News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Central Islip, New York, returned a guilty verdict last night against Anael Sainfil on three counts of a superseding indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery and brandishing firearms during a crime of violence. The verdict came after a four-day trial before Senior United States District Judge Leonard D. Wexler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that ONYEKACHI EMMANUEL OPARA was extradited from South Africa. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Law Enforcement Announces Arrest of Suspect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -A federal jury has convicted three defendants for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang’s Greenmount Avenue Regime. Gerald Thomas Johnson, a/k/a Geezy, and Gzy Tha Prince, age 35; Kenneth Jones, a/k/a, K-Slay, and Slay, age 30; and Marquise McCants, a/k/a Digga, age 25, all of Baltimore, Maryland, were convicted of conspiring to violate federal racketeering and drug trafficking laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a North Carolina man from bringing a loaded handgun on board a plane at a Charlotte Douglas International Airport checkpoint.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Emergency Order of Revocation against TapJets, Inc. of Spring, Texas and Fargo, North Dakota, for allegedly conducting passenger-carrying flights using unqualified pilots and operating unauthorized aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: One Incident Was in 2012, Another in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Terry Land, of Sumter, South Carolina, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, to tax evasion, a violation of 26 U.S.C. § 7201. Additionally, Land entered a guilty plea to operating a gambling...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: BOGOTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Colombian National Police (CNP) officially opened the Yuliana Andrea Samboni Child Exploitation/Cyber Forensics Laboratory in a ribbon cutting ceremony attended by senior U.S. and Colombian officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Former Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper James Carson pleaded guilty in federal court to violating an individual’s civil rights by using excessive force, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division John Gore, United States Attorney for the District of Kansas Stephen R. McAllister, and Special Agent in Charge for the Kansas City Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Darrin E. Jones.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CASEY JOHNSON, age 27, has pleaded guilty to one count of Bank Robbery with a Firearm in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. Sections 2113(a) and (d) and 2. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in the Bureau of Prisons, five years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution to the victim bank in this case.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), #SubDCCP Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), #SubDCCP Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: On December 5, 2017, Anthony I. Hunter, a/k/a "Shug," 29, of Murphysboro, was charged by one-count indictment with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Donald S. Boyce announced today. The indictment alleges that the offense occurred...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: RESPONSE TO QUERY. Jan. 26, 2018 - The 2020 Census race and ethnicity questions will follow a two-question format for capturing race and ethnicity for both the 2018 Census Test and the 2020 Census, which adheres to the 1997 Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity (Statistical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - BREANNA LASHEA VINSON, 26, of Elk City, Oklahoma; SHANQUAIE STEVENSON, 27, of Weatherford, Oklahoma; and KAYLA RENE JACKSON, 27, of Elk City were sentenced yesterday to federal prison for conspiracy to embezzle funds from a federally insured bank, in connection with a $427,632.90 embezzlement from Great Plains National Bank ("GPNB") in Elk City, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for lying on his passport application.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to provide comment on the Alaska-specific offshore areas in the Draft Proposed Program (DPP) for Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing for 2019-2024 that should be included in its Final Proposed Program.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a markup for Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - A Lemon Grove, California resident, and a Harrodsburg, Kentucky resident were convicted on Jan. 25, 2018, on multiple child exploitation crimes, including conspiracy offenses, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania after a seven-day jury trial before United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane...
