News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jeremy Lynn McGrew, age 36, of Springdale, was sentenced today to 75 months in federal prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release on one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following opening statement at a full Committee hearing on U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and U.S. Representatives Elijah Cummings (MD-07) and Maxine Waters (CA-43) will hold a press conference TODAY, Thursday, December 7 to discuss the importance of research funding and highlight...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Portage, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
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: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jesus Torres, age 39, of Pasco, Washington, was sentenced on two counts of distribution and possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Senior United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: APOPKA, FL-A team of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested four men outside Iberia Bank, 1420 West Orange Blossom Trail in Apopka, Florida, shortly after 11 a.m. this morning, December 7, 2017. The four men were arrested without incident and will make their initial appearance in federal court Friday, December 8, 2017.
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: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Lawrence Gerard Nassar, 54, of Holt, Michigan, was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison for child-pornography and obstruction-of-justice offenses, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff ordered the federal sentence to be served consecutive...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Zebedee Cleo Adams, age 37, of Saluda, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Greenville for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). United States District Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks of Charleston sentenced Adams to 71 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee, Director Wray. Earlier this week, in a message to your agents and employees, you gave us your vision of what the FBI is supposed to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a woman to five years in prison for bilking an elderly suburban man out of $4.1 million through a telephone sweepstakes scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas -Rogelio Xochitl Amparan, 29, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 189 months in federal prison terms for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 40-year-old Jose Juan Quinones Avila of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, to 57 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and money laundering announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division; and, Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, United States Postal Inspection Service, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two associates of the Genovese La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime family pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to extortion-related charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to announce their December 14 open meeting agenda and in response to recent calls to delay the vote on restoring internet freedom.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston dentist who falsely billed West Virginia Medicaid and West Virginia Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) for more than $700,000 was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Antoine Skaff, 58, previously pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 180 months imprisonment, followed by seven years supervised release, on a charge of sex trafficking of a child, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: Illegally Sold Firearms Over the Internet; Underreported More than $10 Million.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt regarding the agency’s mission, his “Back to Basics’ concept, and his efforts to refocus the agency on pursuing its important public health and environmental missions as Congress originally intended.
