News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lester, Iowa, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking in Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on February 9, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Indictment Alleges They Used Personal Identifying Information to Open Credit Accounts and Make Purchases at Stores.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Naturalist Programs at Tucson Mountain District (West District), 2700 N. Kinney Rd.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: BOULDER, Colo. - Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have just completed a multiyear study to identify the “best" candidates for future use as air conditioning refrigerants that will have the lowest impact on the climate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Anthony Ray Shirley, 29, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief District Judge Raner C. Collins to 360 months in prison. Shirley, a member of the Tohono O’Odham Nation, was convicted by a federal jury on Oct. 28, 2016 of four counts of aggravated sexual abuse and two counts of abusive sexual contact. Shirley’s imprisonment will be followed by lifetime federal supervised release and he will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Metin Metlu Sado, age 48, of Encinitas, California, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $9,900.00 fine on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Embezzlement Took Place for Nearly a Decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Michael Elder, 36, of Tonawanda, NY, with possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Texas Man Sentenced to Prison for Child Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chicago woman is facing a federal drug trafficking charge for allegedly trying to smuggle at least a kilogram of heroin and four kilograms of marijuana on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), was joined by fellow committee members Tom Carper, Jon Tester, Heidi Heitkamp, Gary Peters, Maggie Hassan, and Kamala Harris today as they formally requested an investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition after having previously been convicted of two felonies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man was arrested last evening and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston today in connection with cocaine distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Three People Found Guilty of Taking Part in Scheme That Used Stolen Identifying Information to Fraudulently Seek Millions in Tax Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - A professional bookkeeper has plead guilty to 13 counts of wire fraud in a scheme to defraud two local Maui business owners. Felicidad Rivera, age 51, of Maui, plead guilty in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud two...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Two individuals charged with the Nov. 26, 2016, robbery at Plaza Frontenac have entered guilty pleas to interstate transportation of stolen property. They appeared in federal court today in St. Louis.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: FEB. 17, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released, for the first time, the for the fourth quarter of 2016. This new advance quarterly report provides timely, high-level estimates on key services statistics approximately 20 days in advance of the Quarterly Services Report, enabling decision makers to improve their measurements of the U.S. economy.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - A Fugitive Operations Team assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Atlanta field office arrested an at-large fugitive criminal alien Friday who is presently number six on the Illinois Department of Corrections Wanted Fugitives list due to his 2003 escape from an Illinois prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: Indictment also alleges misuse of social security number and possession of multiple fraudulent documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TREVOIR JACKSON, age 36, of New Orleans, was charged on February 9, 2017, in a two-count Indictment with being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), and possession of a stolen firearm, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(j).
