News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to nine years in federal prison for aiding his cousin and Heather Mack in the 2014 killing of Mack’s mother at an Indonesian resort.
By State Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today announced he will convene a hearing on Thursday, June 8 entitled “Attacking Hezbollah’s Financial Network: Policy Options." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Greensburg, Pennsylvania, man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding pled guilty and was sentenced on June 1, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - An eastern Massachusetts man pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to traveling to Rhode Island to have sex with a minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a request from U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General yesterday announced a review of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s efforts to combat illegal opioid distribution through enforcement actions against opioid distributors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced today that Ann German, age 58, of Peever, South Dakota, pled guilty to one count of an Indictment charging her with Conspiracy to Commit Theft from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: VERNAL, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management is postponing two public meetings previously scheduled for June 7 and 8 in Vernal and Roosevelt, Utah. We apologize for any inconvenience.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Montrose, CO: Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, in partnership with the Black Canyon Astronomical Society, will be celebrating the starlit skies of Western Colorado with their 8th annual Astronomy Festival June 21-24, 2017. Black Canyon was designated as an International Dark Sky Park in September of 2015 - one of a small number of NPS sites that are recognized for exceptional dark skies that are perfect for star gazing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - One member and two associates of the Wildboys gang were sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, after each pleaded guilty to attempted murder in aid of racketeering for their roles in retaliation attacks against a rival gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to supplying heroin and fentanyl to traffickers in Taunton and surrounding communities.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Monday, June 19, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, will present a free, 45 minute program on emancipation and its legacy in Chattanooga at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37403. The doors open at 5 pm, and the formal program begins at 5:30 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Brandishing of a Firearm During a Crime of violence as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota, on June 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: SUNG HONG, 45, and HYUN JOO HONG, 41, a Clyde Hill, Washington couple were arrested this morning on federal charges they defrauded multiple clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. SUNG HONG, aka LAURENCE HONG or LAWRENCE HONG, and his wife, HYUN JOO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Two Trumbull County men were indicted for stealing an Army Humvee, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Daniel R. Gerken, 35, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on June 2, 2017, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Gerken was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found PETER J. SANTOS, 41, of Manchester, guilty of one count of threatening a federal official. The trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson began on May 30 and the jury returned the verdict this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Gang Members Allegedly Committed Five Murders, Six Attempted Murders, Assaults, Abduction, Witness Tampering, And Drug Distribution Resulting in Overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two New York men and a woman from Washington, D.C. are named in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Clarksburg, West Virginia on May 2, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that IMRAN KHAN, 43, of North Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to violating U.S. export law.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will increase flows from Lucky Peak Dam today, June 1, 2017, at 11 am.
