News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: FBI, Verona Police Department, and the Baden Police Department Seek the Public's Assistance in Identifying the Unidentified Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Today, Johntarance Henriquis McCray (23), a former Alabama Corrections Officer from Hope Hull, was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for smuggling multiple drugs into a state correctional facility, announced A. Clark Morris, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. At the time of the offense, McCray was a prison guard at Draper Correctional Facility in Elmore County.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The Congressional Task Force on Election Security, chaired by Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) and Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Robert Brady (D-PA) received its first information gathering briefing to inform its work on securing our election systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAELLE MARTINEZ, age 39, of Marrero, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILMER ANTONIO GOMEZ-RODRIGUEZ, 30, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in New York, N.Y., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin. Judge Bryant also ordered GOMEZ-RODRIGUEZ to pay a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Cameron Cleveland, 39, of Ravenna, with armed bank robbery and brandishing a firearm during the robbery, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Salem, Ore. - Those looking to view the eclipse from Bureau of Land Management lands in Northwest Oregon, including the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, on Aug. 21, 2017, should plan ahead. Because we strive to be good neighbors, we encourage you to please keep the following tips in mind so you have a good experience:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley today announced that Vincent Torraco, 26, of Athol, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to three bank robberies, including one in Rindge, New Hampshire.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: e.gov/legislation/markups/h-res-259-h-res-311-hr-2061-and-hr-2408">full Committee markup of nine measures, including his own resolution calling upon authorities in Kenya to hold a free and fair election...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On July 27, 2017, Sierra Danielle Messer, 23, of Newport, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve 162 months in prison as a result of her conviction for distribution and possession of child pornography. Following her release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of sexual exploitation of a child was sentenced on Monday, July 24, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Julianna Park, 53, of Post Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft from a tribal organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez. Parker was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four vendors to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board have entered non-prosecution agreements with the government requiring the payment of over $9 million in monetary penalties for their involvement in previously providing things of value to officials at the PA-LCB.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Grab your Blanket, Lawn Chair and Floating Candle Luminary!.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today marked up bills to promote economic development in communities across the country and improve federal disaster assistance and mitigation programs, including H.R. 1758, the “Brownfields Reauthorization Act of 2017."
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation's Eastern Colorado Area Office (ECAO) has announced lowered water levels at Flatiron Reservoir due to a scheduled maintenance outage.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Highways and Transit Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) led a letter to Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT) Elaine Chao...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities on Monday and Tuesday arrested three defendants charged with participating in a tax fraud scheme that used stolen identities to file at least 527 fraudulent federal income tax returns claiming more than $1.9 million in fraudulent tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, Richard F. Woodhead, 54, of South Attleboro, Mass., has agreed to plead guilty to an information charging him with attempted receipt of child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch; Colonel Ann C. Assumpico, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police; and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for New England.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICO BURRELL, a/k/a “Zico Nico," pled guilty today to racketeering conspiracy in connection with his leadership of the “Big Money Bosses" gang (“BMB"), a violent street gang founded by BURRELL that operated primarily on White Plains Road from 215th Street to 233rd Street in the Bronx.
