News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman charged with Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty and was sentenced on May 10, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lafayette business owner was sentenced last week to 37 months in prison for mail fraud charge in a scheme where he double-billed the Calcasieu Parish school system for leased copiers.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS - On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed Executive Order 13792, which directed a Department of the Interior review of some national monuments, including southern Nevada's Gold Butte National Monument. In light of this review, the Bureau of Land Management has postponed the Gold Butte National Monument Public Information Forum scheduled for May 25 in North Las Vegas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after Committee Republicans concluded a two-day policy retreat focused on pro-growth tax reform...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -Christopher Bryan Roach, 34, of Charlotte, was sentenced today to 95 months in prison for his involvement in a bank fraud and identity theft scheme, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. also sentenced Roach to two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Co-defendant charged with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: DENVER - John Catilino Maez, age 35, of Pueblo, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 151 months (over 12 years) in federal prison for gun and drug charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Denver...
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House voted to pass the American Health Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: David Torres-Medina (19) and Adiezel Perez-Rosario (19), both of Philadelphia, were charged today by Indictment[1]with four counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce; four counts of using and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence; carjacking; and, as against Torres-Medina only...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Police Disarmed and Arrested Defendant After Mid-Day Shootings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Third Indian National Pleads Guilty for Role in Multimillion Dollar India-Based Call Center Scam Targeting U.S. Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on April 4, 2017, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging SETH WATSON, 32, of Hartford, with distributing synthetic opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - The U.S. Department of Justice and its Civil Rights Division has partnered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s U.S. Fire Administration to promote Arson Awareness Week 2017 (May 7-13), with a focus on preventing arson at houses of worship. An average of 103 arsons of houses of worship occurred per year from 2000 to 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By State Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a North Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for firing a pistol into the air as he attempted to outrun police officers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Toledo Resident Agency, the Toledo Metro Drug Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Northwest Ohio Drug Task Force and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announce the arrest of two individuals for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and the seizure of approximately 39 kilograms of suspected cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND, Ind. - An Indiana man was sentenced Thursday to 292 months in federal prison for coercing and enticing a minor.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2017
News Release: Taos, N.M. -- Calling all fourth graders to America’s public lands! Last year, to help engage and create the next generation of public land visitors, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) participated in the Every Kid in a Park program in partnership with other federal land management agencies. It was...
