News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marcellus Freeman, 27, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 110 months in prison on a federal firearms charge, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Jesse Redmon, a 65-year-old resident of Brewton, Alabama, was sentenced today to a probationary term of one year and received a $500.00 fine for failing to report income after claiming disability retirement from the railroad.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Rebecca S. Kanter (619-546-7304).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Salt Wash Rehabilitation Project in Arches National Park was signed by the Acting Intermountain Regional Director on Dec. 21, 2017. This decision was reached after reviewing the environmental impacts analyzed and considering public comments on the Environmental Assessment (EA) released in October.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. -U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents in Wilmington, Delaware, along with the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and Office of Export Enforcement (OEE), seized 56 riflescopes/combat optics, previously detained from a reshipping business located in Newark, Delaware, Dec. 22, 2017, following a joint enforcement action.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Englewood, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Studio City clinic and a driver for United Parcel Service have been indicted on health care fraud charges related to unnecessary - and sometimes never-performed - sleep studies that resulted in more than $11 million in bills being submitted to health care benefit programs, primarily for employees of UPS and Costco.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA- The Flagstaff Area National Monuments will close on Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. The monuments will be closed all day on Dec. 25, 2017. We will reopen on Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017 at 9:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Transportation Operator Pleads Guilty to Defrauding the State Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information From a Bank Robbery Thursday in Hialeah.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: Defendants allegedly continued to cultivate marijuana after search warrants were executed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The operator of two now-defunct medical supply companies in Hawthorne and Ventura, as well as two former employees, have been arrested on federal healthcare fraud charges for allegedly billing Medicare well over $24 million for medically unnecessary power wheelchairs (PWC) and the repair of medical equipment.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: The entrance fees will increase as follows.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is initiating environmental analyses of fuel breaks, fuels reduction and habitat restoration projects on sagebrush steppe rangelands in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Utah and California to ensure healthy, productive working landscapes and wildlife habitats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a new Assistant U.S. Attorney will be hired to combat violent crime in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Floyd Benko, age 62, of Palmyra, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 15 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane on false statement charges in connection with his performance of flawed genetic diagnostic tests for 124 cancer patients.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: SHOSHONE, Idaho - Working alongside the Shoshone BLM, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) recently implemented a fuels reduction project that would potentially reduce the risk of wildfire spreading from roadside starts along Highway 75 south of Shoshone. ITD planted over 330 acres within the right...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Michael Bickford, age 38, formerly of Perkinsville, Vermont, pled guilty on Dec. 18, 2017 in the United States District Court in Burlington to charges stemming from the December 5, 2016 armed robbery of the River Street...
By State Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that.
