News from November 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Wichita restaurant owner was sentenced Monday to 108 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 20, 2017, Anthony R. Chaplin (age: 40) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine resulting in the death of another, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C).

By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on North Korea...

By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposes to acquire up to 8,863 acre-feet of water for the East Bear Creek Unit of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge. Reclamation has prepared a Finding of No Significant Impact and Environmental Assessment which details its proposed action to enter into an amended agreement with Merced Irrigation District for the temporary water acquisition through Aug. 25, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has charged a San Pedro man with threatening to murder United States Representative Maxine Waters in a phone call to her Capitol Hill office last month.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: The FBI Seeks Public's Assistance in Armed Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel announced that Maurice Adonis Withers, 28, Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 18 years in federal prison for trafficking five female victims. This prison term will be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man was sentenced Monday to more than 19 years in federal prison for the November 2015 armed assault on two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Pursuant to a joint investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Chi Ping Patrick Ho, a/k/a “Patrick C.P. Ho," and Cheikh Gadio were arrested for their participation in...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Fruita, CO - The Saddlehorn Visitor Center at Colorado National Monument will be closed for the Thanksgiving (11/23), Christmas (12/25) and New Year’s Day (1/1/2018) holidays. Rim Rock Drive, Saddlehorn campground (Loop A) and the rest of the monument will remain open as winter weather permits.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: 26 INDIVIDUALS FACE A VARIETY OF DRUG-RELATED CHARGES.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Westmoreland man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy, including conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston woman was sentenced today to five days in federal prison for a methamphetamine crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Holly Doub, 34, previously pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Amado Colon, age 21, of Albany, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Catching cancer early can make all the difference for successful treatment. A common screening practice measures tumor growth with X-ray computed tomography (CT), which takes a series of cross-section images of the body.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Keith Bleau, age 51, of Johnsonville, New York, pled guilty today to receiving and possessing child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD PISKE, 34, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin that contributed to an overdose death of a Bridgeport woman last year.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Three Defendants Responsible for Fatal Shooting Outside Mermaid Houses in Brooklyn.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Robert Gene Rand, a Reno physician who operated Rand Family Care, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter of a patient and unlawful distribution of oxycodone, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.