News published on Federal Newswire in July 2017

News from July 2017


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID SHEAROD, age 45, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a seven-count Bill of Information charging him with bank robbery, attempt robbery of a United States Postal Office, and Hobbs Act Robbery.


News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to robbing 10 banks during a 19-day spree from late December 2016 to early January 2017.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Orange County, California men were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, California to serve 41 and 47 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a multi-million dollar fraudulent mortgage modification scheme posing as a successful law firm, the Justice Department announced.


BLM Temporarily Closes Fort Sage OHV Area to Protect Public from Wildfire

News Release: DOYLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has temporarily closed the Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle Recreation Area, near Doyle, to protect the public from wildfire.


News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer, Jr., announced today the arrest of William Thomas Murry, III, 60, of Sherwood, on multiple charges of possession and receipt of child pornography.


Queens To Suffolk Heroin Network Arrests Announced

News Release: SUFFOLK, COUNTY, N.Y. - Anthony de LosAngeles, aka “Taco," 20, of Tarrytown, New York, was sentenced today to over eight years in prison for selling heroin, some of which substantially contributed to the overdose death of one of de LosAngeles’s customers. De LosAngeles pled guilty on March 17, 2017, ...


News Release: PVRD2 supports a wide variety of photovoltaics research pathways, including module design, high-risk emerging research, and technology facilitating rapid installation. Nearly 80 percent of these projects are led by academic institutions, ensuring that the next generation of energy researchers pursue...


Alleged Philadelphia fentanyl distributor arraigned on federal drug trafficking charges

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A Philadelphia man suspected of distributing wholesale quantities of fentanyl was arraigned in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Friday following a joint investigation initiated by the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Portland and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS).


Framingham Man Sentenced for Child Pornography Offenses

News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for possession and receipt of child pornography.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A grand jury today returned a superseding indictment that charges Matthew J. Higgins-Vogt, 24, of Decatur, Ill., in the April 3, 2015, armed robbery of the Circle K convenience store and the April 5, 2015, murder of Paige Mars, also of Decatur.


News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A former ship captain for Majestic Ventures, Majestic Dinner Cruises and Majestic Yacht Charters dinner cruise lines has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of aggravated identity theft and making false statements in a passport application, announced Acting U.S.


Oxford Man Sentenced to 130 Months for Cocaine Distribution

News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announced that yesterday in federal court, Senior U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ CROSS, 33, of Oxford, to 130 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised...


News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Danny R. Q. Wong was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage today to serve a term of 15 months in prison for distributing opium. Wong, 58, of Anchorage, was indicted last year for conspiring with three other persons to distribute...


News Release: New York Restaurant Entrepreneur Sentenced to 12 ½ Years in Prison for Investment Fraud Scheme and Tax Evasion.


News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions began today for BLM-lands managed by the Little Snake Field Office in northwestern Colorado.


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for answers from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) about their use of the Electronic Immigration System, the system whose deficiencies were primarily responsible for USCIS issuing 20,000 green cards in error.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that COURTNEY WORTHINGTON, 29, of West Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to one count of bank robbery and admitted that she robbed a total of three Connecticut banks in December and January.


News Release: Memphis, TN - A woman who made false statements during the purchase of a firearm has been sentenced to six months in federal prison. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement calling on House leadership to include right to try language in the House FDA Reauthorization bill...


News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID SHEAROD, age 45, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a seven-count Bill of Information charging him with bank robbery, attempt robbery of a United States Postal Office, and Hobbs Act Robbery.