News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Mexican national was sentenced last week to 24 months in prison for reentering the United States illegally for the third time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Robert Allen Davis, a/k/a Robert A. Davis, Jr., 53, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Jan. 17, 2018, for failure to register as a sex offender. Davis was arrested in North Platte, Nebraska. He received 15 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment and a $200.00 fine. This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: “Since President Trump’s draconian budget was released, Democrats have warned Republicans that a bipartisan budget agreement was needed to adequately invest in American families and communities. Without a budget agreement, programs as diverse as Head Start, job training, and terrorism prevention grants...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - A federal grand jury has indicted 104 individuals as a result of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An indictment unsealed Thursday alleges three Kansas residents lied on forms they filled out to purchase firearms, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. All three defendants were soldiers stationed at Fort Riley.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A former business manager and financial secretary for the Operative Plasterers and Cement Masons International Association Local 40 in Rhode Island pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to charges that he embezzled approximately $319,795 in union funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - A Jamaican national arrested in Albany, New York, who has prior convictions for possession of a weapon, loaded firearm, four counts of criminal sale of a controlled substance, and larceny is among 46 foreign nationals taken into custody during a five-day operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in western New York, targeting at-large criminal aliens, illegal re-entrants, and other immigration violators.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced the “Opportunities for the Nation and States to Harness Onshore Resources for Energy Act" or “ONSHORE Act." The bill mirrors Title II of H.R. 4239, the “SECURE American Energy Act," which passed the Committee in November 2017. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Arkee Vernard Howard (27, Orlando) to 9 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine, heroin, and marijuana. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Two Brazilian nationals were indicted after police arrested them with two credit card skimmers, more than 250 counterfeit credit or bank cards and nearly $140,000 in cash, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Tennessee felon pleaded guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Marvin Dunigan, 46, of Johnson City, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Beckley Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho-Fire season has come and gone here in eastern Idaho, but your local Bureau of Land Management firefighters are still hard at work assisting communities in need across the nation. BLM Idaho Falls District firefighters respond year-round, sacrificing time with family and friends to protect your public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Today, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst recognized members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi with the presentation of the Southern District’s annual awards for superior performance in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Erwin Phillips Burley (29, Houston, TX) to eight years in federal prison for enticing a woman to travel across state lines to engage in prostitution. The Court also ordered him to pay restitution to the victims in the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Two Dubuque men who robbed the Fidelity Bank and Trust in Maquoketa, one of whom also sold heroin that led to an overdose and possessed firearms as a felon, were sentenced yesterday and today to federal prison terms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL-Lawrence P. Borghini, a special agent (SA) with the FBI Jacksonville Division, has been selected as the recipient of the FBI’s Civil Rights Program Award, in recognition of his outstanding efforts to dismantle a criminal human trafficking organization that was operating throughout the...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
Release: RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - Residents of Long Island will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s popular TSA Pre✓® application program inside the Long Island MacArthur Airport terminal during the week of Jan. 22 - 26, where officials will host a temporary “pop-up" TSA Pre✓® application center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Jose Serrano Ayuso, 31, and Lilian Zapata, a/k/a Marta Arus, 52, both previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Keyser, West Virginia man and a Piedmont, West Virginia man appeared in federal court after being indicted by a grand jury in November 2017 for drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage - National Park Service compendiums for Alaska are open for public comment.
