News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -A Kentucky man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a loaded gun in his carry-on bag at the Huntington Tri-State Airport checkpoint on Monday, June 11.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Shifting channels and numerous newly created logjams have created unpredictable and unusually challenging conditions on the Snake River between Deadman’s Bar and Moose Landing, specifically in the area directly upstream of Bar BC Ranch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Nigerian national was charged in federal court in Boston in connection with unlawfully possessing the identifications of two victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: El PASO, Texas - Rhonda Lynn Chesser Lindstrom, 41, formerly of El Paso, Texas was sentenced Thursday, June 7, 2018, by Senior U.S. District Judge David Briones to four years probation and a $1,000 fine, on each count of the indictment, said terms to run concurrent, and to home confinement for a period of six months, following a four-day trial in March 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jong Sung (“John") Kim has been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted by a jury on two counts of interfering with commerce by extortion. Kim served as a lieutenant for Eugene Chung, the former leader of a gang that specialized in the violent collection of debts from business owners...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Five Individuals Convicted and Sentenced to Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. -Rodrigo D. Ferrareze, age 38, of Delray Beach, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve 10 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, and to pay $6,450.00 in restitution to a victim, for fraud in connection with access devices, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (CA-11) and Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee Elijah E. Cummings (MD-07) called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to produce a copy of a 2006 Department of Justice (DOJ) report concluding that Purdue Pharma, the company often linked with the genesis of the opioid epidemic, knew of significant abuses of its drug OxyContin shortly after it was brought to market in 1996.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Frank Junior Young, 23, of Page, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 144 months in prison, followed by a term of 15 years of supervised release. Young had previously pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - If there were a rookie-of the-year award for field work supervisors, Chad Kirby would be a leading contender.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security and co-Chair of the Congressional Task Force on Election Security, released the following statement on news from Special Counsel Robert Mueller that election meddling operations are still ongoing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Branchland man who broke into a local pawn shop and stole firearms on three separate occasions pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Huntington to multiple firearms charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: On the morning of June 12, 2018, at the United States District Court in Benton, Illinois, Ryan A. Thorpe, 44, the former Treasurer for the City of Zeigler, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for his conviction for wire fraud and embezzlement from a local government, announced Donald S. Boyce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442 and Andrew Young (619) 546-7981.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced Monday to 28 years in federal prison for producing hundreds of photos and videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of a federal indictment and arrests of three defendants charged with committing federal drug and firearms offenses in Osceola.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Charles “Marty" Permenter, age 56, of El Dorado, Arkansas was sentenced yesterday to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for producing hundreds of photos and videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, announced today the unsealing of a federal indictment and arrests of three defendants charged with committing federal drug and firearms offenses in Osceola.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the Committee’s hearing with Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services, about the President’s Blueprint to reduce drug prices.
