News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of three years probation, of which two months will be on home detention, for his conviction of conspiracy and wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Dealer on ‘Silk Road’ Website; Heroin linked to Overdose Death of Bellevue Man.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after new Obamacare enrollment numbers were released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Richard Winston West II, aka Richie West, former manager of the Jones-West Ford dealership in Reno, pleaded guilty today to prescription drug conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone. Special Agent in Charge Steve Comer of the DEA’s Los Angeles field division, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 3, 2017, federal search warrants were executed at the following locations in Des Moines, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Silver Fire burned 307 acres in 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is adequate snow cover for the use of snowmobiles for traditional activities in areas of the 1980 park additions that are south of the crest of the Alaska Range.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee event...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka woman was sentenced Friday to 34 months in federal prison for the sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) announcement regarding 2017 enrollment of Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Billy J. Williams, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, provided the below statement on the opening of the Unity Center for Behavioral Health in Northeast Portland.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the below statement after the administration imposed sanctions on 25 Iranian entities in the wake of Iran’s latest ballistic missile launch...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Zhenya Bulgakov (40, Largo) to 12 years and 11 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Hummer limousine that is traceable to the proceeds of the offense. Bulgakov pleaded guilty on Sept. 19, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, the Energy and Commerce Committee kicked off its first full week of hearings on a host of topics ranging from Medicaid to cybersecurity. Members are hard at work already and eager to deliver solutions that bring relief to patients suffering under Obamacare, strengthen Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Courtney Hayes, 35, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. Reagan to 151 months in federal prison for one count of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Donald S. Boyce for the Southern District of Illinois announced. Hayes will also be subject to three years of supervised release to follow the prison term and $100 in special assessment fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley, 33, of Detroit, Michigan, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, for his role as the primary supplier of tens of thousands of diverted prescription pills that were shipped from the Detroit area into Middle Tennessee, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s sanctions against Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earlier this week, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., found probable cause to support a methamphetamine trafficking charge against Juan Carlos Corral-Garcia. Today the Magistrate Judge ordered Corral-Garcia, 28, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, detained pending trial based on findings that he poses a risk of flight and danger to the community.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jodi L. Webber, 37, of Hancock, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by John A. Woodcock, Jr. to a year and a day in prison and five years of supervised release for embezzling bank funds. She was also ordered to pay $19,400 in restitution. Webber pled guilty on Sept. 21, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2017
News Release: LEE CO, MS- The Natchez Trace Parkway (Parkway) law enforcement rangers will conduct high intensity patrols on February 5, 2017, as part of a national effort to promote traffic safety. In conjunction with the National Park Service Traffic Safety Coalition, rangers continue to target dates associated...
