News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Boone County man who sold heroin to an informant was sentenced today to two and a half years in federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christopher Priestley, 38, of Bloomingrose, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KEVIN GONZALES, age 25, of Houston, and EARL BROWN, age 32, of New Orleans, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated 404 items of cultural significance to the Government of Peru at a ceremony Thursday at the Peruvian Embassy in Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner and the director of a Kansas City, Mo., day care center were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to file false attendance reports in order to fraudulently receive as much as $556,000 in federal benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Leah McGinnis, a 28-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been named superintendent of Saguaro National Park in Arizona by NPS Intermountain Region Director Sue Masica. McGinnis, who recently completed a four-month stint as acting superintendent of Saguaro, is superintendent of Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. She will begin her new assignment the week of Feb. 19.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., today welcomed the release of a report they requested from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examining the National Park Service’s (NPS) deferred maintenance backlog. The report outlines the amount and composition of deferred maintenance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Richard Lee Derrick, Jr., 52, a resident of Honolulu, Hawaii, was sentenced on January 10 to 24 months in federal prison for aggravated identity theft, announced Florence T. Nakakuni, United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Margarito Berumen, 32, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Berumen will be sentenced within the range of three to ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that David L. Bradford, 33, of East St. Louis, Illinois, formerly of Madison, Illinois, was sentenced on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, for drug and gun trafficking offenses following a jury trial that concluded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against the Nigerian owner of a day care center in Kansas City, Mo., who was indicted last summer for engaging in a fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: In El Paso, 34-year-old Francisco Javier Pulido was sentenced yesterday to 24 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for the death of a Horizon City, TX, resident in September 2009 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr....
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Salem, Ore. -- The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (YHONA) has initiated the planning process for YHONA. The public is invited to learn and comment on the Recreation Area Management Plan. The meetings will be offered on the following dates and locations:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced another significant prison sentence resulting from a federal grand jury indictment against 38 individuals in Operation Third World, a long-running investigation by the Middle District Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Task Force (OCDETF) aimed at dismantling a notoriously violent drug trafficking network operating in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Darius Jamal Shields-Dryden (“Shields-Dryden") pled guilty yesterday to a five-count Information charging him with making material false statements to federally licensed firearms dealers in connection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Indiana Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Engaging in a Child Exploitation Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Spokane, WA - Today, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (CCT) and the United States of America, acting through the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and on behalf of the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG-HHS), announced a voluntary settlement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of EUGENE RYAN BOOS, 44, to 195 months in prison after pleading guilty on Aug. 15, 2016, to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime. BOOS was sentenced before Senior U.S. District Judge David S. Doty in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Reps. John Conyers, Jr. and Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement after the U.S. Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced they will conduct an immediate investigation into the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) actions before the 2016 election...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: Man convicted of first-degree murder sentenced to serve 25 years to life in prison.
