News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-The FBI Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking the public’s assistance to help identify two men suspected of robbing Arizona Federal Credit Union at 5485 West Northern Avenue, Glendale, Arizona, around 11:18 this morning, Dec. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Today, led by Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Judiciary Committee Democratic Representatives Shelia Jackson Lee (D-TX), Ted Deutch (D-FL), David Cicilline (D-RI), Ted Lieu (D-CA), and Jamie Raskin(D-MD) released the following joint statement expressing their strong opposition to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) proposed Section 702 legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Nghia Hoang Pho, age 67, of Ellicott City, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to willful retention of national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that on November...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Ruston man was sentenced Thursday to 24 months in prison for cyberstalking a woman and posting nude pictures of her on various websites.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. -Joseph David Dial, Jr., 52, Belton, Mo., is charged in a federal indictment unsealed today with four counts of major program fraud against the United States and four counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. The indictment alleges during the period from in or about August...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ The 45-year-old owner of Penitas Family Pharmacy has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Omar Espericueta, of Palmhurst, pleaded guilty today, joining co-defendant Oscar Elizondo, 47, of Pharr, who pleaded guilty on Wednesday.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources, raised concerns to U.S. President ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Pittsburgh’s North Side has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on two charges, both being federal firearm violations, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
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 Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - On Dec. 7, the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office will hold its quarterly oil and gas lease sale using the internet-based auction system EnergyNet. Each parcel will have its own unique open bidding period beginning at 9 a.m. MST, with the complete bidding process expected to last a total of two hours.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - President Trump is expected to travel to Utah on Monday and announce plans to modify the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. President Trump’s actions - which are illegal and will face a series of court challenges - are based on blatant falsehoods and misrepresentations of the legal history and monument designation process.
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), and Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), ranking member of the EPW committee, sent a letter to General Services Administration (GSA) Public Building Service Commissioner Dan Mathews regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) headquarters.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Five men have been indicted on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - Wildlife need winter habitat to survive eastern Idaho’s harsh winter climate. To support wildlife survival rates, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Upper Snake Field Office closed the Stinking Springs area near the popular South Fork of the Snake River to all motorized vehicles and human entry beginning Dec. 1, 2017. The closure remains in effect through sunrise May 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: PITTSBUGRH - One resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal robbery laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Wells Field Office working with Trout Unlimited, the Nevada Department of Wildlife, and private landowners is proposing a stream habitat restoration project for approximately 1,400 feet of Dry Creek, a tributary to Salmon Falls Creek in northeastern Elko County, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside man who sold a powerful opioid very similar to fentanyl to a friend - who then suffered a fatal overdose from the narcotic - has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2017
News Release: Virginia Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Sex Trafficking 15-Year-Old Girl.
