News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former deputy city treasurer for the City of Compton was arrested today on federal charges related to the theft of more than $3.7 million of city funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Raeford, North Carolina, has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day on his conviction of conspiracy and transferring counterfeit currency, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: CHALLIS, ID - The Bureau of Land Management Challis Field Office continues to gather wild horses from within the Challis Herd Management Area (CHMA) using bait traps. The gathered horses are now available for public viewing at the Challis Wild Horse Corrals on Wednesday, April 5 and Thursday, April 6 from 3 - 5 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Defendant Accidentally Shot Himself. ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury today convicted Edwin Ferrer, age 44, of Schenectady, New York, of unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition, as well as a small quantity of crack cocaine. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing today to examine the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2017 (H.R. 986 ). Introduced by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), the legislation would protect Native American sovereignty by preventing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from asserting jurisdiction over tribal businesses operated on tribal land.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment last week charging Jason David Lott, age 32, and his wife, Camila Mae Bergeson, age 22, both of Ogden, in connection with a child pornography case investigated by the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for robbing two banks in Mansfield, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja, FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony and Mansfield Police Chief Kenneth Coontz.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: An Akron man was indicted on federal drug and firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced Freddrick Dorr (46, Oviedo), James Dellafield, Jr. (24, Sanford), Beth Farber (30, Orlando), and George Materazzi (46, Orlando) to federal prison for drug trafficking. The Court also ordered each to forfeit firearms and U.S. currency...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former deputy city treasurer for the City of Compton was arrested today on federal charges related to the theft of more than $3.7 million of city funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today called on President Trump to explain why his budget plan forces rural and Native American communities to pay for his border wall rather than following through on his false promise to make Mexico pay for it. Grijalva also called on Trump to provide more detail regarding the proposed route of the wall in light of serious questions about where it will be built.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Most people have never seen an accelerometer -- a device that measures change in velocity -- and wouldn’t know where to look. Yet accelerometers have become essential to modern life, from controlling automobile airbags, to earthquake monitoring, inertial navigation for spaceflight, aircraft, and autonomous...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: For Using the Internet To Make and Send A Threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Isaiah Deonte Jovan Beavers, 26, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after entering a guilty plea for making a threat using the internet and sending a communication that contained a threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Misused Government Property to Punish Fort Lee Mayor for Not Endorsing Gov. Christie’s Re-election.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment last week charging Jason David Lott, age 32, and his wife, Camila Mae Bergeson, age 22, both of Ogden, in connection with a child pornography case investigated by the FBI Child Exploitation Task Force.
By State Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed three bipartisan measures to address urgent threats posed by North Korea’s Kim Jong Un regime. Specifically, these measures enhance North Korea sanctions, condemn its ICBM development, and urge the State Department to designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Lowry, 22, of Rochester, NY, who pleaded guilty to Hobbs Act robbery, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and possession of a stolen firearm, was sentenced to 128 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: In Austin today, 23-year-old Mexican National Hugo Baltazar-Ramirez pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal deportation officer last month in Austin announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: William Dixon Previously Admitted to Embezzling Over $4,000.
