News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Harrison, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: A Port St. Lucie Man was charged with attempted importation and distribution of LSD and unlawfully possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: NOTE: Settlement agreement and other document links at bottom of release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Lockport woman was convicted on federal fraud charges today for scheming to swindle money from a not-for-profit network that coordinated organ and tissue donations in Illinois and northwest Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office is requesting the public’s assistance to identify any other children who Morris has victimized. Morris, who according to public sources claimed to be a film director for “Just Film It Productions," is known to have set up trips for the purpose of photo and/or film shoots in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: State Street Corporation Agrees to Pay More than $64 Million to Resolve Fraud Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 12, 2017, Jeremy J. Neumann (age: 43) of Neenah, Wisconsin, was found guilty following a jury trial in federal court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, of the following charges: (1) arson of a building in interstate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - A Fort Worth, Texas, man, Manuel Guadalupe Garcia, 21, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 135 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2016 to one count of possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - On Dec. 16, 2016, Fire Island National Seashore’s Abbreviated Final General Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (Final GMP) was approved through a signed Record of Decision. The GMP outlines a cooperative stewardship approach to managing the natural and cultural features of Fire Island and the William Floyd Estate for the next 15 to 20 years.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will support security operations for the 58th Presidential Inaugural, coordinating with federal, state and local agencies to secure transportation systems and protected sites surrounding the event.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service announced it will publish a controversial regulation to revise organic livestock and poultry production standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: A Cedar Falls, Iowa man who knowingly stored hazardous waste at his now defunct Cedar Valley Electroplating facility in Cedar Falls without a permit authorizing the storage was sentenced on Jan. 18, 2017, to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Gladstone, Mo., residents and a Kansas City, Mo., man have sentenced in federal court for their roles in conspiracies to pass fraudulent prescriptions and to steal thousands of oxycodone pills in a series of pharmacy robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A British man who traveled to the Coachella Valley to have sex with pre-teen boys and later pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography was sentenced today to 13 years in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), questioned Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whom President-elect Trump intends to nominate to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Pruitt testified at today's EPW committee hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces that the Tuttletown boat ramp at New. Melones Lake is now open. Recent heavy rains have increased lake levels, allowing boats to launch from a lower-level ramp for the first time since. June 2014. Four-wheel drive is recommended when launching due to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that LEON RICHARD AUTRY, age 43, of Cookson, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 108 months imprisonment, and 3years supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Christian Gonzalez, age 23, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for two bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FAUSTINO JUAREZ-CASTILLO, age 32, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY--Grand Teton National Park’s 2016 visitation set a record for the third consecutive year. The park received over 4.8 million visits, a 3.8 percent increase from the previous record of 4.6 million visits in 2015. The most significant increases came in the months of May, June, and November when total visitation increased 20, 11, and 10 percent, respectively.
