News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Coordinated releases from a series of Upper Colorado River Basin reservoirs began on Saturday, June 3, and are anticipated to continue through this week as part of the Coordinated Reservoirs Operations Program. The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation; the Colorado...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Federal officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 70 criminal aliens and others throughout the Dallas and Oklahoma areas during a three-day enforcement action which ended June 3. Those arrested are from the following countries: Cuba (1), Guatemala (1), El Salvador (3), Korea (1), Mexico (62), Zimbabwe (1) and Sri Lanka (1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Christina Renee Caveny, 37, of Dallas, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Muzaffar Hussain was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $495,000 in restitution for his failure to account for and pay over trust fund taxes, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Three U.S. Postal employees in Akron and a fourth man were indicted for a conspiracy in which they stole packages containing marijuana from the U.S. mail and then sold the drugs, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As Republicans in Washington demand increased oil and gas drilling and expanded coal and minerals mining on public lands, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today pressing for information on Zinke’s decision to delay the upcoming...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Kyle Brenner, 56, formerly from Bellevue, Nebraska, was sentenced on June 5, 2017 in federal court in Omaha for receiving child pornography. Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Brenner to five years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Brenner will be required to serve five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina John Stuart Bruce announces that today, in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced ROBBIE GLENN REVELS, 45, of Pembroke, North Carolina, to 54 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $1,806,734 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR RAUL CINTRON, also known as “G" and “Big G," 23, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: An traditional cattle drive will take place early Saturday morning, June 10, in Grand Teton National Park. While the cattle drive is underway, a two-mile stretch of US Highway 26/89/191 will be temporarily closed to vehicle traffic from Moran Junction to the Elk Ranch Flats area that lies just one mile...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Oakland resident admitted he induced minor to engage in sex acts to produce visual depictions of the conduct.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: S&T’s network of researchers have created a hurricane to help improve our understanding of how they work. While this storm is hypothetical, it is helping leaders at the federal, state and local level to better anticipate inland flooding, storm surge and wind speeds in future hurricanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHARLES JERNIGAN, also known as “CJ" and “Snooze," 23, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Judge Thompson also ordered JERNIGAN to perform 50 hours of community service.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chinese businessman was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to provide military equipment to a Peruvian terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dane Robert Pollock, age 33, a resident of McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday, May 31, 2017, for sexual exploitation of children involving the production of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking ring operating in southeastern Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Oved David Valenzuela-Ortega, who admitted to trafficking a large quantity of methamphetamine, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 324 months in federal prison. The sentencing was announced jointly by Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas’ Drug Enforcement Administration office and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Forty-five defendants have pleaded guilty. NEWARK, N.J. - A cardiologist with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, his wife, and a doctor with a practice in Woodland Park, New Jersey, were charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme involving Biodiagnostic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Melfa man who amassed tens of thousands of digital images and videos of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AURELLE HUCKABEE, 22, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl to...
