News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant and an Accomplice Stole Victims' Car.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: I learned about the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy College Student Internship Program at Sandia National Laboratories when I was an undergraduate in the Renewable Energy program at Illinois State University. I was immediately attracted to it. I thought it would be the perfect program to experience what it means to work with a tribe as the tribe pursues renewable energy projects. The program certainly met these expectations, but it was so much more, too.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today coinciding with consideration of a resolution to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said the higher taxes, fewer choices and less access to care resulting from Obamacare have made it clear that an overhaul of our healthcare system is needed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of a Kansas City, Mo., restaurant was sentenced in federal court today for filing a false tax return as part of a scheme to avoid paying more than $566,000 in corporate taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Estanislao De Jesus, 47, of the Dominican Republic, to 41 months’ imprisonment followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Judge Gomez also ordered De Jesus to pay a $100 special assessment and perform 300 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits He Was Planning a Sexual Encounter With a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Walter Wallace, Jr., 29, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on the charge of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking resulting in the Dec. 18, 2010, murder of Michael Hayes. Mr. Hayes was found shot inside his residence located in the 4500 block of Alice Avenue ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Cassville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Prince George’s County Liquor Board officials, David Dae Sok Son, age 40, of Bowie, Maryland, and Anuj Sud, age 39, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and Prince George’s County business owners, Young Jung Paig, age 62, of Beltsville, Maryland, and Shin Ja Lee, age 55, of Landover, Maryland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ALBQUERQUE - Wayne Martin, 45, a member and resident of Cochiti Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lebanon, Mo., automobile dealer was sentenced in federal court today for a mail fraud scheme in which he sold dozens of vehicles with fraudulent titles that greatly underreported the actual mileage of the vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: The owner and operator of a Florida-based telecommunications company pleaded guilty today and a West Palm Beach, Florida, resident was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in prison in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Stefon I. Malone, 25, of Newport News, was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for various drug and gun crimes related to his involvement in drug trafficking conspiracy operating in Newport News.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: The FAA has taken major steps over the past year toward safely and efficiently integrating unmanned aircraft into the world’s busiest and most complex airspace system. Administrator Huerta will discuss the agency’s achievements to date as well as planned upcoming activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: The owner and operator of a Florida-based telecommunications company pleaded guilty today and a West Palm Beach, Florida, resident was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in prison in connection with a sophisticated global cellphone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit plan to ignite Western Slope prescribed fires through March.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus today sentenced Eric Antonio Mejia-Ramos, aka “Flaco," age 22, of Hyattsville, Maryland, today to life in prison, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including participating in a murder. Mejia-Ramos was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 30, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has closed facilities including the visitor center, campgrounds and restrooms along the Merced River at Briceburg in Mariposa county until further notice due to possible flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Defendant Sexually Abused Girls in Their Mother's Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Imposition of 78-Month Prison Sentence; Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
