News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Salih Zeki Uces (39) to 21 months in federal prison for international parental kidnapping. A federal jury found him guilty on March 2, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old federal prison chaplain has been sentenced for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Erik David Lowry pleaded guilty in federal court to charges involving illegal firearms possession, tampering with evidence, and tampering with a witness, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. Pittsburgh Tactical Firearms, the gun store owned and operated by Lowry, also pleaded guilty to illegally selling firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Ukiah Field Office and the Lake-Napa unit of CAL FIRE will conduct prescribed burns in the Bear Creek area in Colusa County starting the week of June 19th, if air quality and fire prescription conditions are suitable.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati - The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to STC Environmental Services JV, LLC located in Albuquerque, NM. STC Environmental Services JV, LLC is a Small Business. The IDIQ contract will have a maximum value of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Inman was sentenced to 34 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down June 7, 2017, by the Honorable Charles...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Faces 12 Years in Prison. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former teacher’s assistant at a Buffalo, Mo., elementary school pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving child pornography. Dalton Cole Sherman, 20...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury today found RUBEN PIZZARO guilty of murder, participating in a narcotics conspiracy, and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to embezzling $172,551 from a customer of the Mattapan bank at which she was a teller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Suburban Chicago physician was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to 30 months in federal prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of one year, for bribery concerning health care programs receiving federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Eric Rouleau, 37, most recently of Somersworth, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for robbing a credit union and mailing threatening communications.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation's June forecast of the April through July runoff for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former employee of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security pleaded guilty today to defrauding the government of approximately $198,000 in funds paid under the Federal Employee’s Compensation Act (FECA), commonly referred to as workers’ compensation.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today wrote to Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin regarding a recently uncovered kickback scheme at the John Cochran VA Center in St. Louis-and how the VA is taking action to prevent similar schemes around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Three men from Las Vegas were sentenced on Tuesday to federal prison for their roles in a string of armed robberies of cell phone stores, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerry Little, 47, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to bank robbery before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 9 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “The FY 2018 Foreign Affairs Budget.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: If you’ve ever watched any crime drama television show, you’re well aware that DNA can help crack the case. But in the homeland security landscape it can do that and more thanks to S&T’s development of a technology aptly named Rapid DNA that reduces the 8 to 10 hour processing time for DNA results to 90 minutes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Victims of the scheme in the United States and Canada suffered a total loss of approximately $2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Tuesday to six months home confinement and 50 hours of community service for a bank robbery he blamed on a fight with his wife, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
