News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Today, federal, state, and local authorities arrested 26 individuals, including “TMM General" Raul Ramos, and are looking for three others in connection with a heroin/cocaine trafficking operation in the San Antonio area announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; DEA...
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: MOUNT VERNON, Wash. - A Mount Vernon, Wash., man was sentenced in federal court Friday to 15 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possession and distribution of child pornography, as a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: POCATELLO - Ruben Wounded Head, III, 19, of Chubbuck, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to two counts of involuntary manslaughter resulting from a drunk driving crash, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez, announced. Wounded Head was indicted in March 2016 by a federal grand jury in Pocatello.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: The Rio Grande Village Campground will remain open through Memorial Day weekend. This 100-site campground was expected to be closed in order for work to begin on replacing a water tank and waste water lagoon liners. The park just learned that the contractor would need an extra week in order to begin work. The new dates for the campground closure will be May 30 - September 1.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CARLOS ALBERTO PINEDA-CANTOR, age 40, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 8 U.S.C. Section 1326(a).
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2017
Release: LA CROSSE, Wis. - The Transportation Security Administration announced the deployment of the latest checkpoint screening technology to La Crosse Regional Airport (LSE).
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A woman who used personally identifiable information stolen from employees of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was sentenced today to 5 1/2 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Fistfight and Shooting Took Place in Late Afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On June 3, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will conduct artillery programs at Chickamauga Battlefield. Programs, lasting approximately 30 minutes, are scheduled at10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm near Tour Stop 3, along Poe Road. Follow the “Special Event" signs to the program site. There are no admission fees for these programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Bear Lake, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, and was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $696,273.72 on her conviction of embezzlement of credit union funds, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on reports that President Trump’s proposed budget will include an unfunded paid family leave plan that falls short for millions of families.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Conspirators Targeted Rural Communities in the Southeast.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau announced the release of the Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the replacement of the pier at Scorpion Anchorage on East Santa Cruz Island.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Vicksburg National Military Park is open having secured limited portable toilets for the visitor center and USS Cairo Museum. Free bottled water is available to park visitors at both locations for their visit. Visitors are encouraged to take water and hydrate. Daytime temperatures are expected to exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit for the next few days.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 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 US DOT Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Committee leaders today introduced bipartisan legislation to address the rising costs of disasters in the United States, reduce the toll of future losses, and reauthorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the first time in the agency’s history.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, has been arraigned on federal cyber fraud charges associated with the 2008 hack and theft of banking credentials from RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company located in Atlanta, Georgia. Seleznev was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that on May 17, 2017, in federal court, ISMAEL AZUA-RINCONADA, 27, of Mexico, was convicted following a three-day trial before United States District Judge Louise Wood Flanagan. The jury found the defendant guilty of Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: TOLEDO, Ohio - Two Toledo men were criminally charged after DEA agents arrested them for distributing six kilograms of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") announced that ANTHONY WEINER was charged with, and pled guilty to, transferring obscene...
