News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Yarmouth Port man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed heroin and fentanyl throughout Cape Cod.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recently published report to President Trump, which recommends - among other measures - rescinding the 20-year uranium mining moratorium around the Grand Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Barbara H. Hafer, age 73, former Treasurer of Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Oct. 31, 2017, to three years’ probation and a $50,000 fine by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: November is Critical Infrastructure Month, and each week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is highlighting our work in a specific sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment on Oct. 31, 2017, against Mark Cook, age 39, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, charging him with an additional count of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Vincent Graham, a/k/a “Shawn" and “Mac," 33, of Bronx, New York, was indicted yesterday by a grand jury and charged with sex trafficking, drug distribution and transporting individuals in interstate commerce intending that they engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The retired chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department was arrested and charged today with committing a hate crime and violating a man’s civil rights by using excessive force during an arrest, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and FBI Special Agent in Charge Timothy Gallagher announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: On Saturday, November 4, enjoy stories and songs about Great Lakes shipwrecks from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center. Join a ranger for a program called, “Great Lakes Gales" that will focus on what makes the storms so treacherous in the month of...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: EL PASO - Deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) on Tuesday removed a former Colombian national army battalion commander accused of human rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Senior United States District Judge Callie V. S. Granade sentenced Demetrius Patterson, 43, to 33 months imprisonment for failing to register as a sex offender. The judge ordered that Patterson pay a $100 special assessment, receive substance abuse and sex offender treatment, and undergo 25 years of supervised release after completing his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States and the State of Illinois have jointly filed a civil lawsuit accusing the owners of a Chicago-area youth counseling center of defrauding Medicaid out of millions of dollars through a fraudulent billing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -Patrick Roy Wandahsega, 40, of Wilson, Michigan, was found guilty of abusive sexual contact with a child under 12 years, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge, announced today. The trial, which lasted four days, was held before U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan yesterday sentenced Michael Holmes (53, Jacksonville) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for illegal possession of multiple firearms by a convicted felon, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (“crack cocaine"). He was found guilty in a bench trial before Judge Corrigan on Nov. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Former New Orleans Police Department Officer Pleads Guilty to Five Counts of Sexual Battery with a Juvenile.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: Keystone, South Dakota - In commemoration of Veterans Day, on Saturday November 11 parking fees will be waived for veterans visiting Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -Jeremy James Whitebird, age 34 and formerly a resident of Bessemer, MI, was sentenced to 212 months (17 years, 8 months) in federal prison as a result of Whitebird’s involvement in methamphetamine trafficking and unlawful gun possession in Gogebic County, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On Oct. 31, 2017, Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Travis Wayne Clark, 27, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, heather Jean Reekrto 60 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and a consecutive 60 months for possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sean P. Doctor, 50, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of making a false statement under the Clean Air Act, was sentenced to one year probation and fined $2,000 by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Angel Cruz, a/k/a “Papo," 57, was arrested today and charged in federal court in Worcester with one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal inmate already serving a lengthy sentence for a child pornography conviction today admitted possessing images of child pornography while in prison, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
