News from October 2017
By Commerce News Now | Oct 12, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 12, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Oct. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: August 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Was on Supervised Release for Earlier Armed Robberies.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission meeting previously scheduled for Oct. 17, 2017 has been postponed. The Commission will now convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and U.S. Hwy 41 in Calumet.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former salesman at Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey, company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for conspiring to defraud customers and lying to a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
Release: DALLAS - Officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) today announced that four automated screening lanes are in use in Terminal A at checkpoint A-21 and Terminal D at checkpoint D-22. DFW airport is one of ten airports currently using this state-of-the-art technology, which enhances security efficiency while decreasing the amount of time it takes to screen passengers through the checkpoint.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Mr. Speaker, since Hurricane Harvey wrought historic flooding in Texas, 12 major disasters have been declared.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Damien Anthony Jerome, a/k/a "Dey-Dey", 31, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Oct. 12, 2017, for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Jerome was arrested in Cheyenne, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Logansport man was sentenced Wednesday to 420 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine in Many, La., and kidnapping a victim in east Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former salesman at Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey, company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for conspiring to defraud customers and lying to a federal grand jury, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.

By State Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed the Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535 ). The bipartisan legislation encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging five members and associates of MS-13 with the murder of Christian Alexander Sosa Rivas, 21, on January 1 at a park in Dumfries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sean Stinson, 33, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to time-served (406 days) in custody for using interstate communications to threaten the lives and safety of Las Cruces Police Department (LCPD) officers. Stinson will be on supervised release for three years.

By State Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the U.S. decision to withdraw from UNESCO...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: HELENA - Barbara Jean Satrom, 33, of Missoula was sentenced today to serve 27 months in prison and five years on supervised release for her participation in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribution and distribution of methamphetamine. The charge stemmed from a one-count superseding information filed in May of this year. Satrom entered a guilty plea to the single count in June. U.S. District Court Judge Charles C. Lovell issued the sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: He Has Been Removed From the USA on Two Previous Occasions.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: A Toledo felon was indicted for using a firearm during the robbery of a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop last month, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman, Toledo Police Chief George Kral and Trevor Velinor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kenge Lewis, III, age 24, of York, Pennsylvania, the first of the nine individuals indicted as a result of a joint ATF-York County Drug Task Force operation in York, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Oct. 11, 2017, before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.