News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - David C. Joseph was sworn in today as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. President Donald Trump nominated Joseph on Feb. 16, 2018, and the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination March 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Travis Knight, of Mingo Junction, Ohio, has admitted today to counterfeit currency charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Following the unprecedented increase in threats made against our schools since the tragic shooting in Parkland, Florida, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, along with our local prosecutors and sheriffs, State Police, and federal law enforcement partners, came together to speak as one and emphasize that we intend to use our collective resources to find, arrest, and prosecute those who make threats against our schools,.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Robert Khuzami, the Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the arrests of, and unsealing of a criminal complaint charging...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Rawlins, Wyo. - In keeping with its priority to be a good neighbor by supporting working public lands, the BLM will host a public meeting on the Continental Divide-Creston Natural Gas Development Project at the Rawlins Field Office on April 18 from 4 - 6 p.m. The project is estimated to produce approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 3, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a twenty-two count Indictment charging three defendants with a 12-year fraud and money laundering scheme involving over $200 million in government-funded contracts...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Crimes Took Place on Same Block, Over Eight-Week Period Last Summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Shonn Northam, 47, Briggsville, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 42 months in federal prison for mail fraud, money laundering and identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will offer a hike with Park Archaeologist Jeremy Moss to the site of the Forked Lightning Pueblo on Saturday, April 28th. Along the two mile roundtrip backcountry hike to the remnants of this 13th century pueblo, you will explore the fascinating history of this...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: FORT WORTH - Micaha Paul Sneed, aka “Micaha “Mike" McGrath," 40, of Fort Worth, Texas, was last week by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to serve 240 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in October 2017 to a felony offense related to elder abuse, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Taunton woman was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for her role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking organization that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Daniel Hunter, age 54, of Enfield, Connecticut, pled guilty today to robbing two Dollar Tree stores in May 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesse Furse, 35, of Albuquerque. N.M., pled guilty today to federal child pornography offenses. At the time he committed the offenses, Furse was a Lieutenant with the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Corpus Christi man has admitted he sexually assaulted four minor females, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Matthew Joseph Lucio pleaded guilty to two counts each of online solicitation and production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Elder Fraud by Family and Caregivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man who was a former resident of Fairfax pleaded guilty today to depositing over $1.33 million in stolen checks belonging to an Arlington businessman.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service will partner to hold a naturalization ceremony for new United States citizens on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. at Bandy Creek Visitor Center. The public is invited to witness this stirring ceremony.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of RICHARD JAMES SMITH, 27, to 82 months in prison for violent assaulting an individual on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. SMITH, who pleaded guilty to one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury, was sentenced earlier...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jeffrey Chavez, 32, of Grants, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 70 months in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Chavez will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the second cohort of innovators to join Innovation Crossroads, the Southeast region’s first entrepreneurial research and development (R&D) program based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Five innovators were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants as part of the announcement and will begin work at ORNL in May 2018.
