News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that District Judge Geoffrey Crawford sentenced William Allen, 32, to twenty-five years in jail based on his conviction for receiving child pornography. Allen, from Barton, Vermont, must serve a lifetime period of supervised release after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Acting Superintendent Ken Hutchison announced today that a 13-knot vessel speed restriction will be implemented between the entrance to the West Arm of Glacier Bay and the Marble Islands due to a high concentration of humpback whales. At...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Luis Estela Packaged and Distributed Heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: This bill embodies the worst of the damage the Republican agenda would inflict on American families and the worst of a broken and secretive process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that STEVE EARL PERRY JR, age 27, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 110 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM & AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that CHAD ANTHONY COX, age 27, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced to 117 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Ahmad Nassar, 30, of Sacramento, charging him with access device fraud, possessing stolen mail, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Acio Richards, 26, of St. Thomas, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for cocaine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez also sentenced Richards to three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant JAMES DEAN TRANGSRUD, age 51, from Santa Rita, was sentenced today in District Court to a 12-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank fraud and mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), today released a letter from the Office of Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A St. Marys, West Virginia woman was indicted by a federal grand jury on theft charges, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Taos, N.M. - Effective June 29, 2017, due to increased risk of human-caused fire and current fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office is temporarily closing public lands into or upon the San Pedro Mountains in Santa Fe County. Closure warnings have been posted at the entrances to the San Pedro Mountains. This order will remain in effect until July 29, 2017, or until the area receives significant moisture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney Rufus Seth Williams today admitted that he accepted tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of concealed bribes in exchange for his agreement to perform official acts, defrauded a nursing home and family friends of money earmarked for a family member’s care, and used political action committee funds and official government vehicles for his personal benefit, Acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Yoder. Let me reiterate how much I appreciate the way you’ve run our subcommittee and the way you’ve included me in the process. You’ve sought my input and really tried to make writing the Legislative Branch appropriations bill a collaborative process as much as possible. That process has given us a bill we can both support and be proud of, even if our preferences differ in a few areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Court records unsealed today reveal that Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 25, of Columbus, Ohio, pleaded guilty to all counts alleged against him regarding a terrorist plot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Cynthia Renee Scarsdale, 55, of Tulsa, pled guilty to two counts of Wire Fraud, announced Loretta F. Radford, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Court James H. Payne will sentence Scarsdale on Sept. 27, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: In Congress, July 4, 1776, The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office will partially open the Shoshone Lake Road on June 30. The road remains closed by the U.S. Forest Service from the base of Cyclone Pass to Shoshone Lake because of drifted snow and snowmelt.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Dear Inspector General Horowitz: We respectfully request that the Inspector General of the Department of Justice investigate whether Attorney General Jeff Sessions violated his recusal from matters relating to the presidential campaigns in 2016 when he participated in President Trump’s decision to fire...
