News from October 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert A. Marangola, who handled the case, stated that shortly after midnight on July 14, 2016, Rochester Police Department officers responded to a motor vehicle crash near the intersection of Hollenbeck Street and Belfour Drive in Rochester. During the crash investigation, officers...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A fugitive captured by the U.S. Marshals at a Suffolk hotel on January 6 was sentenced today to eight years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MOHSEN YOUSSEF, 27, formerly of Vernon, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to fraud offenses relating to a scheme to secure more than $3 million in funding for his purported pita manufacturing business.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: FBI San Francisco and Oakland Police Department Announce Homicide Case Solved.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Update: FBI Releases New Information Related to Thursday's Albuquerque Bank Robbery.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have announced that the University of North Dakota has been awarded a 2-year, $1.5 million contract to sample and characterize U.S. coal-based resources containing high concentrations of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MOHSEN YOUSSEF, 27, formerly of Vernon, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to fraud offenses relating to a scheme to secure more than $3 million in funding for his purported pita manufacturing business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Flameville Legend Boys gang was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Bill Frank Blanchard, 53, of Escondido, California, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Oct. 26, 2017, for manufacturing counterfeit obligations. Blanchard was arrested in Laramie, Wyoming. He received 37 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $80.00 in restitution and a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s September 2017 jobs report...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The former chief financial officer of two Boston-area companies was indicted yesterday with embezzling over $3 million from his former employers.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Rogelio Delgado, 25, a Mexican national illegally residing in Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking and illegally re-entry charges. Delgado will be deported after completing his prison sentence.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Wesley A. Muchow, 51, of Bucyrus, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: A Euclid man was indicted for having cocaine and more than 200 grams of carfentanil, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fruita, CO - To honor veterans who have served our country, Colorado National Monument will offer free entrance to all visitors on November 11 and 12, 2017 in honor of Veterans Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Harry Bolton, 63, of Milford, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to 11 counts of cocaine distribution.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook urges the public to discard unused prescription drugs this weekend at area collection sites during Drug Take-Back Day.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: The Drug Enforcement Administration Is Partnering with Local Law Enforcement Agencies in the Western District to Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to discuss the innovation of emerging cyber technologies that can be used to protect our nation’s electric grids and other critical energy infrastructure from future cyberattacks. The committee heard from representatives of the Pacific Northwest, Oak Ridge and Idaho National Laboratories, Qubitekk, and New Context Services.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (D-MI.) delivered the following remarks the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Oversight of the United States Refugee Admissions Program, before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security