News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: DENVER - The DEA-led Denver OCDETF Strike Force, including the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, DEA and the Aurora Police Department, today arrested multiple defendants throughout Colorado and California on various drug related charges, the Justice Department announced. The arrests were the result of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of Tinkle Management Inc. (TMI) has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of wire fraud and money laundering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. John Blake Tinkle, 60, of Tomball, pleaded guilty Sept. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kyle Maurice Parks was sentenced to 300 months in prison for his involvement in the transportation of four minors (ages 15-17) and two adults from Ohio to Missouri to engage in prostitution. The plan was to come to sell the girls on Backpage.com.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Tribeca Film Institute and National Park Service Announce Winners of National Youth Film Competition The America I Am at Red Carpet Premiere on Ellis Island.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold three public information workshops in late April on proposed airspace improvements over the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Defendant One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. President: As members of the House Ways and Means Committee, we believe it is imperative that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) work for the best interest of all taxpayers, and that the taxpayers in turn have confidence in the IRS’s ability to fairly administer the tax code. This trust is...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 32-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute 15.7 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced Acting United States Attorney Abe Martinez. Tim McCoy Barton pleaded guilty July 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: DENVER - The DEA led Denver OCDETF Strike Force, including the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office, DEA and the Aurora Police Department, today arrested multiple defendants throughout Colorado and California on various drug related charges, authorities announced. The arrests were the result of a one year...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum calling for the Commerce Department to use its Section 232 authority to investigate the national security implications of U.S. steel imports...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 26 million visitors to national parks in the San Francisco Bay Area spent $823 million in local communities in 2016. That spending supported 10,497 local jobs and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of more than $1 billion. The Bay Area is also home to the most visited park in the country, Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to receive, transport and sell stolen luxury vehicles, and to commit wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: In case you missed it, please read this Orlando Sentinel column by Robert Poole, the Reason Foundation’s director of transportation policy, on the importance of a modern 21st century aviation system for America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former employee of J.E. Dunn Construction Company along with the owners of two firms charged with paying illegal kickbacks have been indicted by a federal grand jury for an $840,400 fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge and assaulting a federal officer, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Taurean Amadeus Johnson, 30, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm and assaulting a federal officer after a court appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on April 19, 2017, James E. Podolske Jr. (age: 59) of Panama City, Florida, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for violations of Title 18 United States Code 1343...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury today found an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Herlong guilty of an assault on another inmate that resulted in serious bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On April 20, 2017, defendant Xavier González-Calderon was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández to serve a term of imprisonment of 41 months as to counts 24 and 25 of the indictment to be served concurrently with each other, 3 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rumaldo Olivas, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to an 84-month prison term followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that two Mission, South Dakota, individuals have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
