News from May 2017
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: This year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) welcomed 240 organizations as partners into the Better Buildings Alliance, Better Plants, Better Communities Alliance, and Better Buildings Accelerators-collaborative efforts designed to help public sector organizations and private sector companies to save...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant GEORGE M. BAMBA, II, age 38 from Agana Heights, was sentenced in District Court to a 37-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: ST. ANTHONY, ID - On May 31, the BLM is inviting the public to provide local input and expertise on designating routes and trails on public lands located within the Sand Creek Desert and St. Anthony Sand Dunes. The open house will be held from 4-6 p.m. at the Fremont County Annex Building located at 125 N. Bridge Street in St. Anthony, Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Rahshim Carter, an inmate at the federal prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to possessing Suboxone and a homemade weapon known as a shank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joshua Brandon Vallum, 29, of Lucedale, Mississippi, was sentenced today in the Southern District of Mississippi to 49 years in prison for assaulting and murdering Mercedes Williamson because she was a transgender woman, announced Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney...
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today launched ICE.gov/es, an expanded Spanish language presence on the agency’s website. The translated site offers information about ICE and the agency’s mission, as well as press releases and special features.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man and a Huntington woman who participated with others distributing heroin in the Huntington area between 2014 and 2016 pleaded guilty today to federal drug charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Derrick C. Morris, 27, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin. Dorothy D. Pannell, 23, entered her guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Logan August, 30, of Bakersfield, and Derrick Penney, 34, of Star, Idaho, former deputies with the Kern County Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bayonne, New Jersey, police officer was charged today with falsifying records to conceal the use of excessive force during an arrest, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Former Senior VP at Bank of America’s Global Wealth & Investment Management Division and Husband Arrested and Charged.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Flood damage repair work on Mora Road will begin this Wednesday and last for up to six weeks. This project will restore the flood-damaged road to two lanes and address additional slope instabilities. Due to the nature of the road repair there will be no access to Rialto Beach until the completion of the road work with the exception of Memorial Day weekend. This includes backcountry trips through the North Coast Wilderness beginning and ending at Rialto Beach.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A California businessman has admitted to directing the manufacture of counterfeit veterinary-product labels and sending them to Houston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On May 15, 2017, Luis Javier Martinez-Melo, 26, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Judge, to serve 57 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to defraud victims involving an online automobile sales scam. Additionally, the court ordered him to pay restitution to the 66 identified victims of the scheme whose losses exceeded $674,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Jimmy Crate Willis Sponsored Animals to Fight at Big Blue “Sportsmen’s Club".
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 29-year-old man from the North Houston area has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of sexual exploitation of a child and distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Christopher Lynn Persky pleaded guilty May 16, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the founding of Storer College, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites the public to participate in a special presentation entitled “A History of “Anniversary Day" at Storer College" on Sunday, May 28, 2017 at 2:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Rida Saed (58, Tampa) to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison for his role in a scheme involving the filing of fraudulent income tax returns. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered Saed to pay $51,838.91 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. He pleaded guilty on Jan. 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Loves Park man was sentenced in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. (May 15, 2017) - Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to press reports that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2017
News Release: Two coconspirators pled guilty before trial.
