News from September 2017
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - Due to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Spokane District’s commitment to keeping public landscapes healthy and productive, fire restrictions on lands administered by the district have been lifted in eastern Washington. The termination of the regulated fire closure will be effective...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Christopher Allen Cain, age 52, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today for being in possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and being a previously convicted felon ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, led all Committee Democrats in urging their Chairmen, Reps. Trey Gowdy and Lamar Smith, to hold bipartisan hearings on the massive data breach at Equifax, which has been referred to as “one of the largest and most intrusive breaches in history."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant Shot a Man in One Incident, Fired at Police Officers in Another.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Walnut resident has been arrested on federal charges of making a hoax threat by falsely reporting to airline and law enforcement officials that an acquaintance of his planned to blow up an airplane and posed a threat to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Sept. 19, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Clifford Earl Jordan, 43, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 87 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. Jordan had previously pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A former Orem, Utah, chiropractor, who also owned a health care products business, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to obstruct the internal revenue laws in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City Monday afternoon. Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John W. Huber for the District of Utah announced the sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. John Conyers, Jr., the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Rep.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jorge Costilla-Sanchez has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana as well as two counts of assault on a federal officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joseph Jakubowski, 33, Janesville, Wis., was convicted today of stealing 18 firearms and two silencers from a federally-licensed firearms dealer, and with being a felon in possession of those firearms and silencers. The jury returned its verdict after less than two hours of deliberation following a two-day trial in U.S. District Court in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man was re-sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a federal firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert Lorenzo Perea, 32, of Sandia Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 21 months in prison for violating federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Perea will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A native of Louisiana has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Holbrook man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Melissa Moniz, 44, of Marianna, having pled guilty in May 2017 to wire fraud, was sentenced late Friday afternoon to six months in federal prison to be followed by six months of home confinement. Additionally, she was ordered to pay $41,813.77 in restitution to Gynecology and Obstetrics Associates in Tallahassee. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: “The Second Circuit, while finding that the evidence was more than sufficient to convict Dean and Adam Skelos, held that a part of the jury instruction is no longer good law under the Supreme Court decision in McDonnell. While we are disappointed in the decision and will weigh our appellate options...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
Release: NEW YORK - The Transportation Security Administration and Delta Air Lines jointly launched new automated security screening lanes in Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) today, introducing state-of-the-art checkpoint technology to one of the busiest airports in the country. The automated screening lanes incorporate technology that enhances security effectiveness while decreasing the time customers spend in security screening.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 26, 2017
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management will reinitiate a wild horse collaring operation within the Adobe Town Herd Management Area as part of collaboration with the University of Wyoming to study wild horses.
