News from January 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the IRS’ release of their 2018 withholding tables...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Andres Leonardo Melgarejo, 26, of Vallejo, charging him with possessing cocaine for distribution, possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II to 12 months in prison and one year of supervised release for his use of excessive force during an arrest of a woman in 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following an announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the agency’s openness to approving state Medicaid waivers that would put up new barriers to enrolling in the program...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Owner of Virginia Auto Repair Shop Indicted for Employment Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: MINEOLA, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the DEA and Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas announced today that 17 alleged members and associates of the MS-(Mara Salvatrucha) gang have been indicted by a grand jury on various charges of murder, conspiracy to commit murder and drug trafficking in Nassau County and nationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of West Virginia has been sentenced in federal court to 216 months imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery of a pharmacy, robbery of a pharmacy, brandishment of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, and possession with the intent to distribute Schedule II controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Julius Hall, Jr., 32, Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Michael Capuano (D-MA) introduced legislation that would speed up the implementation of life-saving...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Five members of a local drug trafficking organization have been ordered to federal prison following their varying convictions on drug and/or firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Sentences ranged from 138-420 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: PATCHOGUE, NY - The NPS announced today that Fire Island National Seashore is accepting applications for the 2018 Artist-in-Residence program. Applications for the two-week residency program are due by February 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A Denver man was sentenced earlier this week to serve 7 years in federal prison for brandishing and use of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Debora Livingston announced. The man, James Harley Wheeler, age 24...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on Jan. 10, 2018, Bernard L. Cherry, 30, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced after being convicted of one count of felon in possession of a firearm. In July 2017, a federal jury in East St. Louis convicted Cherry after a two-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that today in Federal court, QUINTIN LAMAR MOLETTE, a 28-year-old resident of Fayetteville, was convicted following a two-day trial before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III. The jury found MOLETTE guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Settlement Reached in Coordination with Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin man was sentenced to more than two decades in federal prison for forcing multiple young women and girls to engage in commercial sex and to perform at exotic dance clubs on Indian reservations in Northern Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man in Under Armour Jacket or Sweatshirt Robs Albuquerque Bank.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on the Justice Department’s new Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Abdulkareem Daham, 22, of Westbrook, Maine, was convicted today following a three-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States. The charges arise out of the defendant’s employment at Ahram Halal Market on Forest Avenue in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2018
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Sara L. Darrow today sentenced Jeffrey Terrell Moore, 31, of Rock Island, Ill., to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to possess cocaine. Moore entered his guilty plea to the drug charge on Sept. 7, 2017.
