News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former church youth leader in Iberia, Mo., was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Rep. Darin LaHood (R-IL) introduced H.R. 2937, the “Community Reclamation Partnerships Act." This bill authorizes partnerships between states and non-governmental entities for the purposes of expanding abandoned mine reclamation projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Kevin Williams (a.k.a. “Capone"and “Cap"), 44, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford for Williams’ distribution of heroin in the Rutland area in October 2015. Williams previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Admitted to possessing approximately 23 pounds of cocaine, heroin, meth and $170,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Fontella James (37, Plant City) to two years and eight months in federal prison for conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. She pleaded guilty on April 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Karen Lynn McClaflin, age 58, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and owner of “Homesource Partners Inc." pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to one count of wire fraud and one count of engaging in a monetary transaction in property derived from wire fraud, Acting...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -On June 21, at 10:27 am, a fire was reported in the Quail Springs area of Joshua Tree National Park. Fire crews from CAL FIRE, San Bernardino County, BLM and National Park Service responded to a brush fire approximately 100 yards of off the road near mile marker #21.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Defendant convicted of failing to register twice before.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today continued her opposition to Russell Vought, the nominee for Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after his repeated refusal to commit to respond to oversight requests from Congressional Democratic leaders during his nomination hearing-a break from decades of precedent.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD - J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote, “I believe legends and myths are largely made of truth." Have you heard a story about the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) that just did not seem right? Do you have a story about the C&O Canal that you have heard time and time again...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury sitting in Madison indicted the former Vice President and Treasurer of a Johnson Creek, Wis., produce vendor today for tax evasion, failure to file a corporate tax return, and structuring currency transactions, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Jeffrey M. Anderson for the Western District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Sixteen members and associates of the Yung Money/Yung Gunz Bloods street gang have been indicted with conspiracy to commit transportation of stolen vehicles and wire fraud, transportation of stolen vehicles, sale or receipt of stolen vehicles, and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Due to increasing human caused wildfire activity, dry conditions, and high fire danger in southwest Utah and northwest Arizona, Color Country Interagency Fire Managers are implementing additional fire restrictions beginning Wednesday, June 21 at 12:01 a.m. The following describes the restrictions implemented by each fire management agency in the Color Country Fire Management Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An Elk Grove man was arrested today on charges of sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Wilson Vasquez, also known as “Will" and “Pancho," 44, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 151 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for heading a large heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men who were arrested in California with 15 kilograms of cocaine bound for New Jersey were arraigned today in Newark federal court, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Joseph Shayota and Adriana Shayota were sentenced to 86 months and 26 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and to introduce misbranded food into interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Matthew Joseph Kelly, age 29, of Pickens, South Carolina, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison today by United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain. Kelly previously entered a guilty plea in federal court on Jan. 18, 2017, for possessing a destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Bobby Napier was sentenced to 48 months’ imprisonment for bribing a public official in order to smuggle drugs through passenger security screening at San Francisco International (SFO). The sentence was announced by Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Rene Anthony Laureano, 31, of Roxbury, MA, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 24 months in federal prison for trafficking a Massachusetts female to Rhode Island for the purpose of prostitution.
