News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine and distributed methamphetamine and cocaine was sentenced Aug. 22, 2017, to 13 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: To many, even the thought of a bat elicits screams.The sight of a “flittermouse" zigzagging through the night sky causes others to quickly cover their heads in the false assumption that the nighttime creature may take residence in their hair. The wild antics of people frantically swinging brooms at bats...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Construction is expected to begin this fall on a project aimed at improving fish passage through the Yolo Bypass. The Bureau of Reclamation today released the Final Initial Study/Environmental Assessment and signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Fremont Weir Adult Fish Passage Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Baltimore, Maryland men were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 9, 2017 sitting in Wheeling on bank fraud charges, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Joseph Allen Ellsworth, 32, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, was ordered to serve 14 years in federal prison for bank robbery, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney ordered Ellsworth to serve four years of supervised release following his release from prison, and pay restitution of $7,318.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - With a shared commitment to control expanding populations of noxious and invasive weeds, the Bureau of Land Management will partner with Fremont County Weed and Pest for weed treatments in the Government Draw area east of Lander.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a Memphis International Airport (MEM) checkpoint today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: The provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, NY - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), and George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Cory Danis, 28, of Rochester, New Hampshire, waived indictment by a grand jury and pleaded guilty to one count of possessing child pornography. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for December 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Three men have pleaded guilty to illegally trafficking alligator snapping turtles in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston along with the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A federal grand jury in Rockford today increased the number of fraud charges previously brought against TODD J. FENDLER, 41, of Rockford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed two complaints today seeking imposition of a civil money laundering penalty and to civilly forfeit more than $11 million from companies that allegedly acted as financial facilitators for North Korea, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Michael DeLeon, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Phoenix Field Office, and Michael J. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: MONROE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a man from Monroe was sentenced Monday to 121 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine for later sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: C. Bryan Paarmann Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterterrorism Division for the New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Oscar Garcia Garcia (33, Tampa) to 30 months in federal prison for stealing firearms from a federal firearm licensee. He pleaded guilty on May 15, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler announces that Ramiro Enriquez-Olivares, an 18 year old, resident of Robertsdale, Alabama was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration followed by two years of supervised release for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentencing judge ordered that Mr. Enriquez-Olivares be turned over to immigration authorities upon completion of his sentence for deportation proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BRANDON WILLIAMS, also known as “14K," 37, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 74 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for sex trafficking a minor girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Carraway pleaded guilty to 15 counts of the Sexual Exploitation of 12 Minor Victims to Produce Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Sami Osmakac (30, Pinellas Park) for attempted use of weapons of mass destruction and possession of a fully automatic firearm. A federal jury found him guilty in June 2014. In November 2014, U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven sentenced Osmakac to 40 years’ imprisonment.
