News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes man who sold drugs while on federal supervised release pleaded guilty today to a heroin charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Darrell Spicer, 60, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: MISSOULA - Roam Savage Chandler, 22, of Missoula, Montana, pleaded guilty today in Missoula federal court to sex trafficking of a minor and racketeering charges. He faces a mandatory prison sentence of 10 years to life in prison for the trafficking count and up to five years for the racketeering charge. U.S. District Court Judge Donald W. Molloy presided over the change of plea and set sentencing for May 11, 2017 in Missoula.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Yan Ebyam, 39, of Missoula, Montana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to six years in prison for two separate conspiracies to grow and distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation announces today that public comments are being sought regarding Seagull Bay Recreation Area. Reclamation and Power County, Idaho, Commissioners are finalizing an agreement under which Power County would manage the recreation site. Seagull Bay Recreation Area is located on the eastern shoreline of American Falls Reservoir in American Falls. The management agreement is expected to be completed by the end of February.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday to consider U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. Below is the opening statement of Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nicholas Martin Coberley, 45, of Pollock Pines, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 27 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for assault on a federal employee with a deadly weapon, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park encourages all 4th graders to visit the park for free this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The Every Kid in a Park pass gives 4th grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 federally managed lands and waters. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov for further information and to download the pass.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Appropriations Democrats Call for Rules Change to Avoid Conflicts of Interest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 29-year-old David Milner of El Paso to 15 years in federal prison for implementing a human sex trafficking scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division; and, FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A federal inmate was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with escaping from the Coolidge House Residential Reentry Center in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Mary Galan, 66, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for the crime of conspiracy to defraud the United States, namely the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 29-year-old Laredoan has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of conspiracy and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Daniel Elizondo March 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Isaac Quezada, 34, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 46 months in prison for violating the federal firearms laws by illegally possessing a firearm. Quezada will be on supervised release for three years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: FBI Public Corruption Task Force Receives Award from the Metropolitan Crime Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Georgia man has been arrested on federal charges he carried out an e-mail spoofing scheme that cost Sedgwick County $566,000, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At a meeting today of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans unanimously voted against an amendment offered by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings that would have prohibited the Committee from passing bills that directly benefit President Donald Trump or his many businesses around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH -The United States Attorney’s Office announced that on Jan. 23, 2017, a jury found SHAMIEKA GOODALL, a/k/a Donna Diva, 30, guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping and of a substantive count of Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging Richard Leon Wilbern, 56, of Rochester, NY, with several felony crimes. In a two-count indictment, Wilbern is charged with the Aug. 12, 2003, armed robbery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that two brothers from Alabama were sentenced last week to 10 months in prison for flying an unregistered plane loaded with marijuana.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced Democratic membership of Foreign Affairs Subcommittees for the 115th Congress. He also welcomed the Committee Democrats' unanimous election of Representative Ami Bera (CA) as the Vice Ranking Member.
