News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Ian Garriques will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Trenton, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for robbing Metro PCS stores in Willingboro, New Jersey, Lumberton, New Jersey, and Levittown, Pennsylvania, in September and October 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee received responses to questions posed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Port of Entry (POE) investigations, specifically the Office of Criminal Investigation’s (OCI) actions to combat the opioid crisis, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jay Eugene Reed, age 58, of Three Springs, Pennsylvania was sentenced on Oct. 30, 2018, by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 70 years’ imprisonment followed by a lifetime term of supervised release for exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for illegally having ammunition stemming from a shootout last year in which two people were killed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Paris man was indicted by a federal grand jury today, and charged with engaging in crop insurance fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Columbia, Kentucky man was sentenced today in United States District Court by Judge Greg Stivers to 360 months of imprisonment on charges of arson and insurance fraud. Steve Allen “Boo" Pritchard, 44, started a fire that completely destroyed his rental home to collect on a recently purchased $50,000 rental insurance policy. Columbia/Adair County Fire Department Assistant Chief Charles Sparks died fighting the fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant had four prior deportations to Mexico.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry today requesting information...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President’s fearmongering immigration speech today...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Four alleged members or associates of the Aryan Circle (AC) have been indicted and three arrested for their alleged roles in a Nov. 9, 2013 aggravated assault in Jefferson County, Missouri.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Southbury, Connecticut man was sentenced to 24 months’ imprisonment Nov. 1, followed by three years’ supervised release, after pleading guilty to cyberstalking, following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Philadelphia, Philadelphia Police Department, and the Drexel University Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a firearms trafficking scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Stephen H. Wong (619) 546-9464 and. Lara A. Stingley (619) 546-8403. Carlos Adolfo Soto and Justin Wayne Caldwell pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbing 10 Metro PCS stores and a Subway restaurant in January and February of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JEFFERY B. MONTALBANO, age 58, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge Susie Morgan to a one-count bill of information with making false statements to federal authorities, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 1001(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant Failed To Report More than $1.1 Million From Marijuana Distribution On Tax Returns.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry today requesting information...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Thank you, AG Sessions. The threats we face in the national security realm have never been more complex. And today, we’re standing before you focused on one country that continues to pose one of the broadest, most complicated, and long-term threats: China.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jesse Tucker, 36, of Tijeras, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison for his conviction on fraud, identity theft, and theft of mail charges. Tucker will be on supervised release for two years after completing his prison sentence. Tucker also was ordered to pay $42,600.42 in restitution to the victims of his crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
Release: NANTUCKET, Mass. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a one-day recruitment and hiring event Saturday, Nov. 3, to recruit full- and part-time Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to work at Nantucket Memorial Airport (ACK).
