News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A local man has been ordered to federal prison for illegally possessing firearms in connection with a narcotics trafficking operation he ran out of his Mission home, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jose Paco Villegas, 48, pleaded guilty March 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to sexually exploiting approximately 150 boys by posing as a teenage girl on the internet and convincing them to send nude photos and videos of themselves to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: 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.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Rockingham County, Virginia, resident was arrested at Richmond International Airport Monday, June 12 after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers detected a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced today that over the last 24 months, thirty-seven (37) individuals have been charged or sentenced with heroin and/or fentanyl related crimes in federal court within the District of North Dakota.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today requesting that a potential Environment Subcommittee markup intended for Thursday, June 15, be postponed until the appropriate federal agencies are able to provide comment on the legislation under consideration.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a hearing to discuss how businesses are leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to create, innovate, and connect. Following the bipartisan IoT Showcase, witnesses discussed how...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 419,627 visits in May 2017. This was the second busiest May on record, down 5.6 percent from May 2016, which saw 444,630 visits. While many factors could be at play, park managers point to road closures due to snow in May and the end of the National Park Service Centennial year as influences in visitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Westminster man has been sentenced to over 8 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
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 Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - An East Texas man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Shaquielle Correa, 21, of St. Croix, made his initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged by indictment with Hobbs Act robbery, conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a federal crime of violence, Acting United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Melissa Lynn Hartwell Found Guilty Following Jury Trial Earlier This Year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, in cooperation with the National Park Service and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, will commemorate Flag Day with a public naturalization ceremony on Wednesday, June 14 in the decorated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Following an eight-day trial, a federal jury sitting in Lexington has convicted.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today requesting that a potential Environment Subcommittee markup intended for Thursday, June 15, be postponed until the appropriate federal agencies are able to provide comment on the legislation under consideration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke a letter requesting an account of public comments received so far through the Trump administration’s controversial national monuments “review" process and a description of Zinke’s travel and meeting...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Highway 140 closed at Parkline at least through the weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Anthonio Rueda-Ayala was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, U.S. District Judge, following the entry of Rueda-Ayala’s guilty plea to the charge on Dec. 19, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a brazen and callous effort to help gun peddlers pad their bottom lines at the expense of the safety and security of American families, House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are holding a hearing tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. on a National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed bill that...
