News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Joseph Towner, Jr., 32, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve a total of 32 years in federal prison for armed robbery, announced Acting U. S. Attorney Harold H. Brittain. Towner previously pled guilty to two counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. He was sentenced to 84 months in prison on the first count, and 300 months in prison on the second count, for a total of 32 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Twenty-six suspected drug traffickers with ties to East Alabama were arrested in a joint federal, state, and local narcotics investigation, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and A. Clark Morris, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Thirteen suspects were arrested on federal narcotics and money laundering charges. An additional thirteen suspects were arrested on state narcotics charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Tyler C. Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New England, announced that STEPHEN CRAIG, 66, of Essex, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of making a false statement to the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Philadelphia, Pa., was sentenced to 24 months in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine as part of a group that operated in several locations throughout the country, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Benjamin Katz (619) 546-9604, Andrew Young (619) 546-7981 and Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found Colin Lovette Bosby, 50, of Bakersfield, guilty today of one count of receiving child pornography and two counts of possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The trial was held before Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Mexican nationals convicted of attempting to import crystal methamphetamine from Mexico have been ordered to federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Juan Jose Acevedo-Azua, 38, and Veronica Rios-Rojas, 37, pleaded guilty Aug. 8 and 10, 2016, respectively.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Skagway - Join Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park on Aug. 11, 2017, from 10:00-11:00 am at the park visitor center for a special guest program on African American Soldiers.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced full Senate approval of J. Christopher Giancarlo to serve as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Rostin Behnam and Brian D. Quintenz to serve as Commissioners of the CFTC. The Senate unanimously approved the nominees.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Joseph Towner, Jr., was sentenced to a total of 32 years following his March guilty pleas to two counts of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, robbery, by District Judge Sul Ozerden, Acting U. S. Attorney Harold H. Brittain announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Drug trafficking investigation led to multiple prison sentences totaling over 90 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lake Charles man was sentenced Wednesday to 130 months in prison for distributing cocaine and possessing firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement that it is proposing to add the Newark South Groundwater Plume site in Newark, Delaware to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites.
By State Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) today praised Senate Foreign Relations Committee passage of legislation demanding the Palestinian Authority end its policy of rewarding terrorism. The Taylor Force Act, legislation introduced by Graham and Corker this week, would ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, and Georgia Attorney General Christopher M. Carr announced today a civil settlement with The Medical Center of Central Georgia, Inc., d/b/a The Medical Center, Navicent Health (“Navicent"). Navicent agreed to pay to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA- Eugene Allen (aka “Poncho"), 41, who is currently serving a life sentence for murder, was one of 20 defendants indicted earlier this week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia for allegedly operating a drug trafficking organization in Chatham County and elsewhere.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate today passed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, by a vote of 94-1, following the House’s passage of the bill last month.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate today passed H.R. 2430, the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017, by a vote of 94-1, following the House’s passage of the bill last month.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after his right to try bill passed the Senate unanimously Thursday...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed two of President Trump’s nominees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
