News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Travon Jarvel Jackson, 37, of Tampa, Fla., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez to 15 years’ imprisonment. Jackson had been previously found guilty following trial of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion; and interstate transportation for prostitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following efforts from U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill to get answers over more than 150 Afghan military personnel training in the United States that have gone missing-including from Missouri’s Ft. Leonard Wood-McCaskill confirmed today that the AWOL trainees in Missouri have been accounted for and requested additional answers on what the U.S. government is doing to better track foreign military trainees in Missouri and across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Robbed and Shot Victim Who Was Later Murdered by Gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man caught with heroin in August 2017 was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Joseph Mitchell, 44, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin. Stuart praised the efforts of the Marshall University Office of Public Safety and the FBI Huntington Safe Streets Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Fred Schrameck II aka Rick Schrameck, 73, of Bend, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to a single count of wire fraud for a scheme involving his consumer aviation company, Aircraft Completion Services LLC (ACS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Wesley Allen Krohn pleaded guilty today to two counts of armed bank robbery, four counts of bank robbery, and one count of attempted bank robbery in federal court, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Special Agent in Charge John Bennett of the FBI’s San Francisco Field Division, and Special Agent in Charge Sean Ragan of the FBI’s Sacramento Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that 86 individuals in the Buffalo and Rochester areas, who were recently released from prison following a period of incarceration, have completed job readiness training programs aimed at securing future employment and preventing recidivism and a return to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man who appeared in a music video with marijuana and guns was sentenced Monday to four years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Gustavo Adolfo Jimenez Polanco, 30, a Dominican Republic national, pleaded guilty today in district court to illegal reentry into the United States, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Polanco remains in custody pending his sentencing scheduled for Aug. 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quashad Maurante Pugh, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Representatives Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and Don Beyer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Derrick W. Johnson, 22, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to six years in federal prison for possessing hydrocodone with intent to deliver and carrying...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $14.5 million in new funding to advance geothermal energy development. The Efficient Drilling for Geothermal Energy (EDGE) funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will focus on geothermal drilling in support of accelerating the research and development of innovative geothermal energy technologies in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A father and son pleaded guilty in federal court today to committing six smoke shop robberies and two bank robberies in early 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), formally announced a markup for Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), formally announced a markup for Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at 1 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: A Kent State University professor was charged in federal court with lying to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Defendant Fraudulently Purchased Personal Items in Scheme to Defraud the District Attorney’s Office of Over $440,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) released the following statement after reaching an agreement with Department of Justice (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General Stephen E. Boyd and United States Attorney John Lausch to review and obtain documents and information pursuant to the Committees’ joint investigation into decisions made in 2016 and 2017.
