News from October 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Oct. 17, 2017, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced David K. Shaqfeh, age 49, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, to two years’ probation, five months’ home confinement, and a $55,000 fine for witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 26-year-old man from Galveston County has entered a guilty plea to receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Conspirators Involved in Distribution of Heroin, Meth and Cocaine in Washington, Nevada and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Individual Believed to Be Known as the Shaky Bandit.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - Krystle Sheals, 32, of Marion, Arkansas, has been indicted on federal charges of devising a scheme to defraud and obtain money and funds through false pretenses and the impersonation of a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: On Oct. 18, 2017, Justin M. Rice, 27, Sparta, was sentenced to federal prison for a methamphetamine offense, Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ------- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that members of the United States Attorney’s Office and their local, state, and federal law enforcement partners began visiting schools across South Carolina, to meet with students and conduct presentations as a part of South Carolina’s 16th Annual Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - On Oct. 17, the BLM completed their gather of wild horses from the Adobe Town, Salt Wells Creek and Great Divide Basin herd management areas in southwestern Wyoming. As stewards, the BLM manages public lands for the benefit of current and future generations, supporting conservation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Boston - An Everett man was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiring with others to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and passing and uttering counterfeit money, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Improvements underway along Northside Drive and Camp 4 Campground.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Results of Operation Cross Country XI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Co-Conspirator Previously Sentenced to 57 Months.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Richard Pham, 42, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was sentenced last week in federal court on charges involving his illegal attempt to possess with intent to distribute two kilograms of cocaine and his participation...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging 12 individuals with selling heroin mixed with fentanyl in Oakland County and elsewhere, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch. Seven of the defendants were charged with distributing fentanyl and heroin resulting in overdose death and serious bodily injury.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Arkansas man was sentenced in federal court today for making bomb threats to the Cedar County Courthouse in an effort to cancel his own court hearing that he feared would send him to jail.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: He Has Been Removed From the USA on Three Previous Occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAMIAN BARBARITO ROMERO, age 37, of New Orleans, was arrested yesterday after previously being indicted for one-count of possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Laura Alicia Cox, 56, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft of mail matter by a postal employee, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Cox was indicted by a federal grand jury on August 8, 2017.