News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that STEVEN DON WALLIS, age 30, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR OR WARD IN INDIAN COUNTRY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153 and 2243(a), punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 21 indictments charging 24 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By State Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the U.S. Treasury announced new sanctions on the government of Venezuela...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Volkswagen Engineer Sentenced for His Role in Conspiracy to Cheat U.S. Emissions Tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Peter Farnum, age 41, of Ballston Lake, New York, was indicted yesterday for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Clayton John Shinn, age 27, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Waymart, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to assault on Aug. 24, 2017, before United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Jose Castillo Febles, 30, of Doral, Florida pleaded guilty today; and Juan Carlos Febles, 52, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Briana Fugate, 27, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., who was convicted of bribery, distribution of marijuana, and delay of mail, was sentenced to 12 months by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California - Over four weeks have passed since searchers began looking for Rachel Nguyen and Joseph Orbeso, a couple who disappeared in Joshua Tree National Park. With thousands of hours of search time by hundreds of searchers resulting in few leads, the National...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Jamie P. Esposito (32, Orlando) to 75 years in federal prison for producing and possessing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on March 29, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to approve a series of annual transfers of available water supplies between Arvin-Edison Water Storage District and Westside Mutual Water Company over a 10-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that STEVEN DON WALLIS, age 30, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to SEXUAL ABUSE OF A MINOR OR WARD IN INDIAN COUNTRY, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1153 and 2243(a), punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: On Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, Representatives John Conyers, Jr., Sander Levin, Dan Kildee, Debbie Dingell, and Brenda Lawrence, filed an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill to prevent Federal funds from being used to implement key sections of President ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two Yarmouthport brothers, a Dominican national, and a Boston man were charged with running a large-scale heroin and fentanyl trafficking operation in Boston and on Cape Cod. Hundreds of fentanyl pills designed to look like oxycodone pills were allegedly trafficked by the defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Reginald Kevin Winford (26, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) today sent a letter with several colleagues to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke urging him to allow the National Academy of Sciences...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: CLARSKBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Greenwood, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 81 months incarceration for illegal possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: As Hurricane Harvey impacts Texas, the Department of Energy (DOE) is closely monitoring energy infrastructure impacts and coordinating across the federal community, state and local governments, and with industry partners. DOE emergency responders are now staffing the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim Multiple Times in Mid-Day Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that NOLAN CASON, age 26, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to two counts of felon in possession of a firearm.
