News from November 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Mexican nationals were sentenced today to two terms of life in prison for the murder of a federal officer, attempted murder of a federal officer, and related offenses in the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE HSI Special Agent Victor Avila on Feb. 15, 2011, in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for robbing three banks in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for robbing three banks in May 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A man who has been convicted of a dozen prior felonies pleaded guilty today to cocaine and firearms offenses in Newport News.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) members Jesse Santibanez, age 29, and Alfredo Cardona, age 36, in connection with the death of Balcones Heights Police Officer Julian Pesina in 2014 announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.; Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw; and, San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Three Boston-area residents, including a former Gillette employee, were sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with the online sales of stolen Gillette razor blades.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s investigation into tainted alcohol at Mexican resorts was featured during a segment on ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ Monday morning. The committee’s investigation began this summer after reports of Wisconsinites being injured or dying while traveling to Mexican resorts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Gilbert to be Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - Efforts to keep the Greater Sage-grouse off the Endangered Species List are underway. Now the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is asking the public’s opinion whether the existing sagebrush conservation plans are sufficient or need to be improved.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH - Carlos Cortinas, 39, of Arlington, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 168 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT ABEL, 55, of St. Augustine, Florida, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of bank robbery and also admitted to two armed robberies in Florida and a carjacking in South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Charles Cory Thornton (37, Yulee) has pleaded guilty to using hidden cameras in his bathroom to produce pornographic images and videos of an unsuspecting child. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today called on Health and Human Services (HHS) Acting Secretary Eric Hargan to provide details about the department's decision to waste $1.1 million in an effort to sabotage open enrollment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Two associates of the Genovese La Cosa Nostra (LCN) crime family pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to extortion-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Posed as Documentary Filmmaker to Entice and Blackmail Women into Commercial Sex Activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Luis J. Cotto, a/k/a “Luis Pereira," age 31, of New York, was arrested, following the unsealing of a Second Superseding Indictment charging an array of federal narcotics and firearm violations by members of a drug trafficking organization operating in south Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: Appomattox, Va. - Join us in historic downtown Appomattox on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 from 10a.m. - 6 p.m. for a day filled with holiday festivities, entertainment, and eats with our first annual Experience the Holidays celebration. This event is being hosted by the newly formed Appomattox Tourism...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bayonne, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing Bayonne Community Bank in Jersey City, New Jersey, on May 25, 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kevin Scott was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking crime, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
