News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An alleged member of MS-13 pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to an immigration charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Amir Bakhtiari, Arlette Casino, and Austin Caba were arrested today for their respective roles in an alleged conspiracy and fraud scheme, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett; and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield couple and three Vermont residents were arrested today and charged with federal drug offenses including conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Jan. 10, 2018, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against two defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that operated in Taunton and Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ashan M. Benedict, the New York Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), announced today that LAWRENCE BROWN was sentenced to 39 years in prison for committing...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and a bipartisan delegation of committee members will tour the North American International Auto Show on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, beginning at 7:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: An indictment against a former co-president of a Maryland-based transportation company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, was unsealed today for his alleged role in a scheme that involved the bribery of an official at a subsidiary of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Randy Koontz, 39, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced today to 40 years in prison on federal charges of distribution of child pornography and traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GEORGE KINNEY, 35, of Plainfield, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl to an overdose victim in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - On Aug. 10, 2017, the President declared the opioid crisis to be a national emergency. Just yesterday, Attorney General Sessions stated, “With one American dying of a drug overdose every nine minutes, we are facing the deadliest drug crisis in American history.".
By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), today announced a hearing for Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Safety of the U.S. Food Supply: Continuing Concerns Over the Food and Drug Administration’s Food-Recall Process."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Kahari Scott, 24, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to serve 64 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Scott was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BEND, Oregon -In an effort provide for more reliable flows on the Deschutes River, the Bureau of Reclamation has entered into an agreement with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, the Central Oregon Irrigation District, and others. The Memorandum of Agreement is part of the compliance process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - A Moore County man pled guilty to federal dog fighting and conspiracy charges yesterday, announced United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Everyone is invited to participate in the free guided hikes, “Coffee Talks" and ‘Ike Hana No‘eau Hawaiian cultural programs in the Kahuku Unit of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, from January through March 2018. Visitors can also explore Kahuku on their own on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to racketeering conspiracy involving the murder of a 15-year-old boy in Lawrence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Hampshire stockbroker was sentenced yesterday for his role in a market manipulation scheme which was actually part of an undercover operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - An Atlanta, Georgia, man, Jaime Bowling, 28, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 135 months in federal prison for his role in the distribution of methamphetamine, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
