News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE ANNOUNCES. “BE HERE FOR KIDS". CHILD SAFETY EVENT IN PHOENIX. PHOENIX- The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, as part of the Department of Justice’s Project Safe Childhood initiative, is hosting the ‘Be Here for Kids’ event on Thursday, May 25th, 2017 at the Desert...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: For Bank Robbery. SOUTH BEND - Acting United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced that Lamont Hawkins, 21, of Elkhart, Indiana was sentenced before District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for bank robbery. Hawkins was sentenced to 117 months imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release. According...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that COREY CELESTINE, age 33, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. CELESTINE pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - A California woman pled guilty this week in an international fraud case that started in 2014 when sixteen individuals were arrested in South Africa, Canada, California, Wisconsin, New York and Indiana, pursuant to an eight-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in a scheme to defraud a bank and bank regulators, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. (May 17, 2017) - This spring there was a joint operation between Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and eight other law enforcement agencies to disrupt the cultivation of marijuana in Sequoia National Park and adjacent public lands. This effort lasted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that RAYMOND J. GORDON, also known as “X-RAY," 30, of Stratford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM is using robotic technology to perform remote radiological repairs to its Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Defendant Continued To Run Heroin Distribution Network From Mexico After Being Deported.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb recognized 129 officials from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies yesterday at the annual Law Enforcement Awards Ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges relating to Social Security fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed passage in the House of Representatives of his legislation to impose new sanctions on Syria’s Assad regime and its supporters, encourage negotiations to end the six-year old crisis, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Charles, Mo., woman and a Republic, Mo., woman were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A North Las Vegas man was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday for a federal firearms violation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Norris, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on May 15, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Navy Admiral Sentenced to Prison for Lying to Federal Investigators about His Relationship with Foreign Defense Contractor in Massive Navy Bribery and Fraud Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Under Agreement With United States and State of Texas, Vopak to Reduce Hazardous Air Pollution at Chemical Storage Facility in Deer Park, Texas.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: “Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein did the right thing by appointing a special counsel to investigate the Trump-Russia Scandal, and I hope Mr. Mueller is quick to demonstrate his independence from the Trump Administration. I look forward to him getting to work and getting long overdue answers for the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: As the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, I have the honor of working closely with federal, state and local law enforcement officers on a daily basis. I am deeply appreciative of the professionalism, dedication and quiet courage these brave men and women continually demonstrate under demanding and often dangerous circumstances. Put simply, we would be lost without the goodwill and hard work of our police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Cape Cod woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a drug and money laundering ring.
