News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On May 17, 2018, Glen S. Davis, age 48, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to one year and one day in prison for interstate communication of a threat, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Following his prison term, Davis will serve three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - On May 26, the Bureau of Land Management is waiving the access fee to the Dripping Springs Natural Area and the Aguirre Spring Recreation Area (fees for overnight camping will still apply). The fee free weekend is to get the public outdoors to enjoy the outstanding recreational and cultural values of public land.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, wrote a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena to compel the White House to produce documents it has been withholding regarding a rejected application for access...
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today examining two bills focused on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) cleanup responsibilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 16, 2018, Wayne Montierth, 54, of Safford, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to serve 210 months in prison. After a trial, a jury found Montierth guilty of four counts of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging David Roy Jones, 52, formerly of Rochester, NY, with two counts of production of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CARLOS ALBERTO ANDRADE, age 35, a citizen of El Salvador, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien after deportation, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Crime Spree Included Carjacking, Terrorizing Victims at Gunpoint.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), held a hearing today examining two bills focused on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) cleanup responsibilities.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining the emergence of quantum computing and the importance of the U.S. remaining at the forefront of developing this innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - An Irving man, David Rice, age 32, who admitted that he and his co-conspirator, Kevin Iles, committed the armed robberies of four grocery stores in June 2015, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 155 months (13 years) in federal prison for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery and for a firearm offense related to the conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered the following opening remarks today at a hearing on Quantum Computing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: WACO, TX-A federal criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday charging a 44-year-old Killeeen man with robbing the First National Bank in Killeen last month, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Kaleb Lee Basey, 28, formerly assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline to 15 years in prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for distribution and transportation of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered the following opening remarks today at a hearing on Quantum Computing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - LESEAN D. HARDY, 38, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded guilty to causing a false statement to be made to a licensed firearms dealer, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Defendant Cited His Organized Crime Ties in Threats to Disrupt Construction Projects.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: Former New York City Correction Department Investigator Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Transporting, Receiving and Possessing Child Pornography.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to news that the Trump Administration plans to announce drastic changes to the Title X program that would undermine women’s access to health care and reproductive services by placing new restrictions on federal family planning funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On May 11, 2018, Robert W. Bennett, age 51, of Council Bluffs, appeared before United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose and was sentenced to 121 months in prison for receipt of child pornography announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Bennett was ordered to serve five years of supervised release to follow his prison term.
