News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Musician Will Oldham - who performs under the name Bonnie “Prince" Billy - and his wife, textile artist Elsa Hansen Oldham, have been selected as the January 2018 Artists-in-Residence at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: An Oklahoma man was arrested yesterday after being charged by indictment with receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS - John Thomas Giblin, III, a 45-year-old resident of Frenchtown, was sentenced today to 108 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters handed down the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Joseph James Belmont (28, Tampa) to seven years and eight months in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the guns and ammunition used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Munia Parvin, a/k/a Zarrin Hoque (46, Sarasota), to 6 months in federal prison for obtaining U.S. citizenship through false and misleading representations to U.S. immigration authorities. She pleaded guilty on Sept. 26, 2017. The Court also entered an order denaturalizing Parvin and stripping her of her United States citizenship; she is now subject to deportation to Bangladesh.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
Release: ARLINGTON, Va. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is partnering with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LAMTA) on a new device that can help officials detect whether an individual is concealing an improvised explosive device.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: We are on the cusp of a historic moment. Right now, we are closer than we’ve been in more than three decades to overhauling our nation’s outdated and burdensome tax system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a jury convicted 54-year-old Geoffrey Comstock, owner and operator of the Frio Nevado Corporation (Frio Nevado), for overbilling the City of San Antonio by more than $500,000 for janitorial services at the Alamodome announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Birmingham man of sexually exploiting a five-year-old boy by forcing the child to perform sexual acts on him in 2016 and videotaping the conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Two current Detroit Police Department Officers and four retired Detroit Police Department Officers have been charged with extortion for accepting bribes from owners of automobile collision shops in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to their shops, acting United States Attorney aniel L. Lemisch announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Dec. 12, 2017, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Kyle Heller, age 29, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, to five years’ imprisonment for a felony firearms offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Knoxville, Tennessee, resident today admitted recruiting individuals to cash fraudulent money orders that he received from a former South Jersey U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: UPDATE - 12/13/17: Today, A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment against Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya. He is charged with one count of providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists which carries a possible sentence of up to 15 years in federal prison. He is also charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NESTOR SANTANA, also known as “Beans," 30, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 62 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin that contributed to two overdose deaths in May 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Hargan and Administrator Verma...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office is offering firewood permits for ponderosa pine logs to the public following work to clear the Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s right-of-way corridor west of Dolores.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - After an eight-day jury trial, a South Texas businessman was convicted Wednesday of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that on Dec. 13, 2017 in Federal court, WILLIAM SCOTT DAVIS, JR., a 57-year-old resident of Hampton, Virginia, was convicted following a three-day trial before Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt. The jury found DAVIS guilty of cyberstalking and communicating interstate threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr. United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that on Dec. 13, 2017 in Federal court, WILLIAM SCOTT DAVIS, JR., a 57-year-old resident of Hampton, Virginia, was convicted following a three-day trial before Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt. The jury found DAVIS guilty of cyberstalking and communicating interstate threats.
