News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man today admitted possessing images of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for a previous offense involving the distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Defendant had four prior deportations from the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In keeping with the administration’s priorities of being good neighbors and respecting the ties that native and traditional communities have to public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument will be closed on Thursday, May 3. This closure allows for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural observances and routine BLM maintenance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Six individuals have been arrested and charged in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Bakari McCant (26, Orlando) to 32 years in federal prison for committing armed robberies at two Orlando-area Walmart Neighborhood Markets, for conspiring and attempting to commit a third armed robbery at a Walmart Neighborhood Market...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Sushovan Hussain, the former Chief Financial Officer of Autonomy Corporation plc, was convicted of one count of conspiracy, fourteen counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud by a federal jury today, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The verdict follows a two-month trial before the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Saugus loan broker was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for operating a scheme that defrauded small businesses from across the country in connection with their efforts to obtain business loans.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill is calling for answers after a recent report found that approximately 6,200 active employees at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities have not started the required background check process. At some facilities, the average time it took VA to start a background check was 390 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to an investment fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: What: Annual Fire Engine Training Workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I., man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing a kilogram of heroin to an undercover agent.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: Statewide, Idaho - Ten western governors, including Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch" Otter, have proclaimed May as Wildfire Awareness Month. Throughout the month, residents are encouraged to learn how to better protect their homes and communities from wildfire and how they can help firefighters reduce the number of human-caused fires. In Idaho, the BLM has chosen to focus on a variety of themes that will be featured weekly during May’s “Mitigation Minute."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIJAH CHIN, 28, of Federal Way, Washington, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to fraud and identity theft offenses stemming from a credit card fraud scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Following a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, a former Puerto Rico Department of Education (DOE) teacher was found guilty Friday of one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Senior District Court Judge Daniel R. Domínguez presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Shomari Robinson, 37, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced Friday, April 27, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 96 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Robinson pleaded guilty to this charge on February 9, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2018
News Release: The management of Denali National Park and Preserve has determined that there is no longer adequate snow cover for the use of snowmachines for traditional activities in all but one area of the 1980 additions to Denali National Park and Preserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Steven J. Nemec was sentenced today to 57 months prison and ordered to forfeit $80,000 for structuring cash transactions. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Susan Illston, U.S. District Judge, following Nemec’s entry of a guilty plea on Sept. 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged a Chicago man with attempted carjacking for allegedly trying to take a vehicle at gunpoint on the city’s Near North Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Jaunte Lamar Berry, age 31, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute 50 grams or more of Methamphetamine, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on April 23, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged a Chicago man with attempted carjacking for allegedly trying to take a vehicle at gunpoint on the city’s Near North Side.
