News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CARLOS ARGUETA-MANCIA, age 24, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after pleading guilty on Feb. 22, 2017 to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a). U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon sentenced ARGUETA-MANCIA to four months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A federal grand jury in Providence, RI, today returned a forty-count indictment charging a Pawtucket, RI, man who is among more than 250 defendants from around the globe named in criminal, civil and forfeiture fraud cases brought by federal and state law enforcement against individuals and organizations that allegedly victimized more than a million Americans, most of whom are elderly.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: State of Wisconsin presents proclamation to St. Croix National Scenic Riverway.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch hosted a roundtable discussion in his office on Wednesday with nearly two-dozen local housing activists to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. The Fair Housing Act was signed into law on April 11, 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Another former UAW official entered a guilty plea to accepting illegal payments from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that THOMAS JOHNSON, 27, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to federal robbery and firearm charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: WILMINGTON, Delaware - A Lewes, Delaware man, was sentenced Wednesday to nearly four years in prison after a federal child pornography case led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to hold a hearing next week with embattled EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and his top aides and to obtain documents relating to a host of serious new allegations against Pruitt and his advisors over the past week.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lorenzo A. Ruiz-Gonzalez, 26, entered a guilty plea to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking charges today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. Immediately thereafter, Ruiz-Gonzales was sentenced to 70 months of imprisonment. He will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JUSTIN COLE MILAM, 22, from Raleigh to 312 months in prison, a lifetime of supervision upon release and a $4,000.00 fine for the Manufacture of Child Pornography (CP). MILAM pled guilty to the charge on Oct. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quavonte Pugh and Caveizz Cunningham, both of Wheeling, West Virginia, were arrested today and appeared in federal court to face drug charges after being indicted by a federal grand jury on April 3, 2018, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM- Today a federal jury convicted an Etowah County man for drug trafficking crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Yosemite Valley to close to visitors on Friday, April 6, 2018 at 5:00 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: LONE PINE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bishop Field Office, in cooperation with the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group, will be co-sponsoring the seventh annual "Alabama Hills Day" on Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To participate, meet at the junction of Whitney Portal Road and Movie Road about two miles west of Lone Pine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: 38-Day Manhunt Ended in Remote Area of Northern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Harvey Peake, 61, of Canada, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 87 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Cottage Grove, Tenn, man has been sentenced to 110 months in federal prison for possession and receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lexington man was arrested today and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with trading on non-public information thus profiting more than $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., and the Interagency Council of North Carolina announce the National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Observances, April 8 - April 14, 2018. This year’s theme-“Expand the Circle: Reach All Victims."- emphasizes...
