News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Beckley woman is latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen defendants indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation released a Finding of No Significant Impact and final Environmental Assessment for the Grand Valley Irrigation Company’s Phase IV - 540 Canal Lining Project located in Mesa County, Colorado. The project will line approximately 1.64 miles of open irrigation ditch with an impervious liner covered with shotcrete. The purpose of the project is to reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The Bureau of Land Management will gather approximately 75 wild burros starting December 19 on private land in Pahrump due to public safety concerns. The gather operation, which could last several weeks, is being conducted by the BLM’s Southern Nevada District’s Pahrump Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Pawtucket resident who admitted to selling substantial quantities of methamphetamine has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Warwick Police Chief Colonel Stephen M. McCartney; Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves; and Mickey Leadingham, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a registered sex offender in Lebanon, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), today led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging him to hold hearings on Trump’s threat to abuse his pardon power.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Beckley woman pleaded guilty today for her role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Detria S. Carter, 33, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. Carter is one of 23 defendants indicted in June 2017 after a comprehensive investigation of drug trafficking in Southern West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Augusta, GA - Vicky Vinson Capetillo, from Grovetown, Georgia, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Chief Judge J. Randal Hall to two federal felonies related to her embezzlement of nearly $900,000 from the City of Grovetown.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A Queens man was convicted Friday for enticing a 16-year-old girl to travel from abroad to engage in sexual activity. The initial arrest stemmed from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York led investigation, with assistance from the Australian Federal Police and the New York City Police Department (NYPD), which led to the recovery of the missing girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John Farley announced today that Judith Morale (formerly known as Judith Remo), 54, currently a resident of Webster, New York, has pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and collaborators are using 3-D imaging to protect newborn piglets by monitoring adult female pigs' behavior.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Actor Mark Wayne Salling today pleaded guilty to a federal offense of possessing child pornography and specifically admitted that he possessed approximately 25,000 images of children engaged in sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information for a Serial Bank Robber in Palm Beach County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - On Oct. 30, 2017, new Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, Valerie A. Nickerson, reported for duty. SAC Nickerson is replacing former SAC Carl J. Kotowski, who retired on October 27. SAC Kotowski oversaw the DEA’s New Jersey Division since April 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today announced that the committee will hold a hearing on POSTPONED Wednesday, December 20 at 2 p.m. on “Examining the Policies and Priorities of the U.S. Department of Education". The Honorable Betsy DeVos, Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, will testify at this hearing. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Iraqi Refugee Sentenced for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Two Defendants Plead Guilty to Alien Harboring Scheme Involving Labor Exploitation at Nebraska Motel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Alin Madalin Munteanu, 37, of Romania, pleaded guilty, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, to using a false passport. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Sacramento, Calif., residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury for the sex trafficking of six victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - United States District Court Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi sentenced Beei-Huan Chao, age 62, to 80 months in prison today for transporting child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252(a)(1). Chao, who was formerly employed as a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, pled guilty to the offense on May 30, 2017.
