News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Tibor Klein Tipped Off By Client About Pfizer’s Pending Acquisition of King Pharmaceuticals.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. I would also like to thank our witnesses for being here today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: MOSES LAKE, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Ephrata Field Office will hold its annual C.A.S.T. for Kids fishing event Saturday, August 5, from 9:00 am to 1 pm. The event will be held at Potholes Reservoir, located off State Route 262, about 15 miles south of Moses Lake. The campground is managed by Washington State Parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A convicted heroin smuggler who was also the leader of an alien smuggling operation has been ordered to federal prison along with several members of his organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden of Immigration and Customs...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: The annual Kid’s Archeology Day will be held on Saturday, August 5 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Visitor Center. All ages are invited to participate in the events which will take place rain or shine and is free of charge.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released a 36-page constitutional analysis from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) that found a controversial plan to privatize air traffic control likely violates...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY LEE PAROWSKI, 30, of Stratford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JACOB RHETT HOLLAND, age 24, of Burneyville, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for POSSESSION OF UNREGISTERED FIREARM (DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE), in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Sections 5861(d), 5841 and 5871.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: An Iowa man who sold methamphetamine for over a year and who possessed over 20 firearms, including a stolen firearm, was sentenced on July 24, 2017, to more than 13 years in federal prison.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Heavy rains led to flooding within Lake Mead National Recreation Area July 25, causing multiple road closures. There were no reports of injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Raul Ramos, 43, of Holyoke, was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield with one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced four Tampa men to federal prison for engaging in a conspiracy to commit credit card fraud, credit card fraud, and identity theft. Brandon Lewis (22) and Terrance Cobb (22) were each sentenced to 5 years and 1 month in federal prison; Dontae...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Five individuals who were wanted by the FBI, the DFW International Airport Department of Public Safety, the Arlington Texas Police Department, and the Garland Texas Police Department for their suspected involvement in a series of violent robberies against traveling jewelry salesmen, one of which...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 24, 2017, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Aron Gaytan, 22, to 216 months in prison and Patrick Jay Plank, 51, to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. On July 25...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: 19.4 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at Checkpoint on Highway 54 on July 20, 2017; 19.1 Pounds of Cocaine Seized at Checkpoint on Interstate 25 on July 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers (MI-13) today gave the following statement during the hearing of H.R. 2887, the "No Regulation Without Representation Act of 2017."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: CONCORD - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that on July 24, 2017, Martin Gonzalez-Diaz, 34, formerly of Methuen, Massachusetts, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute in excess of one kilogram of heroin and quantities of fentanyl and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Lonnie M. Ray, the president of Cowart Seafood, Inc., of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was sentenced today to 25 months in federal prison for conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and illegal possession of a short-barreled shotgun, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Harold Brittain; Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2017
News Release: Yesterday afternoon, in federal court in East St. Louis, IL, Mark A. McFarland, 58, of Springfield, IL, was sentenced to one year in prison for his convictions on two counts of bankruptcy fraud, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. McFarland was indicted on Feb. 2, 2016, as part of the U.S. Attorney’s effort to crackdown on those who commit fraud in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
