News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. -- The U. S. Bureau of Land Management is accepting applications for summer seasonal firefighting jobs on northern California fire engine crews, the Diamond Mountain Interagency Hotshots and other positions, including a prescribed fire/fuels crew, dispatch, fire prevention/mitigation, helitack and fire lookout.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brad Lanese, 52, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of Using Interstate Commerce Facilities with the Intent to Commit a Murder for Hire, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that DaShown Keys, age 25, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin was found guilty of six counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child as a result of a federal jury trial in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The verdict was returned on December 7, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - To provide much needed infrastructure and services to accommodate current visitation, the Bureau of Land Management is proposing a new $6-per-vehicle fee for a day-use pass at Guffey Gorge, also known as Paradise Cove, located in Park County, Colorado. The fee would specifically go...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: In Midland today, 47-year-old bookkeeper Mary Elisa “Lisa" Salazar pleaded guilty to stealing over $1.5 million from her employer, an oil well leasing company in Midland, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Troy Caldron; and, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have sold large quantities of methamphetamine in Indiana and Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Paul Smith, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was charged yesterday by Information with mail fraud and securities fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. These charges arise from the defendant’s operation of “the Haverford Group," which the defendant promoted as a stock investment club, but which was actually a Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced two federal inmates separately for possessing weapons in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Milton man and a Connecticut woman were arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston with federal sex trafficking crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was charged today in connection with his role in two conspiracies in connection with construction projects at Picattiny Arsenal (PICA) and at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix Lakehurst (Ft. Dix) and for endeavoring to obstruct justice, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Ryan Charles McCraw, age 37, of Aurora, Colorado, was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment on charges of coercion, enticement and production of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers announced. McCraw, who is in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A former Bay Area resident was arrested yesterday in Barnstable, Massachusetts on charges related to a long-running investment fraud scheme. John Bryan Murphy was charged on Nov. 30, 2017, by a federal grand jury in San Francisco with wire fraud and money laundering announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Kevino Graham, 36, of Philadelphia was sentenced yesterday to 100 years in federal prison for sex trafficking by the Honorable C. Darnell Jones, II, United States District Court Judge, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. In addition, Judge Jones imposed a fine of $1000, a $300 special assessment, lifetime supervised release, and restitution of $641,900.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Armando Adame, age 21, from Waterloo, Iowa, has been charged with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge is contained in a complaint unsealed today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictment today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS - Following a four-day trial with testimony from fourteen government witnesses, Dimarzio Swade Sanchez, 20, of Busby, was convicted by a Montana jury of first degree murder. Sanchez will be sentenced on March 29, 2018 and faces mandatory life in prison for the murder. He also faces a $250,000 fine, and up to five years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 DHS Undertaking Critical Reorganization to Protect the Homeland WASHINGTON –Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen today announced the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Weapons of ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been rated by employees as among the top ten best places to work in the federal government, moving up two notches to come in at seventh place in the 2017 rankings. That is an improvement over 2016’s rankings, when USDA came in tied ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Two associates of the Genovese La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime family pleaded guilty today to extortion-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: United States prosecutors and investigators are recovering more than $14 million linked to two U.S. criminal cases, in which the money was laundered via Guernsey, thanks to a first-time ever sharing of forfeited assets by Guernsey officials. Guernsey is a significant offshore financial center located in the English Channel near the coast of France.
