News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Adam Russell Hegyi, age 30, of Crown Point, Indiana was charged with transferring obscenity to a person under 16 and online stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Deonte Spencer, 35, of Syracuse, New York, was detained without bail following a hearing yesterday in federal court in connection with an indictment charging him with participating in a credit-card cloning scheme, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Albert Shih-Der Chang, the former Lead Systems Engineer for a Dallas technology company known as One Technologies, appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - William James Peddicord, 31, Jammie Lee Moore, 45, John-Kiet Dinh Nguyen, 30, and Drew Kendall Frost, 38, were sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater for their roles in trafficking methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 10 a.m. in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Promoting Security in Wireless Technology."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JOSHUA LYNN GONDERMAN, 23, from Lumberton, N.C., to 168 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for the Receipt of Child Pornography (CP). GONDERMAN pled guilty to the charge on Feb. 16, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 13, 2017, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Update on IOT Opportunities and Challenges."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Justin Gauthier, 39, formerly of Northfield, New Hampshire, has been indicted on charges that he unlawfully possessed methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil with the intent to distribute those controlled substances and for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2017
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is restoring a 0.8 mile section of National Park Service-owned dirt track in the Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness in the vicinity of Good Harbor. The unnamed route traveled south from West Lake Michigan Road to Shell Lake. Its closure was called...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: A member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe who sold a fatal dose of heroin to a young Quileute Tribal member was sentenced today to 42 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. CASEY MARIE WARD, 28, and two co-defendants sold heroin to 28-year-old Felisha Jackson on September 5, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and HELP Committee staff released a memo today highlighting the extreme, anti-women views of two Health and Human Services (HHS) appointees, Charmaine Yoest and Teresa...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - As part of its commitment to healthy and productive landscapes, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on a proposal to sample hard rock minerals in the Parkdale area. Mineral materials are typically used in the aggregate industry and are a vital ingredient in concrete and asphalt products, and the proposed sampling is part of a mineral materials sale application.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment that considers the issuance of right-of-way permits to Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T that would allow co-location of a limited range Wireless Communications Facility (WCF) in the Paradise area, Mount Rainier National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Gonzalez-Colon, 21, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, was sentenced to 144 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: Federal Government Contractor in Georgia Charged With Removing and Mailing Classified Materials to a News Outlet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elias Sanchez, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: General Practitioner Wrote Thousands of Opioid Prescriptions for Patients Without Legitimate Medical Purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andre Jackson, 29, of Buffalo, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC, June 5, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today completed a trip to Toronto, marking his first international trip as secretary. Perdue conducted a series of meetings with Canadian officials, including Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay and ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 5, 2017 – Secretary Sonny Perdue will make his first international trip as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture today, Monday, June 5, to Toronto, Canada.
