News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that FEDERICO LOPEZ-FIALLOS, age 35, a Honduran national, was charged in a one-count Indictment with illegally entering the United States after being previously removed, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on May 9th, after over four weeks of trial, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts against six individuals charged with committing approximately $13,655,094 in Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel announced that Maurice Adonis Withers, 28, Madison, Wis., was found guilty yesterday of six counts of sex trafficking and three counts of interstate trafficking for prostitution. The jury reached its verdict after less than three hours of deliberation following a four-day trial in federal court in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: Jonathan Shane Culbreth, 21, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U. S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to serve 5 years in federal prison for starting a fire last summer that destroyed a historic building in the heart of downtown Glennville. The fire, which Culbreth began before dawn on...
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Dollar Bay High School’s Minettes & Miner have won the 2017 Smackdown!.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the Acting Assistant Administrators and Acting Regional Administrators of 19 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) offices to request a briefing from each on President Trump’s proposed cuts to the Agency. The request comes after...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian National pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to launder money from various international locations back to Colombia.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a public meeting to present the Soda Fire rehabilitation monitoring results from 2016. Topics will also include post-fire vegetation treatments, grazing resumption objectives and other projects within the Soda Fire burned area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire Human Trafficking Collaborative Task Force and Give Way to Freedom have ended their partnership. Give Way to Freedom had served as the Project Director for the Task Force. Going forward, the Task Force will adopt a new management structure and will seek to install a new Project Director.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Construction to replace the Indian River pedestrian bridge in Sitka National Historical Park will begin Monday May 8th. Cross-park foot traffic will be closed through mid-August. Signs and maps will direct pedestrians around the park during construction. The detour will be through the Sitka Fine Arts Campus to Sawmill Creek Road. Detour maps are available at the visitor center or Russian Bishop House information desks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that yesterday, in federal court in Benton, Illinois, Jason J. Parmeley, 43, formerly of O’Fallon, MO, was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison for crimes arising from a large stolen property fraud ring and a separate bank fraud. The stolen property ring operated in the Metro East and numerous other locations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced Dan Wayne Streetman, age 46, of Spokane, Washington, to a 60-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a lifetime of court supervision and required sex offender registration, for three charges of production of child pornography. Streetman had pled guilty to the offenses on Dec. 13, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A West Texas man was sentenced Friday by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 148 months in federal prison for stalking and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement Agreement with El Paso Business Over Allegations of Violating the Employment Rights of a Texas Army National Guard Member.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Charles G. Thomas, Jr., 27, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 100 months in prison for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - - Juan Pablo Martinez, 47, of Queens, New York, was arrested Wednesday after a search of his backpack revealed two kilograms of cocaine, the majority of which was concealed as individually wrapped candies.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. May 4, 2017-An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist will become the newest member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame tonight during ceremonies at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. She is receiving the award posthumously.
By USDA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers Market on the National Mall opens for its 22nd season, Friday, May 5. The market offers an opportunity to more than 30 farmers, ranchers and small food businesses to sell their products directly to those who work, live and visit the Nation’s Capital.
