News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Collins, Colorado, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, Feb. 10, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a special 1-hour, 1/2 mile hiking tour at Chickamauga Battlefield. This program will explore the role of one of the more famous Confederate units in the Battle of Chickamauga, the 1st Kentucky Brigade, also known as the Orphan Brigade. This program begins at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), at the request of Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), was named to the House Committee on Natural Resources. He will serve on the Subcommittees on Energy and Mineral Resources and Federal Lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a $1.5 million tax fraud scheme as well as for individual tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Five of six alleged members of an international criminal conspiracy were arrested and appeared before the Court in Dallas, Texas on charges related to their alleged roles in an international fraud scheme that has used counterfeit driver’s licenses and counterfeit money orders to obtain monies from victim bank accounts around the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers have begun startup testing at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant ’s (WTP) Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility and the Analytical Laboratory, marking the next step forward in commissioning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, James Robertson Young, 29, of Kayenta, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 240 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Young had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Defendant Was Later Arrested by FBI in Seattle Area.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: One Year Later: SOTU Tax Reform Promises Made and Delivered for the American People.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicholas Reynolds, 33, of Bangor, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL HULL, 60, of Shelton, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Alex Azar to serve as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, James Robertson Young, 29, of Kayenta, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 240 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Young had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - The Transportation Security Administration’s security checkpoint at Huntington Tri-State Airport (HTS) has doubled its size, growing from one to two lanes to improve efficiency as passengers are screened before being allowed to proceed to their gate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Ring Sold Cocaine and Other Narcotics in Washington, D.C. Area.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: JAN. 30, 2018 - Approximately two-thirds (69.3 percent) of custodial parents who were due child support received some payments from noncustodial parents, while only 43.5 percent reported receiving the full amount of child support due. This latest information comes from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2015 report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced on Jan. 29, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER ASCH was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for conspiring to kidnap, rape, and murder the wife of a man he had met over the Internet, as well as a female Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jose Aguila-Flores, 40, a citizen of Mexico found in Madison, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to one year and one day in federal prison for illegally reentering the United States. Aguila-Flores, who had been deported previously, pleaded guilty to this charge on Nov. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Law enforcement seized a large quantity of heroin and found two loaded handguns in defendant’s stove.
