News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A federal grand jury in Providence on Tuesday returned an indictment charging four individuals with participating in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than a kilogram of cocaine. It is alleged that the cocaine was shipped to Rhode Island from Puerto Rico via the U.S. Postal Service in small quantities in an effort to avoid detection by law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Depredation of Government Property.
By US DOT Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement regarding a letter that Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) sent to Interior Secretary Zinke. The letter called for scrapping the current Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final rule on methane emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK -Koffi Roudolphe Sewoul, age 40, and a citizen of Togo, was sentenced today to time served (7 months in jail) for misusing a United States passport in an attempt to enter the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Future of Emergency Alerting."
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Ayala arrested in Mississippi on federal charges.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- As the summer season approaches, the National Park Service is gearing up for nearly a dozen free music and performance events at Peter Strauss Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains. All told, there will be five shows as part of the annual series of Tiny Porch Concerts, two dance performances, two immersive art experiences, one artist tour, and an outdoor art exhibition that will run all summer long.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CARLOS ALBERTO LOPEZ-ZELADA, also known as “Willi Mexico," 40, last residing in Willimantic, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Milton Mosley, age 45, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for possession with intent to distribute crack, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Thirty-nine gang members and gang associates have been indicted on federal drug and firearms charges for their role in a methamphetamine and gun trafficking network that operated in San Diego’s Mid-City neighborhoods.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Arrow Lynn Curry, age 24, of Martin, South Dakota, was found guilty of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance as a result of a federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota. Curry was found not guilty of Use of a Firearm during a Drug Trafficking Crime. The jury returned the verdict on April 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason Yelder, 35, of Cheektowaga, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MAY 10 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Carlos Alberto Lopez-Zelada, 40, also known as “Willi Mexico" last residing in Willimantic, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and cocaine (crack).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Defendant Established Six Clinics in Brooklyn that Paid Elderly People to Pose as Patients, and Billed Medicare and Medicaid For Unnecessary and Non-Existent Medical Care and Equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm that was involved in a local shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Special Agent in Charge Peter J. Forcelli for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division; Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro for the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GEORGE KINNEY, 34, of Plainfield, was arrested yesterday and charged in a criminal complaint with distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Jason James Neiheisel (27, Jacksonville) with distributing child pornography over the Internet. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. He was arrested by FBI agents at his residence on May 4, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding the tunnel cave-in at the Hanford Site containing contaminated materials and equipment from Cold War operations.
By EPA Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 17, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Future of Emergency Alerting."
