News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as the Result of ATF-Led Investigation Pursued in Support of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have produced and precisely measured a spectrum of X-rays using a new, state-of-the-art machine. The instrument they used to measure the X-rays took 20 years to develop, and will help scientists working at the agency make some of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: A Miami-Dade resident was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for committing six armed robberies throughout Miami-Dade County.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of WILLIAM JAMES DAVIS, 66, for stealing more than $380,000 from Community Action of Minneapolis. DAVIS, who pleaded guilty on June 16, 2016, to all 16 counts of the indictment, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Susan Anderson, age 56, of Elkton, Maryland, on charges related to a murder-for-hire. The indictment was returned on May 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Reward Offered for Information Leading to the Arrest of Phillip Leron Miller.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Vicksburg, MS - From May 26th through May 29th, 2017, Vicksburg National Military Park will host several events to celebrate Memorial Day Weekend. All events are open to the public. Entrance fees will be suspended on May 27th only. Details on weekend events can be found on.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order to “investigate" the voter fraud myth...
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A Guatemalan national wanted for murder charges was removed Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Made Videos of Sexually Explicit Conduct with Sleeping Children.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: MAY 12 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Bryan Franklin, 41, formerly of Penacook, New Hampshire, pled guilty to possession of fentanyl and methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing Thursday, May 18 entitled “U.S. Interests in Africa." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - - Noel Blackman, who practiced as a medical doctor and was the former Health Minister of Guyana and Executive Member of the World Health Organization, was sentenced to 50 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release today for illegally distributing oxycodone, a highly addictive...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement to allow the Pebble Mine project in southwest Alaska to proceed to regular permitting under the Clean Water Act and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The proposed mineral development project was preemptively denied by the Obama administration outside of the traditional NEPA process.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Ohio man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for exploiting at least six minor boys to produce sexually explicit photographs and videos.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will meet next Wednesday, May 17th for a Full Committee hearing on Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reform, and in particular the management of air traffic control services.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 156 months in prison for robbing three businesses and for brandishing a firearm during the robberies, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Williamstown, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hiring illegal immigrants to work in his dry cleaning business and failing to collect and pay over payroll taxes on behalf of those employees, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Darrell Janis, age 57, of Kyle, South Dakota, was found guilty of two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact as a result of a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raising “grave concerns" about...
