News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Floyd Barber, 22, Jherrica Dixon, 23, and Kurt Wallace, 25, each of Saint Louis, were indicted in a ten-count federal indictment this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Five Laredoans have been ordered to prison following their convictions for their roles in smuggling firearms into Mexico, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Fourteen defendants have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed yesterday, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a Dallas-based criminal street gang known as “YNB Stretch Gang" and a drug distribution group known as “2600 Money Block," announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 211,987 visits in October 2017, down 12.40 percent from October 2016, which saw 242,004 visits. The busiest October was in 2015 and saw 252,013 visits.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: A Toronto resident was arrested in Orlando, Florida, this morning based on federal charges filed in the Northern District of Ohio for coercion and enticement, and transfer of obscene material to minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Final Defendant Heading To Prison In Corruption Probe.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va - Learn how the Civil War affected the holiday season of 1864 by joining the living history staff and volunteers at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park for talks, tours, and special exhibits on Saturday and Sunday, December 2 and 3. During the event, Captain Flagg’s US Quartermaster...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
Release: Report to Congress on Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Washington - U.S. agricultural exports totaled $140.5 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2017, climbing nearly $10.9 billion from the previous year to the third-highest level on record, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today. As it has done for well over 50 years, the U.S. agricultural sector once again posted an annual trade surplus, which reached $21.3 billion, up almost 30 percent from last year’s $16.6 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the sentencing of the former Ballard County Judge Executive and Ballard County Treasurer, in United States District Court, by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell, for their individual roles in securing and then concealing unauthorized bank loans.
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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Congressional Black Caucus Chair, Cedric L. Richmond, Ranking Member, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers Jr., and CBC Judicial Nominations Working Group Chair, Eleanor Holmes Norton sent a letter to United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman, Chuck Grassley, urging him to uphold the longstanding blue slip policy, which prevents the Committee from considering a judicial nominee without the approval of both Senators from the nominee’s state.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
Release: CHICAGO - Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) joined the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) today to debut new automated screening lanes at Midway International Airport. The TSA and CDA have been working collaboratively on the addition of these new lanes as part of Midway’s security checkpoint modernization project as well as in preparation for the busy Thanksgiving holiday travel period.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $5.5 million in federally funded financial assistance for cost-shared research and development projects under the first phase of the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) Advanced Components for 65% Combined-Cycle Efficiency, SCO2 Power Cycles and Advanced Modular Hybrid Heat Engines.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the Finance Committee’s passage of the Senate Republicans’ tax bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that William Gaudet, 51, formerly of Wells, Maine, was convicted today following a four-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of transporting a minor interstate intending to engage in criminal sexual activity and interstate travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that federal fraud charges were filed this week against six additional individuals for their participation in an international "Tech Support Scam." In a Tech Support Scam, the scammer attempts to convince the victim that he or she has a serious computer problem, and then tries to sell the victim unnecessary products and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - In Aug. 2016, a multi-agency investigation led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) concluded with the filing of 59 federal indictments and a federal criminal complaint charging 103 Bernalillo County residents with federal firearms and narcotics trafficking offenses. To date, 80 of the 103 defendants charged as the result of this investigation have entered guilty pleas and 50 of them have been sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Lorenzo Bratcher, 23, and Isaiah Buck, 21, both of Cincinnati, with conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence in an indictment returned in Cincinnati. Bratcher was also charged with possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense.
