News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSE ARTEAGA-CENTENO, age 43, a native of Mexico, was charged yesterday in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Raytown, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in order to prevent dozens of rental properties from being sold by the county for failure to pay property taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Total of Nine Defendants Face Charges Involving Sales of PCP, Crack Cocaine, and Heroin.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailing their concerns with Facebook’s use and protection of user data and requesting that he testify before the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: FBI Provides Update on Travis Air Force Base Security Incident.
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 DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) celebrated the conclusion of the Fiscal Year 2018 (FY 2018) appropriations process. The Omnibus bill, signed by President Trump, includes $34.5 billion in funding for the DOE.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 46-year-old inmate who formerly resided in Houston has received another federal sentence for threatening a U.S. District Judge, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. George Yarbrough pleaded guilty Sept. 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a three-count indictment this week charging Donnie Arlondo Ferrell, 25, and Bei-jing Tashawna Walker, aka “Channelle Walker," 24, both of Hutchins, Texas, with felony offenses related to the Feb. 19, 2018 murder of a United States Postal Service employee. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Several charged in a conspiracy with stealing nearly one-hundred firearms from licensed dealers in Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: The last of four defendants was sentenced on March 13, 2018 for his role in a narcotics ring, operating out of Broward County, involving the powerful opioid fentanyl, as well as cocaine, oxycodone, methamphetamine, and amphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Wyoming Military Department Found Liable for Subjecting Employee to Sexual Harassment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced that the Louisville Federal Grand Jury returned 21 felony indictments charging 23 individuals this week with multiple counts, including firearms violations, possession and distribution of scheduled drugs as well as the filing of an additional criminal complaint of two Tennessee residents charged in a conspiracy of stealing nearly one-hundred firearms from dealers licensed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter today to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailing their concerns with Facebook’s use and protection of user data and requesting that he testify before the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Massachusetts-based medical device manufacturer Alere Inc. and its subsidiary Alere San Diego (Alere) have agreed to pay the United States $33.2 million to resolve allegations that Alere caused hospitals to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal healthcare programs relating to the use of materially unreliable point-of-care diagnostic testing devices.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA)-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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member wanted for violent crimes in El Salvador was removed from the U.S. Friday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Toa Baja man was arrested Wednesday in the municipality of Vega Baja on child exploitation charges. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted the investigation that led to the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shane Aurand, 21, of Gowanda, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum sentence of 20 years, and a $250,000 fine.
