News from June 2017
By DOT News Wire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation released the following statement on legislation reauthorizing the FAA and reforming Air Traffic Control introduced in the House of Representatives:
By DOT News Wire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation released the following statement regarding the FAA Reauthorization Bills introduced today in the U.S. Senate:
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Angelo Gigliotti Sentenced to 20 Years for Importing Over 50 Kilos of Cocaine into the U.S. from Costa Rica; Eleonora Gigliotti Sentenced to 7 Years.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - Effective immediately, public lands east of Smith, Nevada, in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wilson Canyon Recreation Area, are closed to all forms of public access. This includes the Day Use area as well as the recreation area along Copperbelt Drive. This closure will remain in effect until river conditions allow for safe use of the area.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Yesterday, Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos requesting clarification on her position regarding the rights of students with...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of this morning’s 9:30 a.m. hearing with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on the president’s proposed fiscal year 2018 budget, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) highlighted the budget’s total failure to balance, despite its authors’ rhetoric to the contrary, and the many...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: A former Oak Harbor Police Officer was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 42 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JOHN LITTLE, 55, pleaded guilty in March 2017. LITTLE came to the attention...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a St. Clair County woman was indicted on June 20, 2017 for an arson offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jose Hernandez Guerrero, age 39, from Pamplico, was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Illegal Re-entry into the United States after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a)(2). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell, of Florence, sentenced Guerrero to 15 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that this morning, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Angel Speed, 26, of Columbus, MS, was sentenced to 39 months in federal prison for crimes arising from his participation in a large stolen property fraud ring. The stolen property ring operated in the Metro East and numerous other locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that a federal jury late yesterday found COREY BROWN guilty of murder in aid of racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, and firearms charges, and found JOSNEL RODRIGUEZ guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Visitors are advised that both propane and fuel are unavailable at Halls Crossing, until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOHN F. KELLY, III, age 56, of Metairie, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Demar Neal (a.k.a. “D"), 31, was sentenced by United States Chief District Court Judge Christina Reiss to a six-year term of imprisonment for conspiring to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in the Rutland area in 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was charged today in federal court in Boston with an immigration crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Kevin Patrick Mallory, 60, of Leesburg, Virginia, made his initial appearance in federal court today on charges that he transmitted Top Secret and Secret documents to an agent of the People’s Republic of China. According to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, Mallory, travelled to Shanghai in March and April 2017 and met with an individual (PRC1), who he believed was working for the People’s Republic of China Intelligence Service (PRCIS).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: One of the character traits that distinguish those who choose a career in law enforcement from the rest of the American workforce is an uncommon desire to help those in need. Men and women called to serve and protect also understand that such a commitment doesn’t punch a clock, and that they may find themselves in a situation requiring action at any time and in any place.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Former UFCW Employee Admits to Violating the Taft-Hartley Act, Committing Honest Services Fraud, and Conspiring to Structure and Launder Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - This week, federal and state authorities arrested 14 members of the Orrantia Drug Trafficking Organization, including ringleader Mario Armando Orrantia, on federal drug trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
