News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement applauding a new website, Oversight.gov, launched yesterday by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE):
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: A Brunswick man was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for having more than 100,000 images and 1,000 videos of child sex abuse, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Alfonso Mercado-Cruz, 32, of Chiapas, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 151 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT KUSS, 55, of Cheshire, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding the U.S. Postal Service of nearly $750,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Robbery was sentenced on Oct. 2, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Orange, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 150 months in prison his role in the September 2015 armed robbery of a club in Passaic, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Columbus, Ohio man was indicted by a federal grand jury on bank robbery, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa. - Tucked away in a wooded spot overlooking the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania is Friendship Hill National Historic Site, home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849). Gallatin is best known for serving as Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - On Oct. 16, the Bureau of Land Management will begin repairing fire and flood damage to trails in the Fort Sage Off-Highway-Vehicle area in southern Lassen County. The BLM is asking riders to be careful in all sections of the OHV area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Oct. 2, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Yesterday, the last of eight defendants involved in a Glynn County-area drug trafficking organization was sentenced in federal court. Derrick J. Young, 41, of Atlanta, Georgia was sentenced to 52 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood following his guilty plea...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Salvadoran national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to an immigration crime. Amilcar Menjivar Umana, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of illegal reentry after deportation. U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs scheduled sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: A felon and drug user who possessed a stolen firearm was sentenced yesterday to more than five years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $3.9 million contract for construction of the GK Lateral and Silt Pump Canal Pipelines. The contract was awarded to ESCO Construction Company from Evergreen, Colo.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Fall Prescribed Burning at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Wearing Red Milwaukee Sweatshirt Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cruz Abeita, 27, of Algodones, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to conspiracy and violating the Hobbs Act. The charges arise out of the Dec. 30, 2016, robbery of the Dancing Eagle Travel Center in Cibola County, N.M. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Abeita will be sentenced within the range of 84 to 120 months in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Wright: . We appreciate that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the current Administration, continues to identify our nation’s opioid epidemic as a top priority. As you are aware, the opioid epidemic is having a devastating impact on American lives. According...
