News from March 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - International students who come to the United States must follow a specific set of rules. However, different rules apply depending on the student’s education level and program of study. That’s why, on Feb. 28, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), launched a revamped Guide to Studying in the States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Maryland MS-13 Member Convicted in Federal Racketeering Conspiracy Including Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - William Charles Pelletier has been indicted by a federal grand jury charged with abusive sexual contact for sexually assaulting a female passenger on a Delta flight to Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officer Anthony Careathers was sentenced today to twenty-four months’ imprisonment for accepting a bribe from an owner of an automobile collision shop in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to that shop, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Saturday, March 10, 2018, the Phoenix Police Department arrested Yolanda Young, 46, following a bank robbery at Desert Financial Credit Union at 6145 North 35th Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona. During the robbery, Young allegedly presented the teller with a demand note, received an undisclosed amount of money, and fled before she was apprehended.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a new report issued by the Department of the Interior Inspector General regarding cybersecurity challenges...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: The FBI is Seeking the Public's Assistance Regarding a Bank Robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ENGLEWOOD, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Langston Concrete Inc. for failing to protect its workers from trench collapse hazards. The Colorado Springs company faces proposed penalties of $90,535.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that REZA OLANGIAN, a dual citizen of the United States and Iran, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison, after being found guilty in November 2016, of conspiring and attempting to send surface-to-air...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Christopher Loran Bentley (31, Jacksonville) to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing a pistol after having been convicted of a felony, and for possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine and heroin. He pleaded guilty to the offenses on Oct. 19, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Jimmy Hallums, age 40, and Christine Wellwood, age 34, were sentenced to 188 months (or 15 ½ years) imprisonment and 144 months (or 12 years) imprisonment, respectively in federal court in Greenville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: On March 12, 2018, Mark Winston Pickrell and Aubrey Dean Bullard were sentenced for their respective roles in a conspiracy to illegally possess and sell unregistered firearms. The sentences were handed down by the Honorable Chief Judge J. Randal Hall, United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Former Detroit Police Department Officer Anthony Careathers was sentenced today to twenty-four months’ imprisonment for accepting a bribe from an owner of an automobile collision shop in exchange for referring stolen and abandoned vehicles recovered in the City of Detroit to that shop, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jun Ying has been indicted on federal charges of insider trading relating to his sales of Equifax Inc. securities in advance of its announcement regarding a data breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the March 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Charles McRae, age 37, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on March 13, 2018, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Winchester woman was sentenced today for bank fraud after using forged checks and account numbers to steal nearly a million dollars.
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize U.S. global food assistance programs as part of the 2018 farm bill. The Food for Peace Modernization Act of 2018 (FPMA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Samuel Jason Nutt, age 50, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e), punishable...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Shiquisa Monique Watts, a/k/a “Quisha," age 23, of Fort Mill, plead guilty today in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). United...
