News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two defendants pleaded guilty yesterday to child pornography crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Steven Lee Rhodes, 39, of Clendenin, pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. In a separate prosecution, Kenneth Frederick Stier, 29, of Spencer, entered his guilty plea to distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal charges in connection with the fatal shooting of Mohamed Bah. Mr. Bah was killed during an encounter with police officers from the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") on Sept. 25, 2012. The Acting U.S. Attorney met today with Mr. Bah’s family and their counsel to inform them of this decision.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: A Garfield Heights man was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for using a firearm to rob the Key Bank on Turney Road, said Justin E. Herdman, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Investigation leads to forfeiture of $1.6 million in assets, including classic cars.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant apprehended after high-speed chase through Wood County.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulation of Utah prairie dogs on non-federal lands.Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - In order to identify and interdict evolving trade threats that pose a risk to the national security of Hampton Roads, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) signed a memorandum of agreement Tuesday to establish the Port of Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia Trade Enforcement Coordination Center (TECC).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Defendants Misused Money Ostensibly Obtained To Fund Mortgage Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Susan Ann Villeneuve, 62, of Escalon, California, was sentenced today on international fraud charges that started in 2014 when sixteen individuals were arrested in South Africa, Canada, California, Wisconsin, New York and Indiana, pursuant to an eight-count federal indictment filed in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage has returned an indictment charging Timmy Lloyd Inga, 55, of Anchorage, with being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Inga was previously convicted of a misdemeanor domestic assault charge in 2015 and he is therefore prohibited under federal law from possessing a firearm or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Bradford, 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 22, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A St. Marys, West Virginia man pled guilty today to a methamphetamine distribution charge, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Matthew Anthony Keller, 25, of Watauga, Texas, was sentenced this morning before Senior U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 240 months in federal prison on a federal child pornography charge, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
Release: DURANGO, Colo. -The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm at the security screening checkpoint Aug. 20 at Durango-La Plata County Airport (DRO).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Defendant faked doctor notes and planned to lie about sickness until her retirement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama-Today, Tariq Khalil Jones, 35, of Tuskegee, Alabama, was sentenced to life in federal prison plus 282 years for committing numerous armed robberies and a carjacking, announced A. Clark Morris, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Join volunteers across the nation on Saturday, Sept. 30, taking part in National Public Lands Day, the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nigel Garrett, 21, and Cameron Ajiduah, 18, pleaded guilty today to assaulting men because of the victim’s sexual orientation, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Texas, and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Dallas Division announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: A new study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows scientifically for the first time that an individual’s ability to respond quickly to a residential fire determines who dies and who gets injured. Home fire deaths, the NIST researchers state, are more likely among those they define as frail populations-persons who are not in robust health and primarily age 65 and older-while nonfatal injuries occur more often in adults ages 20 to 49.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -A Tuscaloosa man pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbery of a federally insured bank and taking of hostages during the robbery in the Northern District of Alabama.
