News from June 2017

By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Today, park search crews located the body of Jeff Murphy who was missing near the park’s North Entrance. Mr. Murphy’s death appears to have resulted from a fall on Turkey Pen Peak.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Baldemar Solis, aka “Balt," 45, formerly of Arlington, Texas was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to Life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits Providing Sensitive Documents to Friend Whom She Selected for Health Care Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admitted Committing 18 Burglaries Over One Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the return of an indictment charging Tracy Dean Tronco (51, Lakeland) and Alejo Tronco-Diaz (50, Lakeland) with one count of conspiracy to commit federal program theft, one count of mail fraud, and two counts of federal program...

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.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Greg Miera, 51, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 78 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his armed bank robbery conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 6, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault and firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Dillon J. Peters...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of health care fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 6, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault and firearms offense on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Dillon J. Peters...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s May 2017 jobs report...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania woman appeared in federal court in Boston today for a detention hearing after having been charged with smuggling drugs, concealed in her underwear, into the United States on a commercial flight from the Dominican Republic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: East Chicago Man Sentenced for Gang-Related Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On June 7, 2017, Marvin Richie Lewis, Jr., 34, of Sells, Ariz., a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frank R. Zapata to 37 months in prison. Lewis had previously pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor, who is also a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Lewis will be placed on lifetime federal supervision and be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) will host an Industry Day, June 14, in Seattle, Washington, to introduce opportunities for technology startups ...

By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 8, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced that USDA is awarding four loans to help provide broadband service in rural portions of California, Illinois, Iowa and Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: The founder and chief executive officer of a now-defunct Silicon Valley technology start-up company was charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday in Orange County, California with allegedly defrauding several of his company’s former employees by luring them to join his company based on false and misleading ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: A Lawrenceville, Georgia man was sentenced in Norfolk, Virginia for his role in an odometer tampering and title fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: The former owner of a Las Vegas, Nevada strip club pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the District of Nevada to evading employment taxes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2017
News Release: Ali Kourani, 32, of the Bronx, New York, and Samer el Debek, 37, of Dearborn, Michigan, aka, “Samer Eldebek,” were arrested on Thursday, June 1, on charges related to their alleged activities on behalf of Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization.