News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADAM M. SIMPSON, 30, a former member of the U.S. Navy who was stationed in New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for enticing minors to perform sexually explicit acts during online video chats.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has named Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) a member of its worldwide Network of Analytical Laboratories (NWAL) for nuclear material measurements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, after a one-day bench trial, U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. found Christopher Geanakos, 30, of Rancho Cordova, guilty of one count of receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Shawn Isom, age 45, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment on Feb. 27, 2017, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for trafficking in heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Law Enforcement Seeking Information Regarding Suspects in Recent Carjackings.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement regarding reports of possible cuts to the State Department and foreign aid...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Andrew Young (619) 546-7981.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Abdoulaye Barry, 25, a legal, permanent resident from Guinea, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possessing a fraudulent passport and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a minimum mandatory penalty of two years in prison, a maximum of 10 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Arrested by FBI in Seattle Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Caryl, 24, of Silver Springs, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Russell Cary Owens, 51, of Thomasville, North Carolina, was sentenced in federal court to 12 months incarceration for illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, along with representatives of county, state and federal law enforcement agencies, will hold a news conference tomorrow, March 1, at 2:30 p.m. in Syracuse, following an expected guilty plea tomorrow at 1 p.m. in U.S. v. Seppi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Brian Randall, 51, of Castalian Springs, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw, Jr., to 24 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for operating a large-scale methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney David Rivera.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL HAMLETT, SR., 55, formerly of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing an armed robbery of a Seymour bank in 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today opened a 90-day public scoping period on a proposed 211-mile controlled industrial access road in the southern foothills of the Brooks Range. The BLM published a Notice of Intent today in the Federal Register to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) identifying and analyzing concerns and issues associated with a proposal to build a road originating at the Dalton Highway and ending at the Ambler Mining District.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Angelo Strubhar, 47, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - New Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) engineers supporting EM cleanup at the Savannah River Site (SRS) participate in the six-month Engineering Leadership Development Program (ELDP) to ease the transition from college to career.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Freddy Orjuela, Sr. (49, Sarasota) to two years in federal prison and to pay $960,020 in restitution for making false statements in a mortgage loan application to a federally insured financial institution. As part of the sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,475,950, the proceeds of the fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing their oversight efforts in examining the agency’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The LRN was established to boost our federal preparedness for bioterrorism.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Donald Trump laid out his health care reform proposals in a joint address to Congress.
