News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on December 15th, 2017, FERNANDO LAUDE SAYASAYA, was extradited to the United States and will face state child sexual abuse charges that were filed in Cass County District Court in December of 2002. The charges allege the offenses took place between July 1995 and June 1997 for one victim and June 1997 through August 1998 for another victim.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - In keeping with the Department’s goal of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Wyoming quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 41 of the 45 parcels offered.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Isidro Diaz-Sanchez (31), a Mexican national, to 30 months in federal prison for illegally reentering into the United States after deportation, and for failing to register as a sex offender. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: By Jay Town, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. The former Marine Corps officer, and career prosecutor, was nominated by President Trump in June and confirmed by the Senate, and thereafter sworn, in August.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Kick off the New Year with a visit to your favorite beach. Cape Lookout National Seashore and their authorized passenger ferry concessioner, Island Express Ferry Service, LLC are pleased to welcome the public to the first lighthouse climb of the year on Monday, Jan. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: FBI Atlanta Arrests Fugitive Charged in Double Murder.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura A. Higgins, who is handling the case, stated that on two occasions on June 8, 2016, Buffalo Police Department Investigators completed controlled undercover purchases of Alprazolam, a Schedule IV controlled substance, and Buprenorphine from Nelson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fled to Georgia and Was Apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man was arrested and charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Gary Peter Borak, 50, formerly of the Pelham, New Hampshire area, was sentenced to two years in prison for participating in a tax evasion scheme, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Kaufman man, Danny Hall, 51, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 123 months in federal prison for committing multiple bank robberies, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service announced today that the public will be invited to experience all national parks, including Carlsbad Caverns National Park, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after she, along with all of the Republican conferees for H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, signed and unveiled the final conference committee report for the bill. The conference report includes two titles: the first to provide ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 90 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and methadone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman recognized nine employees of the Southern District of Ohio in four categories for their distinguished public service in his second annual United States Attorney’s Awards in Outstanding Performance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An accountant/bookkeeper at a Boston-based company was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with stealing approximately $588,000 of her employer’s funds.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Terrell Churchwell, 27, of Muskegon, Michigan was sentenced to 120 months (10 years) in federal prison for firearm offenses, U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a 3-year term of supervised release that will commence once Churchwell is released from imprisonment.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Two Lorain County men were charged in federal court for crime related to the trafficking of opioids, law enforcement officials said.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Richard Luthmann Lured Victim to His Law Office Where Two of His Co-Defendants Extorted Victim at Gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quashad Maurante Pugh, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 5, 2017 on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.