News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned an Indictment against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Texas man was convicted by a jury Tuesday of kidnapping and driving a woman against her will from Nevada to New Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BOISE - A federal grand jury indicted three members of the Norteno gang for federal firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted John Michael Fowler, age 27, of Randallstown, Maryland, today on charges relating to the production and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury in Benton, Illinois, has charged a Franklin County, Illinois, resident with methamphetamine related offenses. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced the charges today. Carl L. Darnell was charged in a nine-count indictment with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that two Nigerian nationals have been charged with various federal offenses stemming from a business e-mail compromise scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 24-year-old Arely Brigette Ruiz to 78 months in federal prison for shooting her husband inside their residence on Fort Bliss earlier this year announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Shannon Kovaleski Admits to Making False Statements under Oath.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published a Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs) primer that showcases the resource potential of NGLs, specifically in the Appalachian region. This primer explains what NGLs are, how they are used, recent market developments, and the supporting infrastructure in the Appalachian region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 34-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for smuggling marijuana and cocaine and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Andy Gomez, a legal permanent resident from Cuba who resided in Laredo, pleaded guilty Oct. 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney William C. Lamar and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze announced today that a jury in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi has convicted two individuals of Transporting a Victim from Georgia to Mississippi to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Dec. 19, 2017, Senior U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell sentenced Jameil O. Jackson, age 38, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to 120 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released statements after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park, in partnership with the National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF), is welcoming Dr. Anastasia Christofakis, an acclaimed clarinetist and music educator, as the first Gettysburg Artist in Residence in 2018. Christofakis will spend a month on the Gettysburg battlefield, working...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that James Derrick Robertson, age 53, of Demopolis, Alabama was sentenced today after earlier pleading guilty to receiving child pornography and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Thomas Adam Lewis, 37, of Mansfield, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Renee Harris Toliver and pleaded guilty to one count of attempted production of child pornography. Lewis, who has been in federal custody since his arrest in September on related charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Paterson, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing a TD Bank in Paterson in June 2017 and an Investors Bank in Clifton, New Jersey, in July 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: In the fall of 2014, the National Park Service (NPS) began a review of entrance fees charged throughout the National Park System, in part, to bring greater consistency to fees being charged at parks of similar size and complexity. At that time, Florissant Fossil Beds engaged the public and stakeholders...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two Taunton brothers were sentenced yesterday in connection with attempting to extort and threaten violence against the co-owner of a suboxone clinic in Quincy as well as embezzling money from the clinic.
