News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Derek Hillgert, 29, of Carmichael, and Jeffrey Wilhite, 30, of Linden, charging them with access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of stolen mail, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Southeastern Utah is experiencing hazardous fire conditions due to prolonged drought and extremely dry vegetation. Weather forecasts and wildland fire prediction models point to increased fire danger. As a result, on Friday, June 15, 2018, all Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, State of Utah and unincorporated private lands in the following areas will increase fire restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Went on Shooting Spree in Public Housing Neighborhoods and Also Fired at Responding Police Officers.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a full committee hearing on democracy promotion...
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 Homeland Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Mexican national convicted of rape and a citizen of El Salvador convicted of Voluntary Manslaughter are among the 162 aliens taken into custody earlier this week during a three-day enforcement operation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeting at-large criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Marvin Geovani Ramirez-Marroquin, 33, an illegal alien from Guatemala, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to unlawful re-entry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles of Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Joseph A. Banco Jr., Acting Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Waheba Issa Dais, 45, originally of Israel and a U.S. legal permanent resident residing in Cudahy, Wisconsin, has been charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: (CONCORD, N.H.) - Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Alfredo Gonzalez, 50, of Manchester was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his involvement in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: An Elyria man was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for selling a mixture of fentanyl and heroin that resulted in the overdose death of a Lorain County woman.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Charges Include Firearms, Drugs, Burglary, And Assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Roland Yockel, II, 31, of Hilton NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to serve 156 months in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to pay $7,200 in restitution to victims and he will have to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Man Wearing NY Yankees Cap Robs NE Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Dr. William Bacon, age 82 and Dr. Donatus O. Mbanefo, age 64, were found guilty by a jury of conspiracy to dispense controlled substances outside the usual course of medical practice and without a legitimate...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy, in partnership with the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), is hosting a free webinar titled “Evaluating Tribal Utility Authority Opportunities" on Wednesday, June 27, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the president released approximately $6.6 million in frozen funds for the White Helmets and the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism in Syria...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: Southeastern Utah is experiencing hazardous fire conditions due to prolonged drought and extremely dry vegetation. Weather forecasts and wildland fire prediction models point to increased fire danger. As a result, on Friday, June 15, 2018, all Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, State of Utah and unincorporated private lands in the following areas will increase fire restrictions:.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Three additional doctors have been charged in three new cases for their roles in a 15-year-long health care fraud scheme that involved more than $40 million in illegal kickbacks paid to doctors and other medical professionals in exchange for referring thousands of patients who received spinal surgeries. As a result of the kickback scheme, more than $580 million in fraudulent bills were submitted, mostly to California’s worker compensation system.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that the University of Utah will receive up to $140 million in continued funding over the next five years for cutting-edge geothermal research and development. After three years of planning, site characterization, and competition...
