News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years of imprisonment on his convictions for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud and Tax Fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Heroin Conspiracy Was Based in Culpeper Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Spectre & Meltdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito pledged the office’s strong support for a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) initiative announced in Camden today to address the problem of opioid and heroin abuse in New Jersey.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2018 - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on H.R. 4532, the “Shash Jaa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act." Introduced by Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), and cosponsored by every Member of the House of Representatives from Utah, the bill builds upon President Trump’s right-sizing of the Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) and creates the first tribally co-managed national monument in history.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jose Agustin Martinez, age 35, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: William Key, 86, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information with one count of theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. According to the Information[1], the defendant received retirement benefits under two different names from September 2004 until November 2016. The defendant’s alleged actions resulted in a loss to the government of approximately $57,536.40.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man was indicted today by a grand jury on extortion charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County, West Virginia, man was cited by police after a Transportation Security Administration officer at Yeager Airport (CRW) spotted a loaded gun in the man’s carry-on bag at the airport checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTE, N.C. - Lonnie Brown, Jr. 48, of Charlotte, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to 11 years in prison and five years of supervised release on drug trafficking conspiracy charges, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing to discuss how the opioid crisis evolved and the urgent need to respond with additional funding and services. This was...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar spent his first working days of 2018 at the Hanford Site, emphasizing the importance of safety as he talked with EM officials, toured cleanup projects, and met with labor groups and others in the community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Maureen S. Walck, 73 of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of failure to provide lead paint hazard warning notice, was sentenced to time served, fined $1,000 and ordered to pay restitution to the victim in the amount of $53,326.07 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: An ex-employee of the Shinola company pleaded guilty today to devising and executing a scheme to defraud her former employer, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On January 8, 2018, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Peter Alan Lundberg, 60, of St. Ann, Missouri, to 180 months in prison for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Lundberg was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two undocumented aliens from Mexico have been ordered to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 1000 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Oscar Erick Calvillo-Lores, 37, of Reynosa, Tamulipas, Mexico, and Jose Manuel Portillo-Guerrero, 42, of Valadeces, Tamulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty May 2, and March 28, 2017, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Maurice Mervin (41, Jacksonville) to five years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute “crack" cocaine and for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to forfeit a Dodge Challenger that he had used in his drug business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lynnsi Dunbar, 30, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay $287,945 in restitution for conspiring to defraud Bakersfield Pipe and Supply Inc. (BPS), U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that REBECA PALOUKOS, age 51, from Nimitz Hill, Piti, was sentenced today in District Court to a term of 18 months imprisonment for Theft of Government Money, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641. The Court also...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented an Indiana man from bringing a loaded handgun aboard a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport checkpoint.
