News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: James Gonzalo Medina pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for attempting to attack an Aventura, Florida synagogue, and to a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Acting U.S. Attorney Benjamin G. Greenberg for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: She Discharged Shotgun During a Dispute.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal indictment in an ongoing investigation charging PISANU SUKHTIPYAROGE, a/k/a “Pat," 71, owner of a Thai restaurant in Columbia Heights, Minn., with one count of forced labor.[1] SUKHTIPYAROGE is scheduled to make an initial appearance on Aug. 18, 2017, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - On Monday, Aug. 21, visitors to Wyoming public lands are encouraged to practice fire safety while traveling to and viewing the solar eclipse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Janna B. Shelby, age 54, of Easley, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to wire fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks, of Greenville, accepted the plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report which will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tyler Scott Gurley, age 26, of Anderson, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville to felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge Bruce H. Hendricks accepted the plea and will impose sentence after United States Probation prepares a pre-sentence report. Gurley faces a statutory maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Jake Rupert, age 33, of Lexington, plead guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition and to being in possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, all in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that, on Aug. 16, 2017, District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson dismissed a lawsuit brought by a logging truck driver injured in a motor vehicle accident on the Yakama Indian Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: VALE, Ore. - As part of the agency goal to provide a safe and secure environment for the public, employees, and public lands users, the Bureau of Land Management’s Vale District announced preparations for the Aug. 21, 2017 total solar eclipse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Justin Wayne Pierce of Semmes, Alabama was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment. Pierce’s sentencing followed entry of a April 2017 guilty plea to a charge of prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on President Trump's executive order establishing discipline and accountability in the environmental review and permitting process for infrastructure projects.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Hydration while hiking is critical to human health-- ensure that you are drinking enough water for physical activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Springfield YMCA employee has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced today that 32 individuals have been charged in federal firearms related cases this month in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - MAURICE MORLEE JOHNSON, 37, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for child sex trafficking of 14- and 15-year-old girls, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In a related case, TONYA GAY GUM, 44, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Acting United States Attorney Robert H. Norman and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Ricky Robertson a.k.a. “Slick Rick" and Ladarius Jackson, a.k.a. “Dee Don" entered pleas of guilty today on sex trafficking charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: Two men were indicted for allegedly robbing banks in Summit County this summer, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Harinder Dhaliwal, 47, of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, who was convicted of conspiracy to export from the United States five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 240 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2017
News Release: The Student Conservation Association (SCA), the national leader in youth service and stewardship, awarded its Founder’s Medal to Olympic National Park, one of two original SCA partners and the only park to provide young SCA stewards with service opportunities in each of the past 60 years.
