News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Comprehensive narcotics investigation resulted in indictment of nearly two dozen defendants.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mexican national in the country illegally, who has a prior conviction for sexual assault on a minor, is among 101 foreign nationals taken into custody during a five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) last week in New Jersey, targeting at-large criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal firearms and drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Andries Snyman, 43, who is from South Africa and working in Isabel, South Dakota, was convicted of Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet following a three-day federal jury trial held in U.S. District Court in Rapid City. The guilty verdict was returned on December 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Includes Stipulated 12-Year Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Beckley man pleaded guilty today for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Dominic J. Copney, 24, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine and more than 100 grams of heroin. Copney is one of 23 defendants indicted in June 2017 after a long-term investigation of drug trafficking in Southern West Virginia.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Actor Mark Wayne Salling pleaded guilty Monday to a federal offense of possessing child pornography and specifically admitted that he possessed approximately 25,000 images of children engaged in sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo denied former Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro’s latest appeal regarding his 2011 conviction on multiple public corruption charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyleek Deramus, age 19, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in prison for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - An officer with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) discovered a loaded firearm in the carry-on baggage of a male passenger traveling from Idaho Falls Regional Airport (IDA) to Phoenix/Mesa Gateway Airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
Release: GREEN BAY, Wis.-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to implement new carry-on baggage security procedures at Green Bay-Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB). The new rules will be fully implemented after the first of the year.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Data found on a suspect’s computer, cell phone or tablet can prove to be crucial evidence in a legal case. A new set of software tools developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aims to make sure this digital evidence will hold up in court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Summit, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact of a Person Incapable of Consent was sentenced on December 4, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: FBI Looks to Public for Assistance in Identifying Armed Serial Bank Robber; Responsible for Five Area Bank Robberies.
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of a resolution reaffirming the strategic partnership between the United States and Canada (H.Res.357 )...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced $18.5 million in new Department of Energy (DOE) funding for an offshore wind research and development (R&D) consortium that will conduct U.S.-specific research aimed at reducing the cost of offshore wind in the U.S. This consortium...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Idrissa Koita, 45 of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 24 months in prison, announced Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Louis D. Lappen.
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Rep. Randy Hultgren (R-IL), Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission; and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global...
