News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Serial Bank Robber Strikes Three More Times.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - At its second meeting on Jan. 31, 2017 in Reno, NV, the Drone Advisory Committee (DAC) will continue to help the Federal Aviation Administration prioritize its efforts to integrate unmanned aircraft systems - or drones - into the national airspace. FAA Administrator Michael Huerta announced the creation of the DAC as a federal advisory committee in May 2016, and the DAC first met in September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jose Lemus was sentenced today to serve 54 months in prison for his role in an armed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence, handed down today by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, District Judge, follows a guilty plea in which Lemus admitted robbing the Castroville, Calif., branch of a federally-insured bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronnie Ortiz, 39, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of attempt to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 14 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: On Jan. 25, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico State Office will hold its quarterly oil and gas lease sale using the internet-based auction system EnergyNet. The sale was originally scheduled for Jan. 18, but has been rescheduled for January 25. Beginning at 9:00am MST, each parcel will have its own unique open bidding period, with the complete bidding process expected to last a total of 3 hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Jury Duty Scam. The FBI St. Louis Division is warning the public about a telephone scam claiming you have failed to report to jury duty. During the call, the perpetrator impersonates a law enforcement officer or officer of the court. The caller claims you failed to report for jury duty and may even threaten...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the results of a comprehensive, public review of the Nation’s federal coal program. The review, based on hundreds of thousands of public comments and prompted by a Secretarial Order issued in 2016, examined...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Manuel Enrique Santana (36, Orlando) guilty of 10 counts of theft of government money and 5 counts of aggravated identity theft. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each of the theft...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Yesterday, Jan. 10, 2017, NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) and JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration Corporation (JX Nippon) announced that the Petra Nova project -- the world’s largest post-combustion carbon-capture system - has begun commercial operation at the W. A. Parish Plant in Thompsons, Texas, southwest of Houston.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: SALMON, ID - Erratic winter behavior has resulted in several major ice jams along the Salmon and Lemhi Rivers. As of Wednesday, Jan. 11, portions of Shoup Bridge Recreation Site and Morgan Bar Campground are underwater. The Salmon Field Office (SFO) has placed barricades and closed gates to prevent potential accidents at those flooded sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DWIGHT JOSEPH, JR., age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a two-count Indictment charging him with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve and failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Crimes Took Place Last Summer. WASHINGTON - Melvin Smith, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 10 ½-year prison term for a series of robberies of convenience stores last summer in Northeast and Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips and Peter Newsham, Interim...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The leader of a drug trafficking organization that brought significant amounts of heroin and fentanyl, from Detroit, Michigan for distribution in Richmond, Kentucky, has been sentenced to life in prison for distributing fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of a Madison (KY) resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: JAN 11 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Raul Chavez, 57, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine. Chavez also was ordered to pay a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Due to lack of moisture in early winter, two prescribed burns originally scheduled for November-December 2016 are expected to be conducted this month. Weather permitting, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will continue conducting prescribed burns that include approximately 20 acres along the Perea...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., man, Darryl S. Coleman, 30, of the 1200 block of Joanne Lane, has been ordered to serve a total of 137 months (11 years, 5 months) in federal prison for bank robberies in east central Illinois and northwestern Indiana that occurred in October and November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Gregory Hines, age 20 and Deontra Deon Paige, age 19, both of Jackson, were sentenced on Jan. 10, 2017 before U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to a term of 60 months in federal prison, after having previously pled guilty in U.S. District Court to armed carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Mexican man who had been residing in Pasadena has been ordered to prison for importing methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin into the United States from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Gustavo Rivera-Morales pleaded guilty Jan. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Justice Department Files Voting Rights Suit Against City of Eastpointe, Michigan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor released a report regarding a petition from worker rights groups, which alleges that Colombia is not satisfying its labor obligations under its trade agreement with the United States...
