News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Waldwick, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for carjacking a taxi and striking the victim on the head with a beer bottle, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Following are the opening remarks of Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA) from today’s Subcommittee policy roundtable to discuss the Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) database and how it can be properly utilized to save money for the taxpayer...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana -- The Bureau of Reclamation would like to notify the public that access across Canyon Ferry Dam will be closed to all traffic Saturday, April 14, 2018, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Labor Department’s March 2018 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Hermosa, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Theft of Mail, Access Device Fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 42-year-old resident of Corpus Christi has been ordered to prison following his conviction of two counts of online solicitation of minors and two counts of transfer of obscene material to minors, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury deliberated for approximately 20 minutes following less than two days of trial before convicting Spencer Salcedo on Jan. 9, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ONYEKACHI EMMANUEL OPARA pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Crotty in Manhattan federal court to charges stemming from his participation in fraudulent business email compromise scams that targeted thousands of victims around the world, including the United States. Collectively, the scams attempted to defraud victims of millions of dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen has released the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s additional proposed Section 301 actions against China...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: DURANGO -- Timothy Merritt, age 57, of Utah was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert Blackburn on April 9, 2018, to 24 years in prison for the crimes of Murder in the Second Degree in Indian Country and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in Indian Country. Merritt was convicted after...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Wreath laying in memory of all crime victims and their families; recommitting to provide services for crime victims among the events at the Rhode Island’s Victims’ Grove.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney R. Andrew Murray announced today that Divett Lidrell Mays, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for kidnapping his daughter and fleeing to Egypt. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. also sentenced Mays to three years of supervised release after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - “La Familia Michoacàn" (LFM) Mexican drug cartel leader, Arnoldo Rueda-Medina, aka “La Minsa," 48, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 520 months in federal prison and a $5 million fine for offenses related to his leadership role within LFM. LFM was responsible...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Plain City, Ohio, man today admitted possessing hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse while imprisoned at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix for a previous offense involving the receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Salem County, New Jersey, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally selling firearms without a license and unlawfully possessing firearms after having been previously convicted of a felony, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Willie Richard Minor, 58, of Auburn, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Minor was convicted on Dec. 13, 2017, following a two-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced an indictment charging BARRY RON SKOG, 67, with five counts of sale of counterfeit coins and one count of mail fraud. The defendant made his initial appearance earlier today before Magistrate Judge Franklin L. Noel in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) and Oversight Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) released a package of bills to redesign the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the first time in over 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to maintaining a drug-involved premises, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Two Rhode Island trucking companies and their owners were indicted by a federal grand jury in Providence today in an alleged scheme to falsify federally mandated safety inspection reports and allow trucks in need of repair to haul tons scrap metal on roadways in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
