News from July 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Audrina Veneno, 23, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to fourteen-months of imprisonment prison followed by one year of supervised release for her conviction on a child abuse charge.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Potomac, Md. - Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal National Historical Park will be conducting hazardous tree pruning and removal at five locations in Montgomery County; these locations are Riley’s Lock, Marsden Tract, Violettes Lock, Great Falls, and Anglers. Work will begin August 2017 and is anticipated to run through the winter months. The affected areas will remain open with some partial closures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who was among a group arrested for distributing heroin in Huntington in 2015 was sentenced today to six years and four months in federal prison for a drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Damond Idress Robinson-King, 23, previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: In Waco last week, a federal judge sentenced Nancy Chan, a 39-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom and City of Austin employee, for perpetrating a marriage fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Javier Enriquez, Customs and Border Protection Office of Professional Responsibility, El Paso Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Richmond, Ky., man, who previously admitted to embezzling money from several related commercial real estate companies in Lexington, has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn.- Darries Leon Jackson, a.k.a.“Darryl Jackson," 58, of Morristown, Tennessee, was sentenced on July 31, 2017, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve life in federal prison for his conviction of possession of ammunition by a convicted felon. There is no parole in the federal system.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit woman who was caught in Huntington with heroin in December 2016 was sentenced today to four years and three months in federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Ebony Inez-Latee Johnson, 43, previously pleaded guilty to a single-count indictment charging her with possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Bear attacks are very rare in general, and predatory black bear attacks represent a very small minority of those attacks. Over a course of 100+ years (1900-2009), just 59 predatory attacks by black bears occurred in the entirety of Alaska and Canada combined. Greater than 90% of these incidents were perpetrated on groups of 1-2 people and greater than 90% of those incidents involved male black bears.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Illegal activity transpired in Simpson County, involved three co-defendants, and approximately.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Reward Paid to Tipsters for Arrest of Lyle Jeffs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Victim Survived the Bombing with Serious Injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation and Child Abuse.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: GRAPEVINE, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) formally announced the signing of 18 new 287(g) agreements throughout the state of Texas at an event in Grapevine today attended by Acting ICE Director Tom Homan and sheriffs from each of the 18 counties.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: PLAINFIELD, N.J. - Operation Snow Bank resulted in 36 arrests involving three suspected rival drug trafficking organizations operating out of the City of Plainfield, including five alleged MS-13 gang members and the seizure of more than 1.5 kilograms of cocaine, more than two ounces of heroin and marijuana, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: Contacts Name: ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-0937.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP Committee, today released the following statement on President Trump’s continued threats to undermine bipartisan efforts on health care by ending cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments to insurers...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member on the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) special report on challenges that DHS is facing hiring law enforcement officers mandated by President Trump’s Executive Orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that BILLY HERSHELL SMITH II, age 48, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a), punishable by up to 30 years...

By State Newswire | Jul 31, 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 31, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 43-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been found guilty of child enticement charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston.