News from December 2017
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: Former Arkansas Legislator, Charity Executives Identified as Co-Conspirators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREVON TERRY, also known as “B.J.," 39, of Newington, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, for his role in a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA - Javel Roberts, 17, of Valdosta, Georgia, entered a guilty plea Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr., for the armed robbery of the SunTrust Bank in Garden City, Georgia, on September 7, 2017, and for brandishing a firearm during the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Rodney Phillip Aird, age 50, of Seminole, Oklahoma pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B), punishable by not less than 5 years and not more than 40 years imprisonment, and up to a $5,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a Fort Polk soldier with manufacturing and detonating a chemical weapon in the Kisatchie National Forest adjacent to the Fort Polk Army installation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: SEWARD, AK - At Kenai Fjords National Park, an Environmental Assessment (EA) evaluating alternatives to replace a cabin used for employee housing is now available for public comment. The Cottonwood Cabin was one of three “dry" cabins constructed in the mid-1980s for park employee housing at the Exit...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Gustavo Enrique Llanos Miranda (62) and Jair Mendoza Montoya (49), both of Colombia, South America, guilty of conspiring to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine on board a vessel subject...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Bosnian Human Rights Abuser Residing in North Carolina Pleads Guilty to Possession of A Fraudulently Obtained Immigration Document.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Associate of La Cosa Nostra Found Guilty of Extortion-Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: A Fayette County felon, who possessed a shotgun and ammunition in a car in June 2016, was sentenced last week to more than fifteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeking Information From a Bank Robbery Friday in Hialeah.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ISMAEL RUIZ, also known as “Papo," 51, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Statement on Amtrak Derailment. Local law enforcement partners are the primary entities responding to the Dec. 18, 2017 Amtrak derailment. The FBI is present and working with the local command post, so we are poised to offer additional resources, if needed. At this time, there is no information...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: A 14-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging three owners of independent diagnostic testing facilities in Brooklyn for their roles in an allegedly fraudulent scheme that involved submitting over $44 million in claims to Medicare and private insurers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: A Dubuque man who committed perjury before a federal grand jury was sentenced last week to more than two years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: In 2018, Capitol Reef National Park will see changes to the park entrance fee and the group camp site and to the management of the Fruita developed campground.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to modernize the agency’s organizational structure to advance its policy goals consistent with its statutory requirements.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - A Gordon, Pennsylvania man was sentenced on Dec. 18, to 156 months imprisonment for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Harrisburg and the Pennsylvania State Police.
