News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARIO FUENTES-VELASQUEZ, age 29, a native of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA), the chair and ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, respectively, and Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Bobby Scott (D-VA), chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that six (6) Robeson County men were arrested today in a coordinated law enforcement operation for allegedly engaging in selling narcotics in the Robeson County area.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Trump’s 2018 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Today, a jury returned its verdict convicting al Qaeda operative Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, 46, of multiple terrorism offenses including conspiracy to murder American military personnel in Afghanistan and conspiracy to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nigeria. Harun traveled to Afghanistan in the weeks...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: MARCH 16, 2017 - In honor of Women’s History Month, the U.S. Census Bureau released today a graphic showing median earnings by detailed occupation from the 2015 American Community Survey. The occupation table shows the male-to-female earnings ratio for full-time, year-round workers in the past 12 months. Internet address: .
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Wanted by FBI San Diego: High School Sophomores and Juniors for Teen Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago trader defrauded more than a dozen clients out of at least $1.5 million by pocketing their money instead of investing it, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Kanawha County, West Virginia, man was caught with a loaded handgun at Yeager Airport (CRW) on Wednesday, March 15, and was cited by police for carrying a gun in an airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted to robbing a Valley National bank in Belleville, New Jersey, in April 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Josue Duarte, 31, 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 DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today issued the following statement in response to President Trump's budget proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Topeka, Kan., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing a bank in Excelsior Springs, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Jason Barber, 39, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today to a total of 60 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Scola Jr in Miami, Florida, for producing child pornography that depicted his abuse of a toddler he was babysitting. Barber previously pled guilty to all counts in the Indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact on the proposed execution of the interim renewal contracts with Panoche Water District and San Luis Water District.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Thursday, March 16, 2017, U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane sentenced Gerald Thomas Schram, 65, of Medford, to 130 months in prison for bank robbery and interference with commerce by robbery. Following his prison sentence, Schram will be on supervised release for three years. Schram was also ordered to pay $9,177 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact on the proposed execution of the interim renewal contracts with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and the cities of Avenal, Coalinga, and Huron.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Robin Kelly (D-IL) sent a letter to Chairman Jason Chaffetz requesting that the Committee hold a hearing to consider bipartisan gun trafficking legislation...
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a member of the Senate Budget Committee, today released the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LEE HENRICI, 32, of Salem, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in New Haven to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin.
