News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND-Samantha Marie Elhassani, aka Samantha Sally, 32, formerly of Elkhart, Indiana, was charged on Aug. 22, in a two count indictment with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated terrorist organization, and aiding and abetting individuals in providing material support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: A Guatemalan man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to more than four months in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today released the following statement upon reports that Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is considering using federal funds to arm teachers.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: * Around 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, a family of four from Washington encountered a bear a half mile up the Divide Trail, southeast of Old Faithful.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Yossi Rafael Rincon Ramirez, 42, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy and for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Reality Winner, 26, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison for removing classified national defense material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet. Winner was arrested by the FBI at her home in Augusta, on June 3, 2017. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - James Atkinson, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to an armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeffrey S. Kahn, 51, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), has been sentenced to one month of incarceration, to be followed by five months of home detention, for falsifying his work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie A. Bridgett joined forces today to raise public awareness of the potential for fraud in the wake of the wildfires currently plaguing Northern California. The public is urged to be vigilant in reporting suspected...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JAMIE PAUL EARLY, age 36, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for a bank robbery committed on July 27, 2018 at the Capital One Bank at 3001 Tulane Avenue in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MELVIN WALKER, age 46, pleaded guilty yesterday to being a felon in possession of firearms before the Honorable Sarah S. Vance.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska conveyed several tracts of land aggregating 15,845.80 acres in the Fortymile Mining District to Doyon, Limited (Doyon) yesterday. This is the first in a series of conveyances in the Fortymile area transferring federal lands to Doyon, pursuant to Section 12(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - Ronald Fryman, 38, of Cincinnati, was sentenced today to 150 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge David L. Bunning, for unlawful distribution of crystal methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Two individuals had their initial court appearances today on charges related to the theft of more than 300 firearms inside a trailer belonging to a Federal Firearms Licensee, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Donald Courtney Biggs, 40, of Medford, Oregon, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison for surreptitiously recording minor church members in various stages of undress while employed as a youth pastor at Mountain Christian Fellowship in Medford.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in federal court in Boston with failure to register as a sex offender as required under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: A West Palm Beach return preparer was charged by indictment with filing false tax returns with the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Marvin Dennis and Malik Martinez have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for committing drug trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Yosemite National Park and Ansel Adams Gallery announce the eighth annual Gateway Expressions Student Art, Photography and Poetry Contest. The Gateway Expressions Student Art, Photography and Poetry Contest celebrate the creativity of youth in Yosemite’s gateway communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2018
News Release: Mesa Police Deparment/FBI Seeks the 'Wiggin' Out Bandit.
