News from August 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: DENVER - A Colorado woman was sentenced last week by to 20 years in federal prison for producing child pornography while sexually abusing an infant.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: PRESS CONFERENCE. INDIANAPOLIS-United States Attorney Josh Minkler will hold a press conference tomorrow, August 7, 2017, at 10am in the Plainfield Town Courtroom, 1075 W. Main Street, Plainfield, Indiana. Minkler will be discussing charges in the 2015, Plainfield-area cyber threats case which resulted...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is requesting a review of the implementation of safety and security measures at Job Corps centers following new disciplinary policies that were announced last summer after numerous incidents of misconduct and violence, including the murder of a 21-year-old student...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay, today a federal jury convicted Laroy Damont Johnson, 37, of Dallas, of drug and firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two former deputies with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office were sentenced today for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
Release: BENNER TOWNSHIP, Pa. - The Transportation Security Administration has installed the latest checkpoint screening technology equipment at University Park Airport (UNV).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: On Sunday, June 18th, Cathlyn Weir of Cedar Hill, TX, died while hiking in Big Bend National Park. South Plains Forensic Pathology of Lubbock, TX, determined the cause of death to be environmental hyperthermia.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Members of four United States House of Representatives Committees sent a letter to Keith Hall, Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), requesting a revised cost estimate for H.R. 2997, the “21st Century AIRR Act", as posted by the Committee on Rules. The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Conspiracy Was Conducted Through Social Media and Encrypted Messaging Applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Eric Erb, a former investment adviser, pleaded guilty earlier today to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud investors utilizing his Babylon, New York-based investment advising business. Erb entered his guilty plea before United States Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields at the federal courthouse...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Florida resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl and a quantity of carfentanil, and distribution of quantities of methamphetamine, carfentanil, and ecstasy, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Santiago Aveles, 31, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty on Aug. 4, 2017, in federal court to charges arising out of a scheme to obtain immigration status for foreign nationals through fraudulent marriages.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Braverman (619) 546-6717.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy, bank fraud, and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have extorted and made death threats to minor victims, and to use explosive devices at Plainfield and Danville High Schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New York Division; Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, and Stephen M. Schenning, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced today that Tae H. Kim, age 47 of Wayne, Pennsylvania, entered a guilty plea to separate bank fraud charges filed in the District of Delaware and the District of Maryland, respectively.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Justice Retail today raising a series of questions regarding reports that one of the company’s cosmetic products marketed to kids and teens, Just Shine Shimmer Powder, contained high levels of the known human carcinogen asbestos...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Justice Retail today raising a series of questions regarding reports that one of the company’s cosmetic products marketed to kids and teens, Just Shine Shimmer Powder, contained high levels of the known human carcinogen asbestos...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Justice Retail today raising a series of questions regarding reports that one of the company’s cosmetic products marketed to kids and teens, Just Shine Shimmer Powder, contained high levels of the known human carcinogen asbestos...
