News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: A man found with nearly a pound of methamphetamine was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - The Caribbean Parks of the National Park Service are quickly and safely moving forward with stabilization efforts and offering a variety of public access and visitor services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Citlaly Casillas, 22, of Columbus, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit kidnapping following a failed drug transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Ohio man who defrauded multiple NFL players - including a player for the Kansas City Chiefs - out of nearly $25,000 earmarked for charitable causes, has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC- Captain Chelsey (“Sully") Sullenberger, best known as the pilot of the “Miracle on the Hudson", made a strong case against H.R. 2997, the “21st Century AIRR Act", which includes a controversial plan to privatize the Nation’s air traffic control system and hand control of our public airspace...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: FBI is Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal agents have arrested 17 members and associates of the Nine Trey Gangster Bloods criminal street gang on charges of RICO conspiracy and related charges stemming from an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Oct. 12, 2017. A total of 30 gang members and associates were indicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Nancy Lopez Perez, 42, of Lemoore, California, charging her with two counts of distributing methamphetamine and three counts of being a felon in possession of firearms, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Bank Robbery Press Release. The Englewood Police Department and FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are investigating the following bank robbery: First Bank. 3531 South Logan Street. Englewood, Colorado. Sept. 29, 2017, 2:03 p.m. The suspect is described as a white male, blonde hair, with...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Federal agents have arrested 17 members and associates of the Nine Trey Gangster Bloods criminal street gang on charges of RICO conspiracy and related charges stemming from an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Oct. 12, 2017. A total of 30 gang members and associates were indicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Clinton Kent French, age 32, of Lexington, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c). Additionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant is Charged with Assault on a Federal Officer and Using and Carrying an Explosive to Commit a Federal Felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow today sentenced William Tyler Burrows, 33, of the 1800 block of 2nd Street, Moline, Ill., to serve 121 months in prison for receiving child pornography, as announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Patrick Hansen, Central District of Illinois. Judge Darrow further ordered that Burrows remain on supervised release for life upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA); Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; James D. Robnett, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: A Dubuque man who participated in a scheme to defraud victims across the United States have pled guilty in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service invites members of the public who have an interest in rock climbing at New River Gorge National River and Gauley River National Recreation Area to a public meeting on November 4, 2017, from 5:30-7:30 pm at the Canyon Rim Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - A jury voted yesterday to convict two men of conspiring to defraud the Laurentian Aerospace Corporation (“Laurentian") of $2.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. encourages the public to participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Takeback Day. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017, at thousands of collection sites around the country, including over 50 here in the Northern District of Iowa. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former resident of Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT - Stabilization efforts at Sperry Chalet have been completed for the winter. A crew of 10 flew up to the chalet on October 4. They braced walls, gables, windows, and chimneys. The chalet dormitory building was badly burned on August 31 during the Sprague Fire.
