News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michelle Troung, 34, of Clear Lake, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to six-and-a-half years in prison for conspiracy to launder money, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis-United States Attorney Josh Minkler announced today federal charges against a Muncie man for engaging in illegal sexual conduct with minor children over a three (3) year period. Nolan M. Brand, 24, Muncie, has been charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. “This Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: In recognition of January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that David Earl Johnson (37, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute fentanyl resulting in death. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, up to life, in federal prison. Johnson also must pay restitution to the family of the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Hadley Police Officer was arrested today and charged in federal court in Springfield in connection with using unreasonable force during an arrest.
By EPA 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: 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: Defendant Pled Guilty to Series of Crimes Committed Over Six-Month Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Benjamin J. Katz and Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9604 and (619) 546-9714.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NORBERTO RODRIGUEZ, also known as “Primo," 44, formerly of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - A Glendive man will spend over 6 years in federal prison for downloading and possessing child pornography to his computer. Shawn Michael Wentz, 28, previously pleaded guilty in October 2017 to possession of child pornography stemming from a May 2015 investigation by the Montana Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Homeland Security Investigation (HSI).
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: BOSTON - Akeem Castro, 25, of Holyoke, was charged in federal court in Springfield yesterday with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK JENKINS was sentenced today 24 years in prison for shooting and killing Rashaun Nicholson on Dec. 28, 2014, in furtherance of a narcotics distribution conspiracy. JENKINS pled guilty on Feb. 14, 2017, before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl, who imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Harpers Ferry, West Virginia woman has admitted today to having child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE 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: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced today that on Jan. 25, 2018, Chief United States District Court Judge Robert Rossiter sentenced Brian Tillman, age 54, of Fremont, Nebraska for his conviction for theft of government funds. Tillman was sentenced to a five-year term of probation and was ordered to pay restitution of $190,100 to the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Death Valley National Park visitors may experience up to 30-minute delays on roads this spring during road maintenance projects. The projects will allow the National Park Service to research the acoustic impacts of various pavement surfaces as well as extend the life of the pavement.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the draft environmental impact statement for the Converse County oil and gas project. Five energy companies submitted the proposal to the BLM to drill approximately 5,000 oil and natural gas wells on 1.5 million acres over 10 years. The...
