News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Kirk Howard and Saint Paul Police Chief Todd Axtell today announced a federal indictment charging six members of a Saint Paul criminal street gang known as the HAM Crazy for conspiring to illegally possess firearms.1
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Slater Washburn Swartwood, Sr., of Louisiana, has been charged with money laundering for his role in a fraud scheme that involved $3 million in illegal bribe and kickback payments, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Shenandoah West Moneypenny, 34, of Gladewater, Texas, and Shawn Dale Sanders, 43, of Dallas, Texas, remain in federal custody on a federal criminal complaint for the sex trafficking of a 13-year-old female, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tyler Wayne Jones, age 24, of Vian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years probation for Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2314 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Gulch and Howard’s Fires burned 840 acres in 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is implementing changes to its Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) program in multiple phases over the next two years. As discussed with CUA permit holders at the annual spring CUA meetings in March 2017, the park’s CUA program will move from a flat annual fee to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jui Chih Hsu, M.D., an internist in Elkton, has agreed to pay the United States $1,222,222.00 to settle claims that she submitted false claims to the United States for medically unnecessary injections and evaluation and management services that were not documented.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host its first Artist in Residence for the Dalton Highway next summer.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: NORMAN, OK - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro adoption and sale event in Mercedes, Texas, on Jan. 12-13, 2018. The two-day event at the Rio Grande Valley Livestock Showgrounds will feature 35 wild horses and burros. The event will take place from noon - 6 p.m. on Friday...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, long-time Bonanno crime family member Vincent Asaro was sentenced by United States District Judge Allyne R. Ross to 96 months’ imprisonment for violating the Travel Act by using a telephone to order that a vehicle be burned. Asaro previously pled guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the conviction of ADAM JOHN BURKE, 33, ABDIRAHIN KHALIF IBRAHIM, 26, and DANA ENOCH KIDD, 36, for their roles in a multi-million dollar insurance fraud conspiracy. BURKE, IBRAHIM, and KIDD were initially indicted on Dec. 20, 2016, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Rock Hudson Williams, also known as “Rocky," 60, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting the distribution of crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Jason Alexander Bigler, 46, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 252 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for knowingly distributing child pornography of children under the age of 12. Bigler is a registered sex offender because of a prior federal conviction of possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A criminal complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today charging two Romanian nationals with a conspiracy to illegally access approximately 123 computers associated with Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) surveillance cameras and to use those computers in connection with a scheme to distribute ransomware in January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Shenandoah West Moneypenny, 34, of Gladewater, Texas, and Shawn Dale Sanders, 43, of Dallas, Texas, remain in federal custody on a federal criminal complaint for the sex trafficking of a 13-year-old female, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: 'Punisher' Robber Hits Sandy Springs Bank; Now Responsible for Six Area Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Slater Washburn Swartwood, Sr., of Louisiana, has been charged with money laundering for his role in a fraud scheme that involved $3 million in illegal bribe and kickback payments, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: APOLLO BEACH, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Tampa Electric Co. and Gaffin Industrial Services Inc. after five employees were fatally injured, and one other suffered serious burns.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation is continuing negotiations on a proposed repayment contract for the Animas-La Plata Project with the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe for the Tribe’s statutory allocation of project water. The second negotiation meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. at the Dolores Water Conservancy District office, 60 Cactus Street, Cortez, CO 81321.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Federal charges were filed Thursday against two women who were allegedly transporting four unaccompanied minors from Mexico into the United States.
