News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: EDUARDO AGUILAR, 27, of La Puente, California, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on June 12, 2018, for conspiracy to distribute heroin. Aguilar was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received sixty months of imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment and $400.00 fine. The Wyoming Highway Patrol and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation investigated this case.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Beginning at 12:01 am, Thursday, June 14, 2018, the Superintendent has lifted the closure of federal land located within Locust Grove, Lions Island, and the Kettle Falls Trail System with the exception of the slash piles located within the previously closed area. For safety reasons, the slash piles are off limits to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced today that a prosecutor with the state Attorney General’s office would be designated as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in an effort to help reduce violent crime in the Monroe area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Albert Hessberg III, age 63, of Slingerlands, New York, appeared today in federal court on charges that he defrauded and stole money from his clients and former law firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEITH A. JAMES, age 27, of New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman set JAMES’s sentencing on Sept. 26, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: An alleged Sinaloa Cartel member is in federal custody, following his extradition from Mexico to the United States yesterday afternoon. He is expected to make his initial appearance later today in federal court in El Paso.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a contract to provide a variety of services at the Hanford Site, called the Hanford Occupational Medical Services Contract (OccMed). The total estimated value of the contract is up to approximately $125 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Carlos Jerome Dukes, Jr., 19, of Moss Point, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - William W. Seelbach, of Fort Meyers, Florida, and Jolynn Gilchrist, of Wheeling, West Virginia, have admitted to tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Eugene Troxell, age 46, of Elkhart, Indiana, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. for being a felon in possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kevin Joseph Martin, 43, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to one count of attempting to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual activity, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio -William P. Elschlager, 49, of Marietta, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to cyberstalking.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced legislation to establish a “9/11-style" independent commission to investigate the federal response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man arrested for distributing approximately eight pounds of methamphetamine has made his initial appearance in federal court, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the June 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was charged in federal court today with making a deal to buy two tiger pelts in violation of the federal Lacey Act, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement in response to the release of the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on FBI activities prior to the 2016 election...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Huntsville man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to charges that he paid the father of a 15-year-old so he could have sexual contact with the child, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for distributing methamphetamine.
