News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Defendant Shot Victim Repeatedly After Confrontation Next to Alley.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: I am pleased we are holding a hearing to identify solutions to address opioid abuse and dependence specifically in the Medicare space. Although overdose rates are highest for people 25 to 54, this public health emergency also affects Medicare beneficiaries.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Cyber Diplomacy in an Era of Growing Threats." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Ray Sepulveda, 39, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in Las Cruces, N.M., federal court to 25 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his conviction on federal child exploitation and child pornography charges. Sepulveda will be required to continue to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), ranking member on the Education and the Workforce Committee, and 122 Democrats submitted a public comment to Secretary of Labor R.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE -The National Park Service has selected a photograph by Mike Hudson of Wheaton, Illinois, as the winner of Acadia National Park’s 2018 annual entrance pass contest. The photograph portrays a beautiful scene from Hunters Head in Acadia National Park. The photograph will appear on thousands...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood and Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Saudi Citizen Charged in Oklahoma With Concealing Attendance at Al Qaeda Training Camp.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that EDY GARCIA-BANEGAS, age 32, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien after deportation, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Montgomery County, Md.- The National Park Service has approved a request from the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) to upgrade its Potomac River water supply intake along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park. The project will involve construction of a new submerged water intake in the river and the placement of permanent water filtration structures within the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: “This is the second hearing in a series of hearings held by the Ways and Means Committee on the opioid crisis. Today we will explore opioid addiction and treatment in our Medicare population and how Congress can do more to improve detection, education, and prevention. Like many states, Illinois, is experiencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dwayne G. Perkins, age 37, of Albany, was arraigned today on a charge that he possessed and intended to distribute crack cocaine, cocaine, and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced 59-year-old James Amos Headley of Universal City, TX, to one year confinement after Headley pleaded guilty to federal charges in relation to threatening the lives of a member of Congress and the member’s family, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal grand jury indicted 44-year-old Terry Allen Miles in connection with the kidnapping of two minors, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury has indicted a Memphis man with possession of a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: A Garfield Heights man was indicted on carfentanil, fentanyl and firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Defendants, Seeking to Steal Drugs and Cash, Pistol-Whipped and Tortured Victim with a Hot Iron.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Tuesday, February 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Gregory Walsh, to 24 months in federal prison followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Walsh had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1349 on April 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A New Cumberland, West Virginia woman admitted today making a false statement when applying to the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Why Congress Needs to Pass the Representative Payee Bill.
