News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal complaint was unsealed charging Terrance “Terry" Allen Miles in the kidnapping of two minors, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and its research and development (R&D) partners today issued a Request for Innovators (RFI) seeking to prototype, test and transition cutting-edge emergency response technologies. The goal is to put tools with smart city and Internet of Things capabilities into the hands of first responders by 2020.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Dear Special Counsel Kerner: I write to draw your attention to the conversion of Ms. Leandra English from a senior political appointment at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to a permanent, career civil service position at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). According to information...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Due to continued hazardous conditions as a result of the recent winter storm, National Park Service visitor facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore will remain closed on Friday, January 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Jan. 3, 2018, Mark Carlton Bryant, 66, of Estill Springs, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 51 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography. Additionally, Bryant was ordered to pay a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Billy Hershell Smith II, age 48, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 293 months imprisonment, and 10 years of supervised release for Sexual Exploitation Of Children, in violation of Title...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS - On Dec. 29, 2017 at approximately 4:25 pm a bicyclist was struck by a 2017 Chevy Tahoe on the Natchez Trace Parkway near mile marker 108. Parkway Law Enforcement Rangers responded to the scene along with units from the Ridgeland Fire Department, Ridgeland Police Department, Madison County Sheriff’s Department, and Pafford Ambulance Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative focuses federal resources on the most violent areas of Marion County with an emphasis on gun crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Westmoreland County resident has been sentenced in federal court to four years of imprisonment and four years of supervised release on her conviction of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Daniel E. Jones, 29, of Harrison Township, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison for possessing fentanyl and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Philadelphia - Attorney General Jeff Sessions has selected the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to receive additional resources for the fight against violent crime. The district will receive an additional Assistant U.S. Attorney to focus exclusively on violent crime, one of 40 new federal prosecutors in 27 selected locations throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man has admitted to health care fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced the appointment of Gretchen C.F. Shappert as Interim United States Attorney pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546, which provides that "the Attorney General may appoint a United States Attorney for the district in which the office of United States Attorney is vacant." This appointment will take effect on January 5, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Paul Dwayne Jones, 54, of Casper, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on January 4, 2018, for aiding and abetting the possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Jones was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: What a year! Starting October 2016 through this past September, the DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Transition to Practice (TTP) program commercialized, spun off or released as open source 10 new cybersecurity technologies.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following joint statement Thursday in response to the Trump Administration’s recognition of a winner in the Honduran presidential election despite widespread irregularities reported by international election observers. Protests and political unrest in Honduras continue...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Jan. 15, commemorate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with free admission and special events at national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Daniel E. Jones, 29, of Harrison Township, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison for possessing fentanyl and a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that thirteen individuals were sentenced in connection with a cocaine and methamphetamine drug trafficking conspiracy in multiple counties within the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 3, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault on the Menominee Indian Reservation. The indictment named Anthony Kitchenakow (age: 46) of Green Bay.
