News from July 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
Release: ALCOA, Tenn. - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at the McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS) checkpoint today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and William E. Fitzpatrick, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 162 months in prison for purchasing more than three kilograms of heroin from a source in Bronx, New York, and re-selling it to drug dealers in Paterson, New Jersey.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the first part of the 2018 End-to-End Census Test will begin next month, as census takers take to the streets in three test sites to update local housing addresses. The address canvassing operation will take place in Pierce County...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 56-year-old Sherman, Texas doctor has been arrested on federal drug conspiracy charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced today by Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The number of accidental drug-related overdose deaths in the City of New Orleans in 2016 exceeded the number of murders for the first time in the city’s history, according to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office. Drug-related deaths in Orleans Parish totaled 211 in 2016, more than double the number reported in 2015. Seventy-eight percent of the fatal overdose (166 total) in 2016 were opioid-related. This is more than twice the 81 overdose deaths in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: DAYTON, OHIO - The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced today that they have completed a thorough, independent investigation into the fatal shooting of John Crawford III on August 5, 2014, by Beavercreek Police Officer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Dr. Lawrence Gerard Nassar, 53, of Holt, Michigan pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement to the three federal criminal charges pending against him, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Nassar pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography in 2004, possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 24-year-old U.S. citizen and resident of Nuevo Laredo has been ordered to federal prison for attempting to smuggle more than a dozen firearms, scopes and ammunition magazines to Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Iram Abel Buentello pleaded guilty March 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tommie Lee Causey, Jr. was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for possession of a stolen firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(j). United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, of Columbia, sentenced Causey to 110 months incarceration, followed by a term of supervised release of three (3) years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that the former President of the Alaska Railroad Workers Union was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage today to serve one year and a day in federal prison for embezzling approximately $92,000 in union funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Utah Chiropractor Convicted of Tax Evasion and Obstructing the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Glenn Strout, 54, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 3½ years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography. Strout pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Friday, July 7, 2017, a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict against former TSA officer Jamie Blunder, 48, of Charlotte, convicting him of drug conspiracy and firearms offenses for his involvement in a drug trafficking network operating in Charlotte and Greensboro, N.C., announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging GENRI GONZALEZ-CARRENO, age 39, of Mexico, and ROGELIO GUTIERREZ-GALLEGOS, age 41, of Mexico with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding neighbors and other acquaintances of approximately $437,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Jacob Chiaradonna, 28, of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for robbing two Rochester banks in October of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tommie Lee Causey, Jr. was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for possession of a stolen firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(j). United States District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, of Columbia, sentenced Causey to 110 months incarceration, followed by a term of supervised release of three (3) years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Robbed a Marsh Supermarket and 10 Speedway Gas Stations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Butler County resident convicted at trial in February on child exploitation charges has been sentenced in federal court to 30 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
