News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Shelley L. Bovee, age 63, of Gloversville, New York, was sentenced today to 3 years of probation for dealing firearms without a license.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Tyler C. Amon, Special Agent in Charge of EPA’s Criminal Investigation Division in New England, announced that STEPHEN CRAIG, 66, of Essex, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to six months...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and two other high-ranking Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter today to Keith Hall, director of the Congressional Budget Office, requesting a reassessment of how much revenue a Republican effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling could realistically generate. The letter is available at.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Sean McChord O’Donnell pled guilty to charges of racketeering, involving the use of interstate facilities to promote prostitution occurring between November 2016 and January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -A former resident of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, was charged with conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Brett A. Harvey, who is handling the case, stated that, in May 2011, an Immigration Judge of the Executive Office of Immigration Review was conducting removal proceedings against George Boley, the former head of the Liberian Peace Council during the Liberian Civil War in the 1990s.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are holding a hearing this morning to justify Secretary Ryan Zinke’s efforts to drastically reorganize the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) without Congressional or public support. Secretary Zinke has been vocal about his plans to shift more department resources and personnel from Washington, D.C. to field offices across the country, but has not shared the scope and details of his plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Vincent M. Torraco, 26, of Athol, Massachusetts, was sentenced to serve 43 months in federal prison for a series of bank robberies that occurred in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: An enrolled member of the Quinault Indian Nation was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release for rape of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. DEVELIN L. HOWTOPAT, 33, pleaded guilty in December 2016, admitting that he sexually molested a young child...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Saul Cerros, 36, of Northglenn, Colo., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 121 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. Cerros will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A former Chief Financial Officer for a Beckley lumber company who embezzled over $800,000 pleaded guilty yesterday, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. James Matthew Miller, 42, entered his guilty plea to two counts of wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council will meet Wednesday, Dec. 20 at the Mesa County Central Services Building in Grand Junction, 200 S. Spruce St., Room 40.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Houston man was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for possessing with intent to distribute cocaine after the drug was found in his car.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. -- The Bureau of Land Management California Desert District is currently accepting applications for 2018 summer seasonal firefighting jobs. There are positions available for fire engine crew members, helicopter crew members, dispatchers and fire prevention/mitigation personnel located in southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Maria Angelica Cruz Lancheros, a/k/a Coral Marisol Tovar Flores, age 41, and a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty today to illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Assaults on Tribal Land Prosecuted in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Two women will serve a year each of supervised probation for assaulting a man in Grand Canyon National Park in October. Kyrah Kaska and Starlivia Kaska pleaded guilty to Simple Assault and were recently sentenced in federal court. They are also banned from the park and are prohibited from possessing weapons.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department (NCPD) Officer Michael Slager, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today for his commission of a federal civil rights offense during his fatal shooting of Walter Scott, Jr. on April 4, 2015. This sentence resulted from the Court’s...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
Release: During the fall 2017 semester, the FAS Faculty Exchange Program hosted 14 veterinarians from universities in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania. Over the course of four months, the academics collaborated with faculty mentors in the veterinary schools at Michigan State University and Iowa State University, developing new curricula and taking away best teaching practices to implement in their home countries.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
