News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Teng Her, aka Iron Foot, 26, of Colfax, Wis., was sentenced on Oct. 20, 2017 to six years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge William Conley for distributing methamphetamine. This term of imprisonment is to be followed by five years of supervised release. Her pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney SHAWN N. ANDERSON, for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), will join the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on October 28th for its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service’s Gates of the Arctic National Park Subsistence Resource Commission is meeting in Fairbanks on Tuesday, November 14 and Wednesday, November 15 at the Sophie Station Hotel Board Room. The hotel is located at 1717 University Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska. The meeting will begin at 9:00 am on Tuesday and adjourn for the day at 5:00 pm. It will resume at 9:00 am on Wednesday and conclude at 11:30 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ***MEDIA ADVISORY***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Carol Casto will honor more than 60 law enforcement officers, victim advocates, and community leaders during the 2017 U.S. Attorney’s Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at noon at the Robert...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEEDLES, Calif. - On Oct. 23, the Bureau of Land Management discovered an informational panel went missing from the Historic Route 66 California Gateway Site, south of Needles. The site is located near the intersection of Five Mile Road and Interstate 40 in San Bernardino County, CA.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Grandview, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms, including a stolen firearm connected to a triple homicide and a series of business burglaries in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man was arrested and charged for the trafficking of multi-kilo quantities of heroin, as well as multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine, which were to be distributed in the Anchorage area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Five Chinese Citizens and Four Chinese Companies Indicted in Scheme to Sell Mislabeled Dietary Supplements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Thirty-nine people were indicted in federal court for their roles in two separate conspiracies to obtain large amounts of heroin, and in some cases, other drugs, from out of state and sell the drugs in Mansfield, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Héctor Trujillo, a Former Constitutional Court Judge in Guatemala, Ordered to Pay Restitution to Guatemalan Soccer Federation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y.) - Sean T. Dubanowich, 43, of Stillwater, New York, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for distributing steroids throughout the country and laundering his drug proceeds overseas for the purpose of acquiring more steroids to sell.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - John Kenny, 26, pleaded guilty to federal charges of armed carjacking and being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the guilty plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today laid out a set of principles that Democrats will be looking for in any tax reform legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Robert J. Higdon, Jr., District Attorney Scott Thomas, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announce the arrests yesterday of eight defendants pursuant to three federal indictments for drug and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - David Morris, 57, of Columbia, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today in federal court to possessing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with the Wyndham Southbury Hotel in Southbury, Connecticut, to resolve allegations that the hotel had not been operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"). D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.c. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) issued the following statement on Iraq...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: PORT ANGELES, WA: The Olympic Hot Springs Road in the Elwha Valley will be inaccessible to public travel above the Glines Canyon Overlook beginning Monday, October 30 through Thursday, November 2 for necessary road repairs and culvert replacement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a cocaine conspiracy.
