News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Defendants Tortured Murder Victim And Set His Body On Fire In 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: JAN 27 - PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Michael Bermudez, aka “Michael J. Morales," 35, of Cranston, Rhode Island, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking heroin laced with fentanyl and trafficking cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, and Cranston Police Chief Colonel Michael J. Winquist announced the plea jointly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man arrested in 2014 as part of “Operation Protect the Powerless," a joint law enforcement operation to catch child predators in southern Nevada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 156 months in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman found with heroin after police responded to a shooting call at her residence in 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Amanda Mae Smith, 33, entered her guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Sandra Zongo Claimed to be the “Deputy Commissioner of Foreign Affairs" While Passing Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Fake Purchase Orders.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced that the Pipestone National Monument and other National Park Service (NPS) sites, around the country, proudly join the nation in observing President’s Day by offering fee-free entry into the parks on Feb. 20, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico received bids of $2, 935,450 for four Federal leases totaling 843 acres during the Jan. 25, 2017 oil and gas lease sale. Leases for these parcels will not be issued to the successful bidders until protests received on them are considered by the BLM.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has named a Jamaican man in an indictment that accuses him of supplying a Jet Blue flight attendant with nearly 60 pounds of cocaine that she attempted to smuggle on to a plane at Los Angeles International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SAQUENA GRIFFIN, a/k/a “QUEENIE," age 34, of New Orleans was charged today with conspiracy to pay and receive illegal Medicare kickbacks which resulted in Medicare paying $378,274 to a local home health.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: The DOE-funded Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is offering a free public webinar that will explore sharing economy opportunities in the electricity sector. Motivated by the innovative business models of companies that leverage underutilized infrastructure by resource sharing, this webinar...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Gordon Reaves Parker Manipulated Drug Addicted Women And Traded Drugs for Sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Des Plaines, Ill., man, Arriba W. Lewis, 43, was arraigned in federal court today, after a grand jury returned an indictment that charges him with possession of heroin with intent to distribute. The indictment alleges that Lewis possessed with intent to distribute approximately 200 grams of heroin on Jan. 12, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Las Vegas - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fire managers are anticipating favorable weather conditions for pile burning on BLM-administered lands along the Muddy River, approximately 5.5 miles northwest of Moapa. The prescribed fire is anticipated to commence January 30. Previously set dates did not meet safe conditions for this prescribed fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Emily R. Strunk, age 45, of Parker, Colorado was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 78 months in federal prison for wire fraud, money laundering, and embezzlement from an employee benefit plan, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Patrick Willie Smith (41, Daytona Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Court also ordered him to forfeit an FEG (.45-caliber) pistol and seven rounds of.45-caliber ammunition. Smith pleaded guilty on Sept. 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has named a Jamaican man in an indictment that accuses him of supplying a Jet Blue flight attendant with nearly 60 pounds of cocaine that she attempted to smuggle on to a plane at Los Angeles International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Holt Parker, 59, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 48 months in prison, 15 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $40,000 fine for possession of child pornography, admitting that he attempted to destroy a thumb drive containing nearly 1,000 video files, the majority of which depicted child pornography that he had downloaded from the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced the Committee will mark up the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to serve as U.S. Treasury Secretary in an executive session on Monday, Jan. 30, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 6 p.m.
