News from January 2018
By Labor Gazette | Jan 26, 2018
The US Labor Department published a two page rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office is making progress prosecuting men accused of harming an endangered species and vandalism of government equipment at Devils Hole, a unit of Death Valley National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man has been indicted on a federal kidnapping charge for allegedly abducting a child from a Calumet City street in broad daylight last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced a former paramedic with two northwest Missouri ambulance districts was sentenced in federal court today for stealing pain-killing drugs and replacing the vials with water.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Brunswick, GA: James Martin Graham, 62, was sentenced on Jan. 22, 2018, to 188 months in prison by United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood following his plea of guilty to possession of child pornography. The prison term will be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release. Graham will...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 26, 2018, Kyle D. Herwald (age: 27) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute Methamphetamine in Northeast Wisconsin.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation will hold a hearing to examine the results of investigations on two issues: the Oct. 1, 2015 sinking of the EL FARO, and the failed efforts by U.S. Coast Guard to implement an electronic health records (EHR) system.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joseph Crowley, Oversight & Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Eliot...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Felon Ernest Blackmon Pleads Guilty to Stolen Gun Possession, Gets 17 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the 30 year sentence of a Mexican National, formerly living in Lexington, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, in United States District Court, for threatening to murder an Assistant United States Attorney and solicitation to murder an officer of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Law Enforcement Seeking Public’s Assistance Identifying an Area Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - Clayton Quiz Smith was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for the armed robbery of three banks in the East Bay and one bank in Folsom, Calif., announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
Release: NORTHWEST ARKANSAS - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun implementing new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at airports across the country. The new procedures, which have been rolling out across...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL CHAPMAN, also known as “Nice" and “Mizzo," 26, of New Britain, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 66 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying crack cocaine to a Hartford drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Joplin, Mo., middle school teacher has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to the sexual exploitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Hialeah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: The FBI Seattle Field Office selected Tukwila, Washington leader Katrina Dohn for a 2017 Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA). Every year, each FBI field office honors a person who has demonstrated outstanding contributions to his or her local community through service. On Jan. 22, 2018, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Keith Beall, age 62, of McAlester, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment, and 3 years supervised release, for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute cocaine and possessed firearms pled guilty Jan. 25, 2018, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: VILLAGE OF LAKE DELTON, Wisconsin - The National Response Team of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrived on-scene today, Jan. 26, joining local agents from the ATF Wisconsin Field Offices to assist in the investigation of the fire at the employee dormitory construction site of the Wilderness Resort located at 511 East Adams Street, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
