News from January 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va.- A West Virginia man was caught with a loaded handgun at Yeager Airport Tuesday evening, Jan. 3, and was cited by police for carrying a gun in an airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Walter Wallace, Jr., 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 on Alice Avenue in the City of St. Louis. Wallace was sentenced this afternoon by United States District Court Judge Henry E. Autrey. His co-defendant, Jerry Chambers, will be sentenced later this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Utah Businessman Indicted for Tax Evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - Due to flooding conditions and ice jams along the Salmon River, the BLM is implementing a temporary closure at the Challis Bridge Recreation Site until water levels and weather improves. The recreation site is highly popular and provides easy access to the Salmon River but extreme weather with the combination of very cold air and strong winds created dangerously low wind chill values and froze the water resulting in ice jams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: JAN 05 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Eugene Moulton, 67, and Antoinette Perreault, 48, both of Harmony, Maine, were sentenced in U.S. District Court...
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) bipartisan legislation - H. Res. 11 - which opposes the anti-Israel United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 and calls for its repeal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Anne Marie Johnson, 38, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 14 months in federal prison for misprision of a felony for her role in the manslaughter of Marshall Scott Dent committed on Indian land, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Lindani Mzembe, 32, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr. for kidnapping, making a ransom demand, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and being felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva will offer an amendment to the sweeping House Republican deregulation bill known as the REINS Act later today that forces GOP lawmakers to either account for the health and environmental impacts of weakened federal standards or vote against providing the public with valuable information about the costs of their actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sukita M Williams, 44, of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Hilliard, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for her role in a criminal organization that illegally trafficked the prescription painkiller oxycodone, between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Columbus, Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the House Democratic Steering Committee recommended Reps. Brian Higgins (D-NY), Terri Sewell (D-AL), and Suzan DelBene (D-WA) to serve on the Ways and Means Committee...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today introduced legislation that would allow limited oil and natural gas development within the non-wilderness portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Concord, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Juan Rojas, 32, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty today to (1) conspiracy to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, oxycodone and cocaine and (2) conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Rojas appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter his guilty plea.
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: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard J. Beall, 49, of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. ngland Jr. to 15 years in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: We are saddened to report that the seven-month-old kitten known as P-52 was recently struck and killed by a vehicle on the 118 Freeway. This young male recently lost his mother, P-39, when she was struck and killed on the same freeway a few miles away on December 3rd, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: Owner of Florida Telecommunications Company Pleads Guilty, Second Defendant Sentenced to 52 Months in Prison for Involvement in International Cellphone Fraud Scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Jan. 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the seven retail firms selected to take part in a pilot designed to enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants to purchase their groceries online. The two-year pilot is slated to begin this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Arnita Avery-Kelly, a licensed podiatrist, and Brenda Lewis, Avery-Kelly’s office manager, have been arraigned on federal charges of illegal distribution of opioid pain killers and other drugs at clinic locations purporting to provide podiatric care in Sandy Springs, and Lithonia, Georgia. Dr. Avery-Kelly and Ms. Lewis were indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 21, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., has been tapped to lead the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry during the 115th Congress, continuing his efforts to put the concerns of farmers and ranchers first.
