News from February 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A twice-deported Mexican man was found guilty Wednesday of drug trafficking and immigration violations, announced U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson, Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man was arrested today on charges of orchestrating a multi-year investment fraud scheme causing at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses to dozens of victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: FBI joins with local and state law enforcement to disrupt coordinated criminal activity centered in Woodland, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury convicted John Daley Strothers, 59, of Charlotte, on four counts of using a false document in a federal matter, making a false statement to obtain a passport, possession of a fraudulent identification document (birth certificate) and making a false statement to federal agents, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday on Sexual Harassment in Housing for community organizations, U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN C. GALLAGHER JR., the former head of Buildings and Grounds at the City of New Rochelle School District, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for his role in a scheme to solicit bribes from...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 4895, the “Medgar Evers National Monument Act" (Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-MS), establishing the Medgar Evers National Monument, and H.R. 835 (Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-CO), expanding the boundaries of the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As President Trump continues to tout his much-criticized infrastructure “plan" - which invests almost nothing in badly needed infrastructure and demands imaginary state and local funding for projects - Republicans at today’s Water, Power and Oceans Subcommittee continued to ignore...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man arrested in April 2017 during a year-long Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation to identify individuals possessing or trafficking firearms in and around the Chad Brown neighborhood of Providence, pleaded guilty today in federal court to possessing and selling an unregistered machine gun equipped with a silencer and selling 240 grams of fentanyl laced heroin to an undercover federal law enforcement agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Keyser, West Virginia woman has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, TN-Scam artists preying on lonely hearts are costly for Americans. The most recent statistics from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which provides the public with a means of reporting Internet-facilitated crimes, reveal losses of nearly $220 million nationwide in 2016. Tennessee residents reported more than $2.25 million for the same time period.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Jay A. García-Gregory sentenced former San Juan Municipal Police officer Carlos Velázquez-Fontanez to 40 years in prison for RICO Act violations, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Finance Committee hearing to consider the administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request for the Treasury Department and to discuss the implementation of the largest tax overhaul in more than three decades.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and members of the committee advanced two Office of Personnel Management (OPM) nominees, legislation to terminate Obamacare’s failing Multi-State Plan program, and legislation to require...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Four Cleveland men were named in a 25-count federal indictment that charges they conspired to distribute at least 220 pounds of marijuana and 345 pills of Oxycodone, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man with at least six prior felony convictions today admitted distributing narcotics and possessing multiple firearms, including two assault rifles and a 12-guage shotgun, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Jovon McClures (40, Fort Myers) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit the firearm used during the offense. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years of probation on her convictions of mail fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Cedar City, Utah-In keeping with the Administration’s priority of serving the American family, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will burn slash piles south of Cedar City, in the Shurtz Canyon area during the week of Feb. 12, 2018. The burn is necessary to reduce debris (brush and trees) that resulted from construction of the Shurtz Canyon Trailhead.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Leeroy Soap Jr, age 40, of Cherry Tree, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment, and 3 years supervised release for Assault With A Dangerous Weapon In Indian Country, in violation of...
