News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that URMILA SRI THAKUR, also known as Urmila Buddhu-Thakur and Indro Buddhu-Thakur, 73, of Wethersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to four years of probation, the first four months of which THAKUR must serve in home confinement, for her role in a fraudulent debt elimination scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane announced that KARL ROYE, also known as “Eagle," 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a life term of imprisonment for committing the murder of Anthony Parker of Hartford in April 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp announced the reopening of Christiansted National Historic Site and Buck Island Reef National Monument on the island of St. Croix and Trunk Bay Beach at Virgin Islands National Park on the island...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Darin Devon Hurd, age 25, of Winona Lake, Indiana was charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Operator of Purported Durable Medical Equipment Providers Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Charges for Role in Durable Medical Equipment Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Grants, NM - El Malpais National Monument is hosting educational programs focusing on the night sky from November, 2017 to February, 2018. One day each month, National Park Service Rangers will explore what can be seen in El Malpais’ pristine night sky. These 30-45 minute talks will be followed by outdoor telescope viewing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 33-year-old man from Duncanville has been ordered to prison following his convictions for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. William Sonak pleaded guilty June 26, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
Release: NEW YORK - The number of passengers expected to be screened at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints across the country this Thanksgiving season is expected to be extremely high. From last Friday, November 17th through Monday, November 28th, more than 24 million travelers-one of TSA’s busiest Thanksgivings on record--will be screened at airport checkpoints during the holiday travel period, a 6 percent increase compared to last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: HONOLULU - Anil Uskanli, age 26, of Turkey, was sentenced today to time-served (six months) in federal prison, and ordered to pay restitution of $8,525.00 for interfering with American Airlines flight crew members and attendants while aboard a May 19, 2017 flight from Los Angeles, California to Honolulu, Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Law enforcement officers of the Bureau of Land Management are conducting a driving under the influence and registration checkpoint between noon to 2 a.m., from Nov. 21 to 26, on public lands in the unincorporated areas of Imperial County, to include the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area.
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 Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH - Fort Pulaski National Monument will commemorate the 155th anniversary of the Grand Thanksgiving Fete and Festival of 1862 on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. The event will recreate the field day offered by the 48th New York Infantry to celebrate their first Thanksgiving at Fort Pulaski.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bryana Agnes Henio, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Little Water, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Permits for cutting Christmas trees on Bureau of Land Management lands are available in Silt at the Colorado River Valley Field Office, 2300 River Frontage Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Ingham, 29, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute a controlled substance before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Daniel Shertzer, 30, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to five years of probation for failure to pay child support. He was also ordered to pay $57,533.75 in restitution. Shertzer pleaded guilty on July 17, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced $98,495,397 in grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to 179 law enforcement agencies across the nation, which allows those agencies to hire 802 additional full-time law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: Seeking Assistance in Daniel Jason Wnek Social Media Victimization Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A total of nine men have been arrested following multiple enforcement actions in Brownsville, Corpus Christi and Crowley, Louisiana, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN REED, 32, of Enfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
