News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who was already serving a 25-year prison sentence for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization pleaded guilty today to trying to kill the warden of the federal prison where he was serving his sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and 53 House Democrats sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today on the Trump administration’s recent announcement that the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Fish and Wildlife...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Kansas City man was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years and six months in federal prison for trafficking methamphetamine in Topeka, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has filed a Complaint-in-Intervention (the “Complaint") in a lawsuit, Bronx Independent Living Services v. Metropolitan Transit Authority, filed against the Metropolitan Transit...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding President Donald J. Trump’s intention to nominate Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today a federal grand jury returned a 98-count superseding indictment against the owners, managers and physicians associated with HOPE Clinic. The superseding indictment added 29 counts of distributing and dispensing controlled substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man today admitted that he planned to construct and use a pressure cooker bomb in New York on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah. E. Cummings and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, the Ranking Member and Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter requesting that Chairman Trey Gowdy place 13 motions for subpoenas on the agenda for the Committee’s upcoming business meeting on Thursday, March 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: American Citizen Sentenced To 45 Years for Conspiring to Murder U.S. Nationals and Providing Material Support to Al-Qaeda.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon Fremin announced today that JOSHUA ANDREW GUILLOT, age 30, of Denham Springs, Louisiana, has been convicted of one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1), and one count of possession of an unregistered...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Kevin Ismael Lopez, 25, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced Friday, March 9, 2018 by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 327 months in federal prison and 20 years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in November 2017 to two counts of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Douglas Leff, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Juan Field Office, presented Mr. Nelson Soto of American Petroleum with the 2017 FBI Director’s Community Leadership award (DCLA). On Friday, April 20, 2018, FBI Director Christopher Wray will present Mr. Soto with the award during a formal ceremony at FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man today admitted that he planned to construct and use a pressure cooker bomb in New York on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - It was engineered chaos at the Museum of Idaho for Fluor Idaho Engineering Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Josue Daniel Alfaro to serve 63 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Edward McDavid, 28, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years in federal prison, followed by a three-year term of supervised release, for possessing a firearm as a felon. McDavid pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 19, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 2018 Waste Management Symposia that gets under way Sunday in Phoenix will feature the development and application of robotics to address radioactive waste challenges. EM Update spoke with Rod Rimando, director of the EM Office of Technology Development, about the uses of robotic technology and potential benefits to the cleanup mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant jumps from a second story balcony to avoid capture.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: A New York resident was sentenced in federal court on March 10, 2018, for a three-year fraud scheme involving aggravated identity theft and money laundering.
