News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN BOHANNON, 28, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 160 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that, Booker T. Sewell, age 37 of Fort Wayne, IN was sentenced, before United States District Court Chief Judge Theresa Springmann after being convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: CEDARVILLE, Calif. - Fire crews from the Bureau of Land Management will conduct prescribed burning projects in Modoc, Siskiyou, and Lassen counties, California, and in Washoe County, Nevada, during fall and early winter. Pile burning could start during the week of Oct. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Friday, October 6, 2017, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Bridgette Durborow, 48, of St. Peters, Missouri, to 24 months in prison for Bank Robbery, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Durborow was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following her imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victim’s Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former principal of a Boston-area accounting firm pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to conspiring with the former president of a Gloucester seafood processing company and other executives to defraud the company and its majority shareholder, and to avoid paying taxes on the proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: A Tacoma, Washington woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to unlawful possession of a destructive device, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. KENNI JO BENNETT, 41, of Tacoma, and an accomplice, placed the explosive device under a Kia Forte sedan parked outside a Tacoma home ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announces that, Booker T. Sewell, age 37 of Fort Wayne, IN was sentenced, before United States District Court Chief Judge Theresa Springmann after being convicted by a jury for being a felon in possession of a firearm and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Michael Caraher, age 27, of Morrisville, New York, pled guilty today to one count of distribution of child pornography, three counts of receipt of child pornography and four counts of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN BOHANNON, 28, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 160 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for drug trafficking and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Daniel Rice, 53, of Stoughton, Massachusetts, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to three months home confinement, followed by two years supervised release, by U.S. Senior District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Firefighters with the Northwest Colorado Fire Management Unit could ignite a prescribed burn on Bureau of Land Management lands in the Douglas Mountain area in Moffat County as early as the week of Oct. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Federal charges have been filed against three people after investigators seized 20 pounds of methamphetamine from a house in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Former Border Patrol Agent Caught with Precursors for Fentanyl Manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal jury has convicted Arthur Clark, 29, of Buffalo, NY, of the sole charge against him, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute marijuana. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Patrick C. Harris, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Elbert Harris, 57, of Pine Bluff, pleaded guilty to an information charging him with wire fraud. Harris stole more than $1 million intended to feed children in low income areas.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s interim final rules that will make it much easier for companies to interfere in their employees’ health care choices and force women to pay more for an essential part of their health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A high-ranking member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his role in orchestrating a murder, participating in a separate attempted murder, and conspiring to distribute crack-cocaine, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Former Upstate New York Democratic Party Chair Indicted for Bribery Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits to Distributing, Receiving and Possessing Child Pornography.
