News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced CHRISTOPHER DARNELL EVANS, 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 200, the “Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act." Introduced by Chairman Emeritus Don Young (R-AK), the bill reauthorizes and modernizes the Magnuson-Stevens Act by implementing regional flexibility, tailored management practices and improved data collection for America’s federal fisheries.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Stowe, Pennsylvania man was indicted, on Dec. 13, by a federal grand jury for offenses involving the exploitation of a minor, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel A. Mendoza, 20, a non-Indian man from Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jaime Marquez-Venancio, age 50, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (76 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - As part of its commitment to support working landscapes across the West, the Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office is seeking public comments on its environmental assessment for C&J Gravel’s proposal to expand the Montoya Gravel Pit in the Grandview area near Durango.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tion Makeise Foster, 22, of Point Arena, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: A Warren man was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for having a kilogram of heroin and firearms, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and Warren Police Chief Eric Merkel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Anaheim, California, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for laundering money on behalf of an international drug trafficking organization, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
Release: Dallas, TX-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today announced new carry-on baggage security procedures at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). The new procedures are currently being rolled out at the airport and will be fully implemented after the first of the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that earlier today Federal, state, and local law enforcement conducted a large-scale enforcement action targeting a criminal conspiracy distributing methamphetamine in the Eastern District of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LIONEL ALLEN, a/k/a “Lot," age 23, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act “RICO" as well as firearms conspiracy, and murder charges. U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a former Chicago Police officer to five years in prison for notifying a high school friend that he was the target of a federal drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a former Chicago Police officer to five years in prison for notifying a high school friend that he was the target of a federal drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 12, 2017, Morris Singer, 54, of Kayenta, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 37 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Singer had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant Owned High-Stakes Poker Rooms in Brooklyn and Extorted Player Who Fled the Country to Escape Gambling Debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: West Virginia Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Failing to Pay Employment Taxes.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted the broad-based economic and environmental opposition to H.R. 200, today’s highly partisan rewrite of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which governs fisheries and fishing quotas across U.S. waters. The GOP bill is opposed by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, yesterday, a federal jury in Fairbanks convicted a former Fort Wainwright soldier of distribution and transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Bloods Gang Member Sentenced for Federal Racketeering and Drug Offenses.
