News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on Tuesday, a grand jury in East St. Louis, IL, returned an indictment charging two California residents for their participation in a nationwide telemarketing real estate scam. Michael S. Davenport, 49, of Santa...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A San Bernardino County man faces federal sex trafficking charges after he allegedly posted an advertisement on Craigslist that offered “sexual tutoring" to females of any age and later agreed to provide “training" to a 12-year-old girl.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Photographs by Noelle Scoullar will be featured at Cape Cod National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center in January. The exhibit is part of the seashore’s ongoing series - Perspectives: Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore Through Art.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr., the Westchester County District Attorney, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Patrick J. Carroll...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Astorga, who handled the case, stated that in 2013, co-defendant Harvey Peake recruited Lambert to assist in transporting illegal narcotics. On Oct. 3, 2016, Peake and Lambert traveled to the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino in downtown Buffalo to deliver 10 kilograms of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman, and a Rapid City, South Dakota, man, convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced on Dec. 11, 2017, and Dec. 12, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Teresa Thompson, 59, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Michael Ervin a/k/a Michael Irving of Jackson, Mississippi, pled guilty Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Eric J. Perez was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty in September, 2017, to Production of Child Pornography, Attempted Production of Child Pornography, Coercion and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William L. Thrash, 51, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty in federal court yesterday to violating the federal firearms laws by brandishing a short-barreled shotgun during the armed robbery of an Albuquerque-area convenience store in March 2017. The guilty plea was entered under a plea agreement that recommends that Thrash be sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking fluid milk processors and other interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: A Young Mother Died in West Virginia after Ingesting Pills Distributed by the Defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - After eight days of trial before U.S. Senior District Judge Samuel H. Mays, a federal jury convicted Jeremy Drewery of one count of Hobbs Act Extortion; one count of Receipt of a Bribe by a Government Agent; and one count of Solicitation to Tamper with a Witness. United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - On Dec. 14, 2017, Steven Winberg was ceremonially sworn in by Energy Secretary Rick Perry as the new Assistant Secretary for the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE). Mr. Winberg was officially sworn in as Assistant Secretary on Nov. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former administrator of the Pettis County Ambulance District pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $227,000 from the district.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Artez Brewer, age 30, of Gary, Indiana was convicted of 3 counts of bank robbery, after a three-day jury trial before District Court Senior Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce Promised Citizenship to Members of Its “Migration Program" for a Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today congratulated Matt Strickler, a senior policy advisor for the House Natural Resources Committee Democrats, on his newly announced appointment as Virginia Gov.-Elect Ralph Northam’s (D) next secretary of natural resources. Strickler was a policy aide for Northam before coming to Capitol Hill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stockton residents Donald Earl Freeman Jr., 25, and Juan Arturo Arroyo Gomez, 30, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bribery, identity fraud, and unauthorized access to a computer, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Roger Shane John, 31, of Turlock, charging him with aiming the beam of a laser pointer at two helicopters, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
