News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice, announced today that Jason Ponder, 36, an inmate who had been at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to possessing contraband in the prison. Ponder possessed a quantity of the synthetic cannabinoid known as AB-Fubinaca, a controlled substance. Ponder was transferred to another federal prison after the incident.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: PRICE, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office is undergoing remodeling this spring. To ensure public safety while construction is occurring, some improvements to the front reception area may require temporary closures for a few hours or up to a day on an intermittent basis. Our goal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lawson, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing a pipe bomb.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The United States Attorney’s Office is hosting a reception on Friday, January 27 to commemorate the establishment 50 years ago of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Logan woman sentenced to federal prison for oxycodone crime; Charleston man faces up to 20 years for heroin crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former Army Reservist who was previously charged with the theft of military weapons, and then later escaped while in federal custody, has now been charged with two counts of attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Delonte Gregory Parker, age 25, of Laurel, Maryland, late on Jan. 25, 2017, to 90 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for a heroin distribution conspiracy, and for possession of a firearm and ammunition by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: West Virginia Business Owners Sentenced to Prison for Failing to Pay Employment Taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation will conduct a negotiation session for a repayment contract between the United States and the Truckee Carson Irrigation District for the pre-construction activity costs associated with extraordinary maintenance on the Truckee Canal. Under Section 9603 of Public Law 111-11, Reclamation is authorized to enter into contracts for the repayment of costs associated with extraordinary operation and maintenance activities.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, this week introduced four Alaska-focused bills. The bills would expand the use of clean, renewable hydropower to generate affordable electricity for Alaska communities, reroute a portion of a proposed gasline in Denali National Park and Preserve, and rename an existing wilderness area in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Special Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Detectives with the Ventura County Combined Agency Team just culminated a six-month long investigation into a Ventura County based, poly-drug trafficking organization. During the investigation into Toribio Aros-Osorio’s narcotics...
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republicans are expected to vote next week to eliminate the Department of the Interior’s Stream Protection Rule (SPR), which protects public health and the environment from the worst impacts of coal mining. As National Public Radio covered in a segment this morning, opposition to the move is widespread and extends to a fourth-generation West Virginia coal miner whose wife suffered severe asthma from coal dust exposure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev.-A Las Vegas woman was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in prison, eight months of home confinement, and three years of supervised release for filing 83 false tax returns totaling approximately $450,000, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Tara Sullivan of the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: In August 1999, the Peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon’s comeback from the brink of extinction. However, throughout Texas there are less than a dozen known nesting pairs and the falcon remains on the state’s endangered species list.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Holt, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for sharing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Mariyah Chernykh today pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges and admitted entering into a sham marriage with Enrique Marquez Jr., who is facing charges of conspiring with the male shooter in the Dec. 2, 2015 attack in San Bernardino.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN-Donte Timothy Bacon, 31, of Grand Rapids, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. In August, Bacon pled guilty to selling a firearm to a prohibited person and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Charles Lee Samuels, 28, earlier was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his lesser role in the crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Timothy Rossell, aka Timothy Rosselli, aka Austyn Gardner, aka Austyn Labella, of Union, Missouri, pled guilty to charges of impersonating a federal agent.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2017
News Release: [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the announcement that a hearing on President Trump’s nominee for the Department of Labor, CEO Andrew Puzder, will be delayed for a third time until February 7th.
