News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Florida man was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for running a 15-year insurance fraud scheme that involved at least 27 fires in two states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: A former Deputy Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department, Celia Washington, 57, of Detroit, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Gasper Fiore to commit bribery, in connection with the corruption of towing permits in Detroit, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Xiaohong Huang, also known as “Michelle," Chan Kong Chow, and Biyun Gong, have been sentenced for conspiring to operate a brothel in Doraville, Georgia, which lured sex-workers to Atlanta from across the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announced today the results of the first phase of the Violent Crime Reduction Initiative in the Middle District of Florida. Over the past three months, 125 individuals have been charged with firearm and violent crime offenses, and 227 firearms and assorted ammunition have been removed from the streets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ZACHARY PROVOST, 32, of Waterbury, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with committing two armed robberies in Middlebury last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: December 1 - Dec. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: A man who distributed heroin laced with fentanyl that caused a near-fatal overdose was sentenced on Dec. 27, 2017, to 30 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the retirement of Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated that quantum physics might enable communications and mapping in locations where GPS and ordinary cellphones and radios don’t work reliably or even at all, such as indoors, in urban canyons, underwater and underground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Montrell Pettaway, a 29 year old, resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a firearm after being convicted of felony possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park will present films from a number of national park sites that commemorate events and issues surrounding World War II on Saturday afternoon Jan. 13, at the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Bismarck - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on Jan. 2, 2018, ANTONIO AVILA MEDRANO, age 41, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by Chief Judge Daniel L. Hovland to serve 25 years in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of Supervised Release, after being found...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Grants Pass Department of Public Safety Deputy Chief Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is excited to announce the archeological investigation of 13 acres of core battlefield land. This property, known as the “Claytor Field," was the scene of Union camps before the battle under the command of future President Rutherford B. Hayes. During...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that James Michael West, age 64, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma pled guilty to Concealment Of A Material Fact, in violation of Title 42, United States Code, Section 408(a)(4), punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By State Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement on Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s decision to pardon former President Alberto Fujimori...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: PINEDALE, Wyo. - In keeping with the Department’s goal to promote America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office has today released its decision to allow Denbury Resources, Inc. to begin the Riley Ridge Development Project in Sublette County, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for selling large quantities of Oxycodone out of his auto repair shop.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense with Your New Year's Resolutions.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 2, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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) sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao requesting a detailed status update on where the railroads are in fully implementing critical Positive Train Control (PTC) technology and when railroads will meet the PTC implementation deadline.
