News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: A federal prosecutor who spent a year in Afghanistan as the Justice Attaché and a Special Deputy United States Marshal returned to his duties today as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in Sioux City, Iowa.
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: SAN FRANCISCO - Mariano Ramos-Lopez was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute nearly a kilogram of heroin, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable William H. Orrick, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two men today admitted their respective roles in an international drug trafficking organization, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division announced today that the DEA will conduct its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event on Saturday, October 28th between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senate HELP Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement today on President Trump’s opioid announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida- Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Alvoid Kennon (39, Bradenton) guilty of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 17, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The herd is here. They have come to thank Theodore Roosevelt for leading the charge in the conservation movement and preserving their habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Sanchez, 29, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to firearms charges under a plea agreement that recommends a seven-year prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LUIS CHAVEZ-LOPEZ, age 31, a native of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman Udall, and Members of the Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House voted to pass the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution, which includes reconciliation instructions allowing the Ways and Means Committee to move forward with tax reform legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging six people with conspiring to commit bank and wire fraud, conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park plan to take advantage of any upcoming wet or winter weather conditions to burn piles of slash generated from several fuels reduction projects and hazard tree removals. Slash from these projects has been cut and piled by park fire crews and contractors during the last two years and are now dry enough to burn.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY-Grand Teton National Park will host a special astronomy program Saturday, October 28 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The program, “Half the Park is After Dark Star Party," will be hosted by interpretive park rangers and volunteers in partnership with Wyoming Stargazing at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Moose. The event is free and open to the public of all ages, and programming will be available in both English and Spanish.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - James Smith, 28, of Battle Creek, Michigan, received a 20 year sentence in federal prison for sex trafficking a minor, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Smith is the fourth defendant sentenced in this case, which arose out of the sex trafficking of two local...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - U.S. Attorney Beth Drake will join the DEA on October 28th for its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at thousands of collection sites around the country, including over 65 locations across South Carolina. 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: POCATELLO - Lataya Anderson and Matthew Toombs, of Pocatello, pleaded guilty this week to possession of a methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Anderson and Toombs were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Goldsmith Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in federal court in Boston.
