News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, returned an indictment today charging Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, 43, a Guatemalan citizen, with one count of bank robbery for the Nov. 20, 2017, robbery of Happy State Bank in Lubbock, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after Republican leaders once again undermined bipartisan efforts to protect families from the higher premiums they will see next year due to Republican health care sabotage.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose sentenced Davion Burge, age 22, of Davenport, to 84 months in prison for a felon in possession of a firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Burge was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his imprisonment and pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: POCATELLO - Michael Simmons, 33, of Pocatello, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to distribution of a controlled substance analogue resulting in death, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Simmons was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on Sept. 13, 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that yesterday in Federal court in New Bern, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CHRISTOPHER LEON BROWN and MARK RAYFIELD BROWN, JR., both of Raleigh, North Carolina...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 21, 2017, Gayle Sicard Shapiro Green, 65, of Greeneville Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 16 months in federal prison for mail fraud and money laundering. Green was the former Greeneville City Schools Director of Finance and volunteer treasurer for both the Tennessee Basketry Association and the Greater Kingsport Kennel Club.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Used a firearm while committing robberies.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Lorena Loren, the former executive director of the St. Clair Housing Commission, was sentence today to 37 months in federal prison after having pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit federal program fraud, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kathryn Cojo, 33, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Used a firearm while committing robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A federal grand jury in Lubbock, Texas, returned an indictment today charging Eddie Estuardo Galindo-Mendez, 43, a Guatemalan citizen, with one count of bank robbery for the Nov. 20, 2017, robbery of Happy State Bank in Lubbock, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Gilliam County Sheriff Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ricky Joe Garcia, 53, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 184 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction and a supervised release violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Ryan Faulconer, 25, of Nashua, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for illegal possessing firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Naif Wedad Nazer (39, Laguna Niguel, California) with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies him that the United States is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $811,162.06, the proceeds of the charged criminal offense.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to producing child pornography by using a smartphone to stream several live videos from his home to another Utah suspect between June 2013 and August 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement upon introduction of the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: FBI Investigating Gulf Coast Bank & Trust Robbery Located at 201 North Carrollton Avenue.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: Highlighting the major efforts the administration is dedicating to combating the opioid drugs crisis, President Donald J. Trump held a policy forum on “Opioids: The Crisis Next Door" at Manchester Community College on Monday, March 19, 2018 in Manchester, NH.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Anti-Defamation League, and Louisiana State University Police Department hosted a Faith-Based Security Summit yesterday for faith-based leaders and their security teams.