News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested a South Los Angeles man who allegedly made a series of online threats to kill law enforcement personnel and others at the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Inglewood Courthouse, a nearby school and a private business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A cardiologist with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, and his wife pleaded guilty today to their involvement in a test-referral bribe scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After a recent report found that six projects in Afghanistan costing almost $400 million are at risk of failure, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is demanding answers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Natchez, Miss - Shawanda Matthews, 31, and Veronica Thomas, 37, both of McComb, Mississippi, were sentenced on Nov. 14, 2017, by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III, for their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for distributing heroin in Hoboken, New Jersey, on multiple occasions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Michael Hegarty, an Irish national, was sentenced in federal court in Miami, Florida, yesterday to 18 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for fraudulently facilitating the transportation and concealment of a libation cup carved from the horn of an endangered rhinoceros...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Jeffrey Reed, Resident Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), announced today that five-time convicted felon Andre Smalley, 33, of Little Rock, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for his illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Level 2 sex offender from Douglas pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to possession of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is seeking answers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about nearly $1 billion it is awarding to contractors for repairing the electrical grid in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: On Nov. 14, 2017, the defendant, Joseph P. Totoro, II, 51 of Wayne, PA was sentenced to a term of 25 years of incarceration, 10 years of supervised release, and a $725 special assessment for the sexual abuse of a child over a two year time period. The defendant was convicted in August 2017 of attempted...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have trafficked heroin and methamphetamine in Indianapolis area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DELWIN McLAREN, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of participating in a drug conspiracy and a firearms conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced McLAREN to serve 192 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, and a $200 special assesment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DELWIN McLAREN, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after having previously been found guilty of participating in a drug conspiracy and a firearms conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced McLAREN to serve 192 months in prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, and a $200 special assesment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Approximately 200 seventh grade students at the Hugh B. Bain Middle School in Cranston today spent the morning today engaged in an interactive discussion about gangs and street violence during a presentation of the United States Attorney’s Office’s Street Smarts program. Street Smarts...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Douglas Peacock for traveling to a foreign country and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Kemmerer, WY- The gravel road north of the Fossil Butte National Monument picnic area is closed to vehicle use for the season. It will reopen when conditions allow, in the spring of 2018. This decision is based on predicted winter weather, and unsafe conditions for late season travel on the upper road.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service, California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), and the Ventura Master Gardeners welcome the public to attend the opening of a native plant demonstration garden on Saturday, December 2 at 10:30 am at Channel Islands National Park in Ventura Harbor. The Channel Islands Park Foundation will also be hosting a native plant sale at the park visitor center from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Allegheny County brothers have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with a violation of the federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) achieved an important step towards restoring U.S. nuclear energy transient testing capability with the resumption of operations at the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) Facility. The TREAT facility has been shut down and maintained in standby status since 1994.
