News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms and narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad has announced that yesterday, Broderick A. Moore (age 25) was sentenced to 16 years in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for his involvement in an armed carjacking. In July 2017, a federal jury found Mr. Moore guilty of carjacking and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court in Boston yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington D.C., lawyer was sentenced today to five years in prison for distributing videos of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on Dec. 1, 2017, MODESTO TORREZ, age 35, of Angus, MN, was sentenced by Eighth Circuit Judge, sitting by designation, Ralph R. Erickson, to serve life imprisonment for his conviction of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to request that the EPA complete overdue studies assessing the impact of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) on air, water, and land quality., and below...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a $227 million project to rehabilitate Arlington Memorial Bridge, a historic and critical transportation link in the nation’s capital. As awarded, the project will save American taxpayers $35 million and 1.5 years of estimated construction time.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations scheduled a hearing for Friday, December 8, 2017, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Role of the Department of Energy in Energy Sector Cybersecurity."
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is seeking public input on the development of a vegetation and forest health plan for the Bureau’s giant sequoia groves on Case Mountain, southeast of Three Rivers. The 30-day scoping period starts Friday, Dec. 1.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced a $227 million project to rehabilitate Arlington Memorial Bridge, a historic and critical transportation link in the nation’s capital. As awarded, the project will save American taxpayers $35 million and 1.5 years of estimated construction time.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A Littlefield, Texas, resident, Luis Zubia, 36, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 135 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2017 to an indictment charging one count of enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chester man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA - Timothy Dequon Lewis, 34, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 240 months in federal prison for his role in sex trafficking eight minor children between the ages of 13 and 17.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - The BLM is hosting an open house meeting in Paris, Idaho, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, to discuss the proposed Fish Haven South Fuels Reduction Project. The meeting will be held at the School District Office Boardroom located at 39 Fielding Rd., Paris, ID 83261, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. The public is invited to attend the meeting to ask questions and learn more about the proposed project.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Ocala, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Avery Leanard Tumer (23, Leesburg) guilty of carjacking, conspiracy to commit carjacking, brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Nov. 30, 2017, Senior District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Quan Leroy Gross, age 46, of York, Pennsylvania, to 180 months’ imprisonment. Gross pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon before Judge Rambo on July 18, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, NH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Manafort Brothers, Inc. for exposing workers to mercury and respirator hazards while they dismantled a mercury boiler at a Portsmouth worksite. The Plainville, Connecticut, construction contractor faces penalties of $329,548.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Toniette Rochelle Doty, 47, of San Bernardino, Calif., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Wayne St. Aubyn Smith (50, Parrish), a/k/a Wayne Smith El-Bey, to 3 years and 10 months in federal prison for attempting to file a false lien against a federal judge. A federal jury found him guilty on July 19, 2017.
