News from March 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: After Victim Resisted, He Threatened to Beat Her If She Told What Happened.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Eugene Joseph Martinez, 20, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 240 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in December 2017 to one count of transportation of a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Saturday, April 14, at 2 pm, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will provide a special 90-minute driving/walking tour following General John B. Hood’s famous Texas Brigade. This tour begins at the Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, couple was arrested this morning by federal agents on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States by evading the payment of personal and employment taxes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A fugitive wanted by the FBI for nearly 15 years was arrested this morning and appeared in court for his role in orchestrating a wire fraud and bank fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 57-year-old man has been ordered to prison following his conviction of trafficking heroin, cocaine and nearly 12 kilograms of fentanyl, announced U.S. States Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jeffrey Layne Parker, of Belleville, Illinois, pleaded guilty Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Joshua Lane Rogers, 34, and Richard William Lockley, 34, both of Stuart, pled guilty to producing pornography of a teenage victim.

By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
Release: Lincoln, Neb. - The Transportation Security Administration is implementing new procedures for screening electronics larger than a cell phone at Lincoln Airport.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Schenectady, N.Y., man was charged in federal court in Springfield yesterday with failing to register as a sex offender.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on five produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: This winter, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site partnered with the Mill Neck Manor School for the Deaf to increase accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing visitors. Staff and volunteers worked with educator Janice Buonincontri for ten weeks learning the basics of American Sign Language and how to incorporate it into daily operations around the site.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against an alleged member of a heroin distribution conspiracy that reached from the Bronx, New York, to Paterson and suburban communities in New York and New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: TODD DELAUNE age 53, a resident of Larose, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for violation of the Federal Gun Control Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Joshua Lane Rogers, 34, and Richard William Lockley, 34, both of Stuart, pled guilty to producing pornography of a teenage victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)-the top Democrats on committees with jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act (ACA)-today released the following joint statement to highlight the eighth anniversary of the law...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Jaquon H. Mucsarney, age 36, of Aurora, Colorado pled guilty on March 21, 2018, to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Bob Troyer, IRS - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne and Social Security Administration...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been activated, along with Special Agents from the ATF Philadelphia Field Division, and ATF Harrisburg Field Office, to respond to the fire that occurred at 127 N. Broad St., in York, ...

By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: KALAMAZOO, Mich. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers arrested 16 individuals for violating federal immigration laws in western Michigan during a four-day targeted enforcement operation that ended Thursday. Nine of the immigration violators arrested during the operation were convicted criminals.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky., - Stanford Ray Coleman, 47, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to 340 months [28 years] in prison by United States District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves for Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone. Judge Reeves also ordered Coleman to pay a fine of $15,000.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Ross Roggio, age 49, of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, and Roggio Consulting Company, LLC, a firm with which Ross Roggio was associated, for alleged...