News from January 2018
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
Release: 10 a.m. - noon. Patriots Plaza III, Auditorium B. 355 E Street. SW, Washington, DC 20024. Visitors must pass through a security check at the Patriots Plaza III location with a government issued ID. If you plan to attend, RSVP to ppded@fas.usda.gov by 5:00 p.m. on Jan. 17, 2018. Include your full name...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man and woman have been indicted on federal drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 29 indictments charging 30 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a French national Wednesday who was wanted for causing death/manslaughter/murder in his home country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: FBI Offers Reward of up to $10,000 for "Froggy Robber" Suspect.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on news that President Trump will deliver live video remarks to the March for Life.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: As a result of snow accumulation and hazardous conditions, National Park Service visitor facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore will be closed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former corrections officer at the Jackson County Detention Center pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a conspiracy to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - First Assistant United States Attorney Elizabeth A. Strange announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona collected $13,751,877 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $5,903,640 was collected in criminal actions and $7,848,237 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN MALDONADO, also known as “Chewy," 31, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant is latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen defendants indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an Eldon, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity over a two-year period and for attempting to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Dr. David Blasczak, 69, of Newark, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 20 years and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Brewer, 48, of San Francisco, pleaded guilty today to bid rigging, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The second of two West Warwick men charged with participating in a heroin, crack cocaine trafficking and bank fraud conspiracy was sentenced on Wednesday to 60 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy issue a subpoena to compel the White House to produce documents it has been withholding from Congress relating to its failure...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman, Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today issued the following statement following the administration’s announcement of the creation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Today, Wilton Eugene Toney, 62, and Denita Ann Love, a/k/a Denita Ann Solitaire, 58, both of Anchorage, Alaska, were named in a federal indictment charging them with drug conspiracy.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2018
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - A former corrections officer at the Federal Corrections Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, Latoya Sebree, 37, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for accepting bribes from inmates, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced.
