News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Jason Mize, 31, of Cincinnati, with using unreasonable force while acting under color of law in an indictment returned here yesterday and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: On May 8, 2018, Dwayne L. Watson, a/k/a "C," 44, of Murphysboro, Illinois, was charged by indictment with two counts of Unlawful Distribution of Heroin and one count of Unlawful Distribution of Cocaine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The...
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and all Democratic members of the Committee introduced H.R. 5857, the “Stop Sexual Assault and Harassment in Transportation Act," legislation that requires passenger airlines, commuter and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAEL C. CRAWFORD, JR., age 42, of Houma, pled guilty today to three counts of distribution of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Timpanogos Cave National Monument assists Utah County Sheriff with search for missing American Fork woman.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously approved Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel’s legislation to hold accountable those responsible for the ongoing violence against the Rohingya people in Burma. The BURMA Act, which Representative Engel introduced earlier this week along with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that a federal jury has unanimously convicted three Louisiana residents of insider trading in connection with the acquisition of the Shaw Group, after a three-week jury trial before United States District Judge John W. deGravelles in the Middle District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced today Derek Joseph Parker, 33, of Indian Trail, N.C. to 20 years in federal prison for his role in drug trafficking conspiracy that resulted in a heroin overdose death, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after voting to confirm Gina Haspel as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to serve local communities through the management of sustainable, working public lands, the Bureau of Land Management has analyzed a proposed gypsum mining expansion project located in Big Horn County. The BLM Cody Field Office will accept comments on the environmental assessment (EA) through June 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March 15, 2018, Senior United States District Comi Judge Hugh Lawson sentenced Burt Denson, age 41, of Quitman, GA, to 185 months imprisonment for two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine. Mr. Denson pleaded guilty to the offense on Oct. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Tambra Brown, 30, of Grenada, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, Jr. to 175 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith. Brown was also ordered to pay a $3,000.00 fine.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Legislative Hearing on S.2800, America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Full Committee Markup on opioid bills...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation, 150 hours’ community service, and a $3000 fine on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: Scott Alexander, 56 and Nancy Alexander, 52, from Belleville, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to Embezzlement and Theft from a Labor Union and Wire Fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald Boyce, announced today. The offenses carry a possible sentence of up to 25 years in jail, a fine of up to $500,000 and mandatory restitution. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 24, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Jay Lusher, a 15-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been named regional fire management officer of the NPS Intermountain Region by Regional Chief Ranger Mike Archer. Lusher is chief of fire and aviation of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. He will begin his new assignment July 22, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an 11-count indictment today charging two Syrian men with offenses relating to their participation in a conspiracy to engage in computer hacking as members of the “Syrian Electronic Army" or “SEA.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Richard Torruellas (a.k.a. “Scoob"), 23, of Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 54 months imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford sitting in U.S. District Court in...
