News from December 2017
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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Dec. 14, 2017 - For the first time in U.S. history, 90 percent of the population age 25 and older have completed high school. This is according to new Educational Attainment data released today from the U.S. Census Bureau.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 3-2 vote to repeal net neutrality consumer protections...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A South Texas man was sentenced Thursday following his convictions for his role in smuggling firearms from the United States into Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Shot a Man in One Incident, Fired at Police Officers in Another.
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Orlando Rios, 45, of Buffalo, NY, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of 100 grams or more of heroin before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carried a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus man was charged today in federal court in Boston with dealing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Dalton Shae Self, 26, of Douglas, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Dec. 13, 2017, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Self was arrested in Douglas, Wyoming. He received 21 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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: Stole more than $110,000 from Vigo County taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Fairmont, West Virginia man has admitted to an illegal firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announced that yesterday in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced the three remaining members of the Maurio Mitchell Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO), responsible for...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Peeno Davis, 23, of Utica, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate 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: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Nathan Antonio Davis, age 38, of Seat Pleasant, Maryland, today to thirteen and a half years in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 62-year-old Houston man has been taken into custody following the return of a federal indictment charging him for his role in a securities fraud and wire fraud scheme involving more than $30 million, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a desperate effort to cover up President Trump’s illegal proclamation to shrink Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, House Republicans held a hearing today on a bill to abolish the national monument and replace it with three new monuments and a national park. Ranking Member...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: The British are Coming!. Richmond National Battlefield Park and Historic St. John’s Church partner in living history event explaining Benedict Arnold’s Raid. RICHMOND, Va.- The British invasion has begun! On Saturday, January 6, the public is invited to join Richmond National Battlefield Park and Historic...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the Restoring Internet Freedom order.
