News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Benjamin Rogers, 32, formerly of Newmarket, New Hampshire, was sentenced to serve 138 months in prison after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl to a woman who died from using the drug.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse will cross the continental United States. The total solar eclipse will travel from Oregon to South Carolina and cross over 21 national park units and 7 trails. Here on the Keweenaw Peninsula, we will have a 71% eclipse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 32-year-old Pharr man has been ordered to prison for the hostage taking of two Honduran Nationals, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury deliberated less than 45 minutes before convicting Jesus Manuel Ramirez on April 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Laredoan and a Mexican National have been convicted for their roles in possessing with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana, announced DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Houston Division, Steven Whipple and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Defendant Referenced Organized Crime Ties When Threatening to Interfere with Construction Projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: PHH Corp. PHH Mortgage Corp. and PHH Home Loans (collectively, PHH) have agreed to pay the United States $74,453,802 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Jashawn Bailey, 30, of St. Thomas, was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez also sentenced Bailey to serve three years of supervised release, pay a $100 special assessment, and perform 350 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: FBI’s Violent Crimes Task Force Seeks Identity of the One Minute Bandit.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: SOLAR ECLIPSE VIEWING PARTY AT LAKE MEAD AUG 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Voviette D. Morgan Named Special Agent in Charge of the Criminal Division for the Los Angeles Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The National Park Service (NPS) is cooperating with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as part of a national traffic safety campaign to reduce impaired driving on roads in Acadia National Park. Beginning on August 10 and continuing through the fall, park rangers will...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: A man who robbed a bank and led police on a high speed chase pled guilty on August 7, 2017, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Proposes Entrance Fee Increase.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On July 22, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced that the National Park Service is teaming up with partners across the nation to distribute more than $50 million in high priority maintenance and infrastructure projects at 42 parks in 29 states, including $143,733 at...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has charged Nelash Das, age 25, a citizen of Bangladesh previously residing in Landover Hills, Maryland, with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization; attempting...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging Arash Amiri Abedian, 31, and Danial Jeloudar, 27, with aggravated identity theft; wire fraud; and criminal conspiracy and other charges relating to access device fraud, unauthorized access to, and theft of information from, computers, and threatening to damage a computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Grand Valley, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging...
