News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Syles Kealoha, 23, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal bank robbery charge for a hold-up in August 2016 in Southeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Update: Man with Facial Scars Robs Albuquerque Bank, Seen with Woman at Gas Station.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Kaisle J. Raikes, 25, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking and firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley of the District of New Hampshire announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DARREKA BOYKINS, age 41, of Houma, pled guilty yesterday to an Indictment charging him with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney R. Trent Shores announced the DEA will hold the 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, October 28th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at ten collection sites throughout the Northern District of Oklahoma. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Fulton, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally manufacturing a firearm suppressor, or “silencer," following his arrest for harassing a state worker involved with him losing custody of his children.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: With cybersecurity for the energy sector emerging as one of the most serious challenges associated with grid modernization and infrastructure protection, maintaining a robust pipeline of cutting-edge technologies is essential to helping the energy sector continue adapting to the changing cyber landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man will be serving more than 40 years in prison for the attempted robbery and robbery of the Shared Resources Credit Union and for using and carrying a firearm during commission of the crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury deliberated for less than five hours before convicting Raynard Gray, 34, and Sonny Pervis, 28, March 23, 2017, on all counts as charged following a three-day-trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man will be serving more than 40 years in prison for the attempted robbery and robbery of the Shared Resources Credit Union and for using and carrying a firearm during commission of the crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A federal jury deliberated for less than five hours before convicting Raynard Gray, 34, and Sonny Pervis, 28, March 23, 2017, on all counts as charged following a three-day-trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This afternoon, a federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found John Leroy Milne, 56, of Phoenix, Ariz., guilty on marijuana trafficking charges and acquitted his co-defendant following a three-day trial. Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney, Acting Special Agent in Charge Steve Borak of the El Paso Division of the DEA and Chief Patrol Agent Jeffrey D. Self of the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso Sectorannounced the verdict.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: In a program airing Nov. 2, 2017, at 7:30 p.m. Mountain time, Rocky Mountain PBS’ “Uranium Mania" explores the controversial legacy of uranium mining in Colorado and its ties to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Project, and curing (and causing) cancer. The program is part of “Colorado Experience," a series that explores the people, events, and places that have shaped Colorado.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed his H.R. 1698, the Iran Ballistic Missiles and International Sanctions Enforcement Act, by a vote of 423 to 2...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Next week, the House will vote on H.R. 2936, the “Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017." Introduced by Rep. Westerman (R-AR), the bipartisan bill reduces the risk of catastrophic wildfire and dramatically improves the health and resiliency of federal forests and grasslands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Alshura Tabil Annessa Frazier, age 36, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, for sex trafficking of children, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) (1) and for possession of a firearm during...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Child and Her Relatives Were Tenants in Defendant’s Home.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Old Bridge, New Jersey, man was arrested today for allegedly using phony payments and false identity theft claims to deceive credit card companies and banks into giving him funds and credit, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered the following opening statement today at a Committee hearing discussing Free Speech on Campus. Senators on both sides of the aisle agreed that freedom of speech...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 24, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a woman who allegedly stole a vehicle from a residence on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Danielle R. Kaquatosh...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Quiet does not settle here. The busy LaSalle U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center opened in the fall of 2007. Located in Jena, Louisiana, a town that covers about five square miles, it functions as an ICE-dedicated detention center with a maximum capacity of 1,320 beds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Wednesday, a federal jury in New Bern found JAMES CURTIS DENTON guilty of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine and possession and transportation of an explosive by a drug user with the intent to injure or kill an individual.
