News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Ten Most Wanted Fugitive Wanted for Murder in Austin Arrested by Central Texas Violent Crimes Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Former Rockland BOCES Official Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Theft, Bribery,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Michael Wayne Wade, 31, of Boise was sentenced today in United States District Court to 240 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Wade pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal jury in Jacksonville has found Matthew Bryan Caniff (33, Gainesville) guilty of attempted online enticement of a minor child to engage in illegal sexual activity, online solicitation of child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, U.S. Marshal Conrad E. Candelaria, Albuquerque Mayor Richard J. Berry, DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Sean R. Waite, and FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derek A. Fuller will hold a press conference tomorrow afternoon immediately preceding the destruction of a large quantity of drug paraphernalia seized and forfeited in connection with several federal narcotics trafficking investigations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - President Trump yesterday signed an executive order that pursues the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border - a project that would harm wildlife, erode tribal sovereignty, disrupt communities and perpetuate a humanitarian crisis. Despite repeated promises that “Mexico will pay," House Speaker Paul Ryan has said that American taxpayers will pay billions for Trump’s wall.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- A federal grand jury indicted Las Vegas resident Wen Bing Lei, aka Raymond Lei, aka Black Raymond, aka Skinny Raymond, for murder in aid of racketeering, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. According...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., today announced the conviction of a Louisville physician, in United States District Court, before Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., on multiple charges including unlawful distribution of controlled substances and health care fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (DFL-Minn.), Ranking Member of the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee, and Democratic members of the Subcommittee wrote to President Donald Trump on Thursday demanding more information about his administration’s freeze on Environmental Protection Agency grants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Broward County returned a twenty-two count indictment against Esteban Santiago Ruiz (Santiago) in connection with the mass-shooting at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on January 6, 2017. Santiago’s arraignment on the charges has been scheduled for Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., before United States Magistrate Judge Barry L. Seltzer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis area man has pleaded to using the internet to coerce an underage teen into engaging in sexual intercourse. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Pedro Hernandez-Perez, 48, of Guatemala, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 25, 2017, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Hernandez-Perez was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Brandon Matthew Florin, 34, of Virginia Beach, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Stacey D. Haynes (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Jan. 26, 2017, Gramann Richard Barnes, 44, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 84 months in prison after pleading guilty to arson, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Barnes was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: The Olympic Hot Springs Road reopened to vehicles today. The road is open as far as the Glines Canyon Overlook. The Olympic Hot Springs Road is closed just above the Glines Canyon Dam due to snow and ice; the Whiskey Bend Road also remains closed due to these conditions.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management Consolidated Business Center (EMCBC) today issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Technical Assistance Contract (TAC), in Moab, Utah. An Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Laredo man has been sentenced to federal prison after he took a firearm from a Webb County Sheriff’s officer inside her home in the course of a domestic dispute, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jose Genaro Contreras pleaded guilty Oct. 6, 2016, admitting to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Brattleboro, Vt., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to aggravated sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors today charged a former Shelby County resident with illegally accessing e-mail and cloud storage accounts of at least 50 women to obtain personal data, including explicit photographs, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
