News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant threatened to kill members of law enforcement and burn a mosque.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Juan Andino-Tirado, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 85 months in prison for robbery and aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: I would like to thank the Chairman and his staff for their collaboration on a very successful FY 2017 Omnibus. Just two months ago we were able to come together and pass a bipartisan appropriations bill that stripped out dozens of riders and provided vital funding for the important agencies under this subcommittee’s purview.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Calvert, Ranking Member McCollum, and Chairman Frelinghuysen for your work on this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abner Joe, 55, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On July 11, 2017, United States District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Erik William Johnson, 44, of La Pine, Ore., to two years in federal prison for money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: California Tax Preparer Sentenced to More Than 14 Years in Prison for Using Stolen IDs to File Fraudulent Returns Seeking More Than $2 Million in Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Malcolm Cowart, a/k/a “Prince", 37, of Harlem, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 24 years in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that FEI YAN, who works as a post-doctoral associate at a major research...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 21-year-old Pharr man has been sentenced to life in federal prison following his convictions of conspiracy to commit hostage taking and conspiracy to transport undocumented aliens, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury sitting in McAllen convicted Luis Gerardo...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A California man who participated in a large-scale cocaine trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today to 162 months in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: POINT REYES STATION, Calif. - The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a in federal court that, if accepted by the court, resolves the litigation challenging Point Reyes National Seashore's General Management Plan and its management of ranching. ( [4,799 KB PDF]).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant has a prior conviction for possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: “These grants highlight the vital role NOAA plays in the Gulf of Mexico," said Secretary Ross. “The fisheries which will be studied through the RESTORE Act Science Program are critical to local economies along the Gulf."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - An American Falls, Idaho, man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison followed by 15 years supervised release for enticing and coercing two underage girls, a result of a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that FEI YAN, who works as a post-doctoral associate at a major research...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Keyser, West Virginia woman was convicted today of failing to register as a sex offender, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jule Futrell, age 44, a resident of Endicott, New York, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley to serve 208 months’ imprisonment for multiple armed robberies of banks and another business.
