News from March 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
Release: Sioux City, IA - The Transportation Security Administration(TSA) today announced the deployment of the latest checkpoint screening technology to Sioux Gateway Airport (SUX).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev.- Balwinder Singh, 41, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Larry R. Hicks to 180 months in prison for conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists for a movement to create an independent Sikh state in the Punjab region of Indian, announced Acting Assistant Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of JOHN L. STEELE, 45, for his role in a multi-million dollar scheme to fraudulently obtain payments to settle sham copyright infringement lawsuits by lying to state and federal courts throughout the country. On March 6, 2017, STEELE...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site will temporarily close the childhood home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. beginning March 8, 2017. The home is expected to reopen March 27, 2017, pending the outcome of a comprehensive condition assessment of the site’s structure, envelope and building systems. Tours of the Birth Home will be suspended during this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, DAVID SAUNDERS, JR., 46, of Poplar Branch, North Carolina, and MICHAEL POTTER,59, of Bayboro, North Carolina pled guilty to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Two Richmond, Kentucky residents have been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Couple and their business illegally received over $3,600,000 in federal tax refunds in a single year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Windsor Mill, Maryland man has been indicted for distributing heroin in West Virginia, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U. S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is making more than $60 million in grants available to support farmers growing fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and nursery crops, also known as specialty crops. The Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Davian Wilson, a/k/a "Chaba", 22, and James Bell, Jr, 21, both from Choctaw, Mississippi, were sentenced on March 6, 2017 by U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, for their roles in a 2014 murder, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced yesterday James Holland Helms, 21, of Maiden, N.C., to 75 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on a firearms offense, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced this morning, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, that Angel Speed, 26, pled guilty to federal crimes arising from his participation in a large stolen property fraud ring that operated in the Metro East and other locations. With Speed’s guilty plea this morning, all fifteen defendants charged in the case have now pled guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Updated April 19, 2017. Earlier today, David Gotterup was re-sentenced at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to 135 months in prison for leading a loan modification scheme that defrauded distressed homeowners. Gotterup pleaded guilty on June 16, 2016, to conspiring to commit wire, mail and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS - Jesus Deniz Mendoza, 19, of Worland, Wyoming, pleaded guilty today in Billings federal court to murder, assault, and firearm charges. Under the terms of the plea agreement, the government will recommend that Mendoza serve the statutory maximum for each offense of conviction. Specifically...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH CICCARELLA was sentenced last Friday to 18 months in prison for evading taxes on over $1.6 million that he siphoned from construction-related companies he owned to use for personal purposes. Through...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an employee who worked under a contract with the U.S. Postal Service was indicted by a federal grand jury today for stealing mail.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, requested a briefing on how the Department of Homeland Security will pay for the first part of their border wall construction plans. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, McCaskill laid out her questions on the total cost of the border wall and how prototype wall structures will be funded.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Randal Gordon Paul, 47, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to a federal child pornography charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Paul will be sentenced to ten years of imprisonment followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Paul also will be required to pay restitution in the amount of $1,000 to any victim who is identified and requests restitution, and to register as a sex offender.
