News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bakersfield Police Department, the United States Attorney’s Office, the California Department of Justice, the California Highway Patrol, and the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced the result of a multi-agency operation...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Central California District is accepting applications for 2018 summer seasonal wildland firefighting jobs. There are fire positions available for hotshot, handcrew and engine crew members; heavy equipment operators; dispatchers and prevention/mitigation personnel based in Bakersfield, Bishop, Placerville and Porterville.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Larry Johnson announces today that the public comment period for the Preliminary Alternatives for the Roads and Trails Management Plan will be extended through Jan. 15, 2018. This one-month extension of the comment period will allow additional...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Patricia Parsons, 50, of Brighton, Tennessee, was sentenced to sixty months in federal prison for aiding and abetting solicitation to commit kidnapping. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON GOMEZ, also known as “B.I.," 41, of Uncasville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor and heroin distribution offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago-area man was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for manufacturing illegal steroids and distributing them to dozens of customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Akayed Ullah Charged With Terrorism and Explosives Charges in Connection With the Detonation of a Bomb in New York City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Carrie Lynn Johnson, 42, pleaded guilty yesterday to obtaining controlled substances by fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A Boise federal grand jury indicted Johnson on Sept. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Individuals and entities associated with Med-Fast Pharmacy, Inc. (“Med-Fast") have resolved criminal and civil charges associated with Med-Fast’s improper submission of claims to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today held a business meeting to advance two of President Trump’s nominees for the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to the Senate floor:
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Special Agents with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) are seeking witnesses who may have information about a recent human-caused fire that damaged cabins in the Elkmont Historic District of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Sicklerville, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to steal and convert over 100 blank U.S. Postal Service (USPS) money orders, resulting in nearly $100,000 in losses, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General of the United States, Joon H. Kim, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana J. Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: The FBI’s Milwaukee Division and the Milwaukee, WI Police Department Robbery Task Force are asking for the public’s help to identify several men alleged to have been involved in a series of armed robberies in Wisconsin within a three day period last March. The men are believed to live in Indianapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - An Elko, Nevada cardiologist was arrested today on 39-charges of unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada, Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding Facility will reopen with a wild horse adoption event on Jan. 5-6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. The adoption will include approximately 60 female horses of various ages, which were recently gathered in the Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin herd management areas. The event is in keeping with the BLM’s commitment to finding good homes for healthy wild horses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - An Erie, Pennsylvania man, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie, on charges of use of a false visa, following an investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Pittsburg and U.S. Border Patrol.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Emma Carter-Alexander, 66, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to one year in prison and ordered to pay $298,168.20 in restitution for converting public money to her own use, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Hampton man with distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant also facing state charges of sexual assault on a child.
