News from June 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Two West Texas men, who each pleaded guilty in February 2017 to one count of sexually exploiting a 12-year-old girl, were sentenced Monday to hefty federal prison sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Dennison, Ohio woman was arraigned today on an illegal firearm charge after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An Andover woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to stealing more than $100,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 56-year-old North Texas man has pleaded guilty to committing perjury in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: David Wandell, of Monroe, owner and operator of Wandell’s Working Crew, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of filing a false 2010 federal tax return, signed under penalties of perjury, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: The latest NOAA forecast shows that widespread coral bleaching is no longer occurring in all three ocean basins - Atlantic, Pacific and Indian - indicating the likely end to the global coral bleaching event. Scientists will closely monitor sea surface temperatures and bleaching over the next six months to confirm the event’s end.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO - A long-term investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has led to one of the nation’s largest seizures of the deadly synthetic opiate fentanyl and a federal indictment against three alleged traffickers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Timothy Wayne McGahee, 22, of Flowery Branch, Ga., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine trafficking charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. -When a Hartford health care facility failed to adequately respond to a tuberculosis exposure in December 2011, its interim senior vice-president for operations, director of nursing and its coordinator of its Healthy Start program actively tried or were associated with efforts to raise...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Sean Ragan Named Special Agent in Charge of the Sacramento Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: On June 3, 1942, the Japanese bombed the military base at Dutch Harbor, marking the beginning of World War II in Alaska. The attack continued the next day, with more bombs on the military base and the BIA hospital in Unalaska. With the Japanese military subsequently invading the islands of Attu and Kiska...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A former correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institution at Aliceville pleaded guilty today to accepting $5,695 in bribes to smuggle contraband into the prison and lying about it to investigators, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton, and Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Robert A. Bourbon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant BERNARD J. MENDOZA, age 33, from Yigo, was sentenced today in District Court to a 37-month term of imprisonment for attempted possession of methamphetamine with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Fredericksburg woman pleaded guilty today to executing several fraud schemes that resulted in a loss of approximately $245,000 to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On June 19, 2017, Luke Martin, Jr., age 57, of Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey and was sentenced 151 months in prison for drug charges related to a string of armed robberies in 2016 of Git-N-Go, Kum & Go, Hy-Vee, and U.S. Bank, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Talk about finding a 5-cent needle in a haystack. How about finding a diamond worth thousands of dollars in an airport checkpoint! Yet that’s just what Transportation Security Administration officers did earlier this month in Albany, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Judge A. Richard Caputo sentenced Davon Beckford, age 23, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 16, 2017, to a time-served sentence of 13 months of imprisonment, for conspiring to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Courtney Eugene Harris, age 37, of Greenville, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, a violation of 18 U.S.C. 924(c). United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: A drug trafficker was sentenced to over 12 years in prison in federal court on Friday, June 16, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2017
News Release: Yellowstone National Park seeks comments from the public on an environmental assessment (EA) that assesses the impacts associated with the proposed construction and operation of a National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) site in the park. NEON requested the National Park Service (NPS) allow a site within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. The NPS is not the sponsor of the project, but is considering the benefits and impacts of the proposal.
