News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Springfield man pleaded guilty today to attempting to entice an eight-year-old minor to engage in sex during his trip to the Philippines in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that an Opelousas man pleaded guilty to possessing a pistol even though he was previously convicted of a felony and prohibited from possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for conspiring to defraud 76 victims of more than $4 million and evaded paying more than $273,000 in taxes, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Dalton, 34, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition. Dalton will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Superseding Indictment Further Alleges that Nine Defendants Conspired to Lie to U.S. Government Officials About International Financial Transactions for the Government of Iran and Used the U.S. Financial System to Launder Bribes Paid to Conceal the Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve which includes Fort Caroline National Memorial and Kingsley Plantation will be closed as of 5:00 p.m., Thursday, September 7, 2017, due to the approach of Hurricane Irma. The visitor center and grounds at Fort Caroline National Memorial and Kingsley Plantation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Help us combat disaster fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Groomed aspiring young artists to send him explicit images.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: $25,000 Reward Posted for Information on Maple Shade Double Homicide.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - DOE headquarters and site officials will participate in a panel discussion for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus on Wednesday, Sept. 13. Panelists will discuss increasing urgency in EM’s cleanup efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William “Chuckie" Clarett was sentenced to 120 months in prison after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder for hire.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Good morning. I want to welcome and thank our witnesses for testifying today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: Jackson, Miss - James P. Cheatham III, 24, of Brandon, a former federal corrections officer, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III, to serve 15 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $1500 fine, for accepting bribes to introduce...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Lowell man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of tobacco excise taxes between 2012 and 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a list of suggested steps U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos should take to protect survivors of campus assault. According to reports, Secretary DeVos...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Seventeen people were indicted in federal court for their role in a conspiracy to purchase large amounts of powder cocaine, cook the drug into crack cocaine and then sell it in and around Medina County, law enforcement officials said.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: PIKETON, Ohio - Piketon High School sophomore Layne Mooran knew little about the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant when she began a project last year to help EM provide important information about the facility to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: GRAND CANYON, AZ - The National Park Service (NPS) will work with cooperating agencies and partners to reduce the size of the bison herd on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park (Park). The herd is approximately 400 to 600 animals and will be reduced over the next three to five years to fewer than 200 by lethal culling utilizing skilled volunteers and non-lethal capture and transfer to cooperating agencies and tribes.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 6, 2017
News Release: SAN DIEGO - A San Diego federal grand jury has indicted 22 defendants following a long-term probe spearheaded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) into a highly organized, often violent theft ring suspected of stealing more than $20 million worth of merchandise from upscale shopping malls in the San Diego area and nationwide.
