News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today, Special Agent in Charge Trevor Velinor, Columbus Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Benjamin C. Glassman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio announced sentences handed down by U.S. District Judge James L. Graham for Jack Fox, 39, and Hollie Fox 32, for selling firearms without proper record keeping and failure to conduct background checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A Parma Heights financial advisor was charged in federal court for defrauding clients out of more than a half-million dollars, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A Detroit man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison after having pleaded guilty to false information and hoaxes by threating to blow up the funeral procession of a slain Detroit Police Department Sargent, announced Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A drug trafficker was sentenced to 14 years in prison in federal court on Friday, June 9, 2017, for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) requesting that the Committee hold hearings to both examine and begin work to address the rising costs of prescription drugs. The letter was signed by every Democrat on the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A convicted sex offender was sentenced today to one year in prison for escaping from federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Wickliffe, Kentucky, resident and convicted felon, Christopher Ford, was the last of six co-defendants sentenced in United States District Court this week to 240 months in prison, followed by a five year period of supervised release, by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, for his role in the distribution of methamphetamine, a controlled substance, and additional charges of being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A multi-convicted felon was sentenced to 35 years in prison by King County Superior Court Judge Timothy Bradshaw on May 26 in a case investigated by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Seattle Field Division and Burien Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Three Amarillo residents have been charged by a federal criminal complaint stemming from their role in selling large quantities of methamphetamine, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s Dallas Division and John Parker the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Thomas J. Montieth, age 65, of Spokane Valley, Washington, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty on April 4, 2017 to Distribution of Child Pornography. Senior United States...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A Mexican woman was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison following her conviction for conspiracy to import methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today announced it is investing $6.9 million in rare earth element (REE) research through two funding opportunities. DOE announced today that three projects have been selected to receive approximately $3 million for research aimed at producing ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the start of the process to withdraw the Clean Power Plan rule. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has begun the regular inter-agency review process by delivering to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a draft proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas -Kelly Turner, 35, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 188 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2017 to one count of distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: MIAMI - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a former soldier today who was involved in torturing suspected guerillas during his service in the Salvadorian Army. ERO officers turned him over to immigration authorities in El Salvador.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today pushed back on the Trump Administration’s plans to eliminate the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development, expressing concern that the elimination of the position will hinder efforts to boost rural development and grow rural economies across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Defendants Forfeited $100,000; Paid to Destroy Big Blue Cockfighting Venue.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announces that the weekly operational period for public lighthouse visitation will change beginning June 14, 2017. The park will also resume charging visitors its regular fees for this experience.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Claire McCaskill, Committee Chairman Republican Ron Johnson, and additional Committee members met with Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Public Security and Strategic Affairs Minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JASON MICHAEL GOMEZ, 38, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty today to accepting a bribe in return for committing a fraud on the United States, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
