News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: FBI Cautions Public to Be Wary of Online Romance Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Belton, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally trafficking in thousands of illegal fireworks and explosives following an explosion that destroyed a Grandview, Mo., business last year.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ibilola Rasheedat Yussuf, 30, of Nigeria, who was convicted of using a passport secured by a false statement in application, was sentenced to nine months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will honor the Gunnison Nordic Club with the 2017 Volunteer of the Year Award at the Blackstock Government Center on Feb. 8. The award recognizes individual volunteers or volunteer organizations for their contributions toward public land management in Colorado throughout the year.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
Release: In addition, APHIS is amending requirements to codify existing treatment procedures for fruits and vegetables and make them more consistent, transparent, and enforceable. These actions include: expanding fruit cutting and inspection to commodities that have been cold-treated for a wider variety of pests ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Tyrell Dixey, 33, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty Wednesday in United States District Court to possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M.Davis announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 582, the Kari’s Law Act of 2017, and S. 96, the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2017. Both bills originated out of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tracey Leroy Boarman, Jr., of Falling Waters, West Virginia was sentenced today to 51 months incarceration for heroin distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former chief of the National Police in Guatemala’s second-largest city was arrested today on visa fraud charges in relation to his procurement of a “green card" after he allegedly failed to disclose to U.S. immigration authorities that he had been charged with murdering two political activists in Guatemala.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge George L. Russell has sentenced Mark Dennis, age 30, of Laurel, to 27 months in prison, and Charles Mensah, age 32, of the Bronx, New York, to 30 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DEBRA KROM, age 36, a resident of Wylie, Texas was charged yesterday in a one-count Bill of Information for Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Cassie Tillinghast, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank fraud, was sentenced to 10 months in prison, two years supervised release to include six months home detention, and ordered to pay restitution totaling $6,464.89 by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the below statement following the passing of his longtime friend and committee Staff Director Ray Baum...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: Seven firearms seized during the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Dwight Hamilton has been sentenced to one year in prison for abusing a female inmate by tasing her without any legitimate justification. Leonard Dreyer, Hamilton's former supervisor at the jail, was sentenced on Tuesday February 6, 2018, to 21 days of confinement in a halfway house for attempting to obstruct the federal investigation into Hamilton's use of excessive force by making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWIN ESCRIBANO, also known as “Bebo," 26, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and fentanyl to an overdose victim in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh and charged with violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Federal Communications Commission: Budget and Oversight."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Authorities executed multiple search warrants and arrested five Corpus Christi residents following enforcement actions resulting in criminal complaints for federal firearms and/or narcotics violations, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
