News from June 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Devils Tower, WY. July 4 marks 125 years since the first ascent to the summit of Devils Tower. Join us to commemorate this milestone in Devils Tower’s history. The first recorded ascent of Devils Tower was July 4th, 1893 when two local ranchers planned a climb to the summit. For months, William Rogers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed in Flint charging Doniel A. Heard of Canton, Talasha R. Willis of Flint, Kimberly A. Perryman of Mt. Morris, and Alina D. White of Waterford for their involvement in a vicious assault on a 15-year old boy, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Timothy L. Jennings, Sr., 61, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to five years in prison for robbing two banks in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Matthew J. DeSarno, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office’s Criminal Division, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: SOMERSET, KY. - Federal, state and local law enforcement officials met yesterday in Somerset, to discuss initiatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice that are designed to combat drug trafficking and violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE - As part of Take Back North Carolina Initiative, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that several cocaine and heroin centered Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force Operations (OCDETF), as well as, violent crime enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Engaged in Sex Acts with Minor and Distributed Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision to allow states to collect internet sales taxes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national, residing illegally in the United States, was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for identity theft and related charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Ah, summer has arrived in the Golden State and it’s getting hot outside, which means more people will be visiting public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for recreational opportunities like fishing, swimming, camping, rockhounding, backpacking, hiking, boating and off-highway vehicle use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Mexican nationals have admitted to a reentry of a removed alien charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement regarding the announcement from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) of the Administration’s intent to levy tariffs against certain imports from China...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 37-year-old Mozambique national residing in the Dallas area has been sentenced to prison for federal immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant had “price list" with range of firearms for sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Michael McCann, age 31, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and formerly of Ilion, New York, pled guilty today to sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Janelle M. Miller, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Juan Pacheco, Jr., 36, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, and marijuana. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - An Iranian businessman schemed with the owner of a European company to illegally export nuclear nonproliferation-controlled materials to Iran from Illinois, according to a newly unsealed federal indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - William Laurence Stanley, 54, of Dallas, Texas, a self-proclaimed black hat search engine optimizer and reputation manager was sentenced June 12, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to serve 97 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $5,605,226 in restitution, following a five-day trial in April 2017, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Tiffany Renee Pryor, formerly of Lansing, Michigan, was convicted of making a false declaration to a grand jury and sentenced to six months’ incarceration and six months’ home confinement, to be followed by two years’ supervised release. Pryor had offered false exculpatory testimony before a grand jury investigating a case regarding a felon who was in possession of a firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced a reorganization plan for the executive branch that includes a proposed merger of the Departments of Education and Labor into a new Department of Education and the Workforce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2018
News Release: Defendant deported five times; currently on supervised release for illegal reentry.
