News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Rogelio Bernal-Pastrana, of Southampton, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about March 10, 2017, Bernal-Pastrana, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Dec. 17, 2010 and Nov. 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Palmer man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to his role in a conspiracy to import prescription drugs from Pakistan.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials today announced the results of stepped up efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the departments to target and dismantle MS-13 - culminating in the arrest of 267 in the U.S. and overseas.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross today named two small businesses, one city government, and two health care organizations as the 2017 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the Baldrige Award is a Presidential-level honor, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jeremy A. Churchill, age 37, from Cabot, Vermont, made an initial appearance on Nov. 15, 2017 before United States Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy in Burlington on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Deanthony Foster has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for participating in armed robberies of seven commercial businesses in the Atlanta area, including Wal-Mart Stores and Citgo Stores. Foster carried a gun in all of the robberies, pointed the gun at employees, and actually shot into the floor at one of the Wal-Mart robberies while demanding money. He coordinated with other individuals who acted as lookouts by cell phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury has returned a new indictment in a racketeering case targeting the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) street gang that adds a murder charge stemming from a previously unsolved 2012 homicide, Acting United States Attorney Sandra R. Brown announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Charges Include Seven Counts Obtaining Controlled Susbstance By Fraud, Seven Counts Use Of Another Person's Registration Number To Obtain Controlled Substance By Fraud, And One Count Each Of Attempts Of Same.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant allegedly supplied opioids that led to fatal overdose.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Robbery team terrorized stores around the Midwest.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that David Tyler Nelson, a 22 year old, resident of Coden, Alabama was found guilty of possession of a firearm after conviction of a felony.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: For more than a decade, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been unveiling experimental next-generation atomic clocks. These clocks, based on ytterbium, strontium, aluminum, and mercury atoms, among others, have set records for precision and stability.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: At U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnerships are key to the success of the agency.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Muir Woods Parking and Shuttle Reservations Launch Jan. 16, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after he was arrested trying to film people showering at Geneva State Park, law enforcement officials said.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), released the following statements on Thursday following a Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General report finding secret wait lists at a number of Colorado VA facilities. Johnson and Gardner requested the inspector general investigation in September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that James Nehls, 31, Lone Rock, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Nehls pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ARPA-E today announced $20 million in funding for 15 projects that will develop a new class of sensor systems to enable significant energy savings via reduced demand for heating and cooling in residential and commercial buildings. ARPA-E’s Saving Energy Nationwide in Structures with Occupancy Recognition...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Bruce Trenshel Davis, aka “Wheatie," 25, of Shreveport, Louisiana and Brandon Ray Austin, aka “Pep," 31, of Fort Worth, Texas, appeared yesterday in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton, on a federal criminal complaint stemming from their attempt to threaten...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: With the Senate Finance Committee now in its fourth day of marking up its comprehensive tax reform proposal, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican Senators highlighted the significant tax cuts low-to middle income Americans would experience under their plan.
