News from February 2018
By USDA Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement on President Trump’s 2019 Budget Request.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: For Transporting A Minor For Sexual Activity.
By State Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House of Representatives passed the Hamas Human Shields Prevention Act (H.R. 3542), which sanctions Hamas for using civilians as human shields - a gross violation of internationally recognized human rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Graham Allen Helms, age 30, of Durant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 40 months imprisonment, and 3 years supervised release for two counts of Bank Robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALLAN ARZU MATAMOROS-BANEGAS (“MATAMOROS-BANEGAS"), age 31, pleaded guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with illegal use of a social security number in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(7)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 48-year-old Mexican national illegally residing in Carthage, Texas, has been found guilty of drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa-- On Feb. 13, 2018, Devon Durran Davis, age 25, of Davenport was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey to 46 months in prison following his guilty plea to felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Davis was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. The firearm was forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Illegal alien from El Salvador lived on the Westside of Indianapolis.
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: (WESTON, Fla.) - Jamila Takiyah Hunter, 32, of Tallahassee, was convicted yesterday afternoon of possession with intent to distribute the controlled substance a-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone or “Alpha-PVP" known on the street as “Molly".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Kris Landon Green, aka “#5," 20, and Marcus Jackson, aka “Marty-Mar," 23, both of Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Rebecca Rutherford to their role in a drug distribution group that operated within an area referred to as the “2600 Money Block" (4500 block of Maple Avenue in Dallas, Texas), announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-Rocky Rollin Bettin, a 39-year old resident of Billings, Montana, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine. United States District Judge Susan P. Watters presided over the sentencing.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: REPS LIEU, NADLER AND CUMMINGS INTRODUCE BILL TO CREATE TRANSPARENCY IN WHITE HOUSE SECURITY CLEARANCES
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Palmer man was sentenced for conspiring to import prescription drugs from Pakistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Michael Hendrickson, 56, Idaho Falls, was sentenced yesterday to one year of confinement, including six months of imprisonment and six months of home detention, for filing a false claim with the United States Department of Energy, U.S. Attorney Bart Davis announced. Hendrickson pleaded guilty to the charge in November 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Today the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced nearly $4 million for the University of Connecticut at Storrs and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation to lead a traineeship program that will address workforce training needs in the early-stage technology area of advanced materials...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Feb. 2, 2018, Scott Jacob Smith, age 33, of Indianola, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to 235 months in prison following a jury trial where he was found guilty of receipt of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A Maryland gang member pleaded guilty today to his participation in a racketeering enterprise in furtherance of the activities of the gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including his participation in two conspiracies to commit murder.
