News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 48 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. - Markell Reyes, age 20, of Jersey City, New Jersey, pled guilty today to possessing and intending to distribute crack cocaine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Cloud Computing Dangers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Charlotte Murder Suspect Alejandro Castillo Added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office hosted a conference yesterday aimed at bringing together educators, school administrators, advocates, and community members to learn and share ideas about preventing and effectively responding to hate speech in K-12 schools in Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 35-year-old woman from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, has been ordered to prison following her conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Maria De Jesus Castillo-Flores pleaded guilty Oct. 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to 100 months in prison for cocaine and firearm possession.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) announced a bicameral agreement to pair concrete, structural Obamacare reforms with a temporary two-year funding extension for the health law’s cost-sharing reduction (CSR) program. This would provide Americans with more certainty and choice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Armed Bank Robbery Fugitive Malcolm Lorenzo Jones Arrested Today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to an announcement that Chairmen Trey Gowdy and Bob Goodlatte are opening a partisan Republican investigation into decisions made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2016...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nominations of Jeffrey Gerrish to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative, Gregory Doud to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Jason Kearns to serve as a member of the International Trade Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 24, 2017, Brandon Douglas Shanahan, 23, of Sweetwater, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 30 months in federal prison for extortion using the computer application SnapChat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - E. Stanley Hoff, 68, of Westerville, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of threatening to assault and murder a United States official.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - 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 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James S. Sedillo, 40, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 63 months in prison for violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Sedillo will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Hurricane Sandy made landfall nearly five years ago, on Oct. 29, 2012. Among the hardest hit by the record-breaking storm were coastal communities in New York and New Jersey and 15 national parks, including Fire Island National Seashore. Since 2012, the National Park Service (NPS) has invested more than $273 million in federal recovery funding to restore access to and enhance resiliency at these coastal parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Crawfordsville, Ind., man, Nehemiah Lafoe, 23, appeared in federal court today in Urbana for arraignment on charges of sexual exploitation of a child and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Lafoe appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Eric I. Long who scheduled trial for Dec. 12, 2017.
