News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for his role in an armed bank robbery.
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), and Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) today introduced legislation to require congressional approval of tariffs designated under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: (TAMPA, Fla.) - Tony Marvin Johnson (34, Bradenton) was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He had pleaded guilty on December 7, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Tomorrow, the House is expected to consider H.R. 3, the Trump-GOP rescissions bill. Here are five important things to know.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Defendant Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, of Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday in United States District Court for the District of South Carolina to one count of forced labor, admitting that he used violence, threats, isolation and intimidation to compel a man with an intellectual disability...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: In the fourth major drug trafficking ring takedown in as many months, federal, state and local law enforcement officers fanned out across King, Pierce, Snohomish, Skagit and Thurston Counties to execute search warrants and arrest more than 35 members of a drug trafficking organization, announced U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHANE BLAKE, 35, of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that a federal grand jury in Rutland today indicted Randall Swartz, 58, of Orleans, on 11 counts of mail fraud. Swartz will be arraigned on these charges in the near future in U.S. District Court in Burlington. No court date has been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that retired Philadelphia Police Officer Victor Gates was found guilty today by a federal jury of honest services mail fraud conspiracy, honest services mail fraud, and making false statements. The jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding the defendant guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Shayne Carson, age 54, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, dubbed the “Double Hat Bandit during a string of bank robberies committed in Utah and six other states between Oct. 15, 2016, and Sept. 16, 2017, has pleaded guilty to 18 robberies. Sentencing is set for Aug. 15, 2018, in U.S. District Judge Jill Parrish’s courtroom in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Defendant Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, of Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday in United States District Court for the District of South Carolina to one count of forced labor, admitting that he used violence, threats, isolation and intimidation to compel a man with an intellectual disability...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Calvert, Chairman Frelinghuysen and Ranking Member McCollum, for your work on this bill.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released legislation as a result of her wide-ranging investigation exposing the financial ties between opioid manufacturers and third party advocacy groups. The...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A Montana woman was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for producing and receiving child pornography. Her common-law husband was previously sentenced to nearly 42 years in federal prison related to this same investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CHRISTIAN IVAN CARDENAS, 21, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 128 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is considering H.R. 8, the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 (WRDA), bipartisan legislation that provides for improvements to the Nation’s ports, inland waterways, locks, dams, flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and other water resources infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (“ATF") and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Ashan M. Benedict, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (“ATF") and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: A paralegal employed by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, has been arrested on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Tribal leader bemoans the desecration of hallowed remains of ancestors.
