News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Two Lieutenants and One Officer at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn Indicted for Sex Crimes Against Female Inmates in Their Custody.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park invites you to join park staff and volunteers in celebrating the beauty of the park’s native wildflowers during Wildflower Week, June 4 through 10, 2017. On Monday, June 5 and Wednesday, June 7, park staff and volunteers will be available to talk to visitors at the Visitor and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - An Atlanta man who recruited individuals from local homeless shelters to cash counterfeit business checks was sentenced yesterday to 75 months in prison.
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: OSHA renews alliance to promote safety for Oklahoma’s oil, gas workers
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on May 24, 2017, Carl Anthony Mangiameli, 52, of Omaha, was sentenced to 18 years and four months (220 months) in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Mangiameli will serve five years on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Rock Island, Ill., businessman, Todd B. Raufeisen, waived indictment and pled guilty to an information that charged him with defrauding investors in his land development and management projects of approximately $1.7 million. Raufeisen, 56, entered his guilty pleas to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering today before U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow. Sentencing is scheduled on Sept. 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Virginia man for possessing with intent to distribute more than a pound of cocaine in Greene County, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID KLIMENKO, age 29, of Houma, was charged today in a Bill of Information with Failure to Register as a Convicted Sex Offender and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - An investigation into a large scale drug trafficking organization in Hockley and Cochran County, Texas has resulted in federal drug distribution conspiracy charges against seven defendants who are charged in two federal indictments that were returned last week by a grand jury in Lubbock, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Edgar Fallad-Martinez, 29, of Dallas, was sentenced today before Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Melissa Sue Baker, 39, of Murfreesboro Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court, to two counts of tax evasion, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Following a three-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, a federal jury convicted a North Texas man of attempting to entice an individual he believed was a 13-year-old girl.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,415,850 contract on April 6 to Suulutaaq, Inc., a small business from Suisun City, California, for construction services to modify Hyatt Dam near Ashland, Oregon.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Flows on the Rio Chama are on the rise as the most robust spring runoff since 2005 continues in northern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: MAY 25 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that James Hayes, also known as “T.Y.," 33, of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday...
By State Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks during the committee’s consideration of five bipartisan measures...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, released a report originally issued in 2010 by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, who served at the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: National Missing Children’s Day. On May 25, 2017, Roger C. Stanton, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Birmingham Field Office, reaffirmed the FBI’s continuing support of National Missing Children’s Day, observed on May 25th of each year. In 1983, President...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man was convicted today of illegally possessing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2017
News Release: For the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through Nov. 30, forecasters predict a 45 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 35 percent chance of a near-normal season, and only a 20 percent chance of a below-normal season.
