News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three officers with the Pomona Police Department (PPD) surrendered earlier today to face federal charges that allege one officer violated the civil rights of a minor who was beaten at the Los Angeles County Fair two years ago, and that all three took illegal steps to justify and cover-up the attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that William Salazar, age 41, of Gary, Indiana entered a guilty plea of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity before Judge Phillip Simon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Oct. 25, 2017, United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Louis Bracey, age 41, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to 151 months’ imprisonment for his role in a drug conspiracy.
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, has prepared and made available for public comment a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the North American Eagle Land Speed Record Challenger (NAE) proposal. The EA describes the potential impacts of issuing a Special Recreation...
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 Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Treasury Department’s announcement today that it will begin to roll back several overreaching tax regulations that now impose significant burdens on American job creators of all sizes...
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) has named Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA) chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL) the committee’s vice chairman. The moves follow Rep. Jeff Duncan’s (R-SC) departure from the committee earlier this week.
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: Seneca Falls, NY - Women’s Rights National Historical Park will be proudly displaying ‘Carried Objects’: This Exhibition Offers Personal Perspective of Iraqi and Syrian Refugees.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Six people have been charged in a five-count federal indictment with drug trafficking offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, DEA Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fingerprints and Surveillance Video Link Him to the Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - This Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners will give the public its 14th opportunity in seven years to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Imposition of Seven-Year Prison Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -Today’s declaration by President Donald Trump that America’s opioid crisis is a public health emergency underscores the importance of the DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, said U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Bossier City man pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving a vehicle onto Barksdale Air Force Base and damaging property.
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) sent a letter today to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging them to penalize Carlos Rafael - the notorious ‘Codfather’ of New Bedford...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Husband charged with Illegal Voting, Aggravated Identity Theft, and Passport Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected two projects to receive approximately $4 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development for the safe storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in geologic formations.
