News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Nineteen defendants who were convicted on federal felony offenses stemming from their roles in a drug distribution conspiracy have been sentenced, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued the below statement after introducing H.R. 3776, a bipartisan bill to help keep the internet open, reliable and secure...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Gary Hannold, 42, of Bemus Point, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: A man who was trafficking marijuana while unlawfully possessing a firearm was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted to conspiring with others to sell crack cocaine and possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug conspiracy in Camden, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: A Canadian man indicted on one count of sexual exploitation of a minor, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and Steve Francis, Special Agent in Charge of HSI’s Detroit Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Khalif House was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment and three years’ supervised release by United States District Judge Joan M. Azrack, based on his guilty plea last December to conspiracy to commit armed robberies in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens Counties.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The public is invited to celebrate National Public Lands Day by volunteering with the BLM to help care for the public lands at the historic Trinidad Lighthouse and at the King Range National Conservation Area on California’s North Coast. National Public Lands Day, organized by the National Environmental Education Foundation, is the nation’s largest single day volunteer event for public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man was recently sentenced in United States District Court by Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III to serve 36 months in prison, for defrauding the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) of $789,657.06, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Four U.S. Attorneys' Offices in Districts Affected By Hurricane Irma Establish Task Forces in Combating Disaster Fraud and Urge the Public to Be Vigilant in Reporting Suspected Fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) and Bob Casey (D-PA), and Representatives Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act today, a comprehensive early learning and child care bill to ensure affordable, high-quality child care for working families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Riyad Altallaa, 52, and Muna Alnoubani, 50, both of Hilliard, were each sentenced in U.S. District Court today for conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Altallaa was sentenced to 48 months in prison and Alnoubani was sentenced to 36 months of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced John David Stahlman (35, Longwood) to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison for attempting to persuade, induce, and entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. A federal jury found him guilty on May 24, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY J. ALLEN, 36, of Torrington, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: In a pioneering effort to control, measure and understand magnetism at the atomic level, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a new method for manipulating the nanoscale properties of magnetic materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today after he shot at police officers who were executing a search warrant at his residence.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - Six known gang members of the “Rollin’ 30s" Crips street gang are being charged with racketeering, murder, narcotics and firearms offenses. The superseding indictment announced Wednesday stems from a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York and the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An undocumented alien with serious prior convictions has been ordered to serve 120 months in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Tomas Aquino-Pacheco, 38, pleaded guilty June 28, 2017, to illegal re-entry after prior deportation or removal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted on drug and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dejuan Wingard, 22, of Chicago, Illinois was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for his role in a “smash and grab" theft of Chanel handbags at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Plaza Frontenac on Nov. 26, 2016. Wingard is the seventh of thirteen individuals to have pleaded guilty in connection with the offense.
