News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A complaint has been filed in federal court charging Ross Gordon Laverty with mailing an explosive device with the intent to injure or kill, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Dec. 20, 2017, Chief United States District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland sentenced Lonnie Dale Spotted Bear, 73, Twin Buttes, ND, to serve 30 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release for multiple child molestation offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A complaint has been filed in federal court charging Ross Gordon Laverty with mailing an explosive device with the intent to injure or kill, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, U.S. Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Cypress man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of coercion and enticement of a minor, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Christopher Ray Nunes pleaded guilty June 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Fredrick Brown, age 35, of Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 19, 2017, by a federal grand jury on sex and drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that ANDRE REED, 25, of Waterbury, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with heroin distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, released the following statement after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) held a last minute, confidential meeting with Members of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees to interview FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Eddie Junior Pena, age 23, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 20, 2017, by a federal grand jury for unlawful possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Following a three-day trial before the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, a jury found Eloy “Chino" Alonzo, 31, of Sweetwater, Tennessee, guilty of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking. Sentencing is set for 2:00 pm, April 26, 2018, in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Stafford man today of drug and firearms offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: CATALINA, Ariz. - A southern Arizona man was sentenced Wednesday to 340 years in prison for sexual exploiting a minor under 15 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul Creager, 39, of Wildwood, pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud in connection with the sale of equity in his construction business. Creager appeared before U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel, and admitted to misrepresenting the financial health of his company in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The former owner of 1st Class Sleep Diagnostic Center and 1st Class Medical, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Jeremy Craig Traylor (32, St. Cloud) to 60 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on October 6, 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2017-With the year drawing to a close, the U.S. Department of agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is preparing for 2018 with renewed vigor, building on its scientific and technological accomplishments to date-from a food nutrient database that consumers can access with the click of a mouse to a natural tire rubber made from guayule, a small flowering shrub native to the southwestern United States.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior has extended the deadline for applications to serve as secretariat of the United States Semiquincentennial Commission. The new deadline of Feb. 28, 2018, provides nonprofit organizations an additional 60 days to submit an application.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dr. Raymond Kraynak, age 60, of Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 20, 2017, in a 19-count indictment charging the unlawful...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: US Park Rangers of Death Valley National Park and Special Agents with the National Park Service (NPS) Investigative Services Branch are seeking the public’s help with identifying those responsible for recent vandalism and trespass at Devils Hole.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Birmingham man to 10 years in prison on separate counts of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, including a 2016 incident in which police recovered 31 firearms after he barricaded himself and three other people inside a house to avoid arrest.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revised its Advisory Circular (AC) entitled Access to Airports by Individuals with Disabilities to ensure airport operators of civil use airports comply with the laws and regulations pertaining to individuals with disabilities.
