. The forfeiture of the residence to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that five men were indicted on April 27, 2017, by a federal grand for illegal possession and transfer of machine gun parts and firearms, interstate travel in aid of racketeering activities, and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and conduct money laundering transactions. The indictment was partially unsealed on April 27, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing that Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument (Monument) will be unavailable for public use, and will be closed on May 3, 2017, and reopen on May 4. “Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks is a serene and beautiful place that we must preserve for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two Rhode Island sisters were sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for their roles in an immigration services fraud that netted over $700,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2017
News Release: On Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Sagamore Hill NHS will be participating in I Love My Park Day. Interested volunteers will be assisting Sagamore Hill staff prepare for the upcoming summer season. Activities will include beach clean-up, raking leaves, weeding around the garden, and sign...
