News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Dec. 11, 2019, Senior U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins sentenced defendant Audias Sanchez-Colin to 10 years in prison for Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens for Profit and Illegal Reentry into the United States of a Removed Alien. The defendant was one of 26 codefendants who had been previously charged in this conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and one count of Aggravated Incest was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is cosponsoring bipartisan legislation to give the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) additional tools to hold drug distributors, manufacturers and pharmacies accountable for identifying, reporting and stopping suspicious orders...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former vice president of the First National Bank of Harveyville, Kan., pleaded guilty to a federal charge of embezzlement, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today. The defendant also agreed to make restitution of approximately $107,175.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), James Lankford (R-OK), Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) applauded the final passage of H.R. 150, the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act. The bipartisan, bicameral bill will require the Office of Management and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and one count of Aggravated Incest was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: RAINBOW CITY, AL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited national discount retailer Dollar Tree Stores Inc. for exposing employees to safety hazards at its Rainbow Drive store in Rainbow City, Alabama. The company faces $104,192 in penalties.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following statement on reports that the Trump Administration is planning to retire Ambassador Bill Taylor from his role as the top diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Particles can sometimes act like waves, and photons (particles of light) are no exception. Just as waves create an interference pattern, like ripples on a pond, so do photons. Physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have achieved a major new feat - creating a bizarre “quantum" interference between two photons of markedly different colors, originating from different buildings on the University of Maryland campus.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert A. Karmann, 53, of Clayton, pleaded guilty today to his participation in a massive fraud scheme involving a solar energy company in Benicia that defrauded investors of approximately $1 billion, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, U.S. Department of Energy issued a Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal (DD&R) contract. A multiple award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, utilizing Firm-Fixed Price (FFP) and/or Cost Reimbursement (CR)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant and His Co-Conspirators Used Fake Companies, Fraudulently Obtained Identification Documents, and Sham Company Bank Accounts to Cash Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Fake Payroll Checks.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Just in time for the holiday travel season, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that it now offers blended lanes at 13 airports in Montana. Blended lanes provide TSA Pre✓® screening to eligible travelers and their carry-on luggage at smaller airports that do not...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A jury today convicted 13 members of the Peoria street gang known as Bomb Squad for conspiracy to organize and operate the gang as a criminal enterprise that has plagued the Peoria community with gun violence for years. These violent acts included murder, attempted murder, arson, and drug trafficking. After presentation of seven weeks of evidence, the jury deliberated over a period of three days before returning the guilty verdicts this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: A Related Forfeiture Complaint from July 2017 Has Been Unsealed for Approximately $17 Million in Seized Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A former teacher with the Newport News school system was sentenced today to five years in prison for receiving and uploading images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Providence, RI - A violent fugitive, wanted on charges of child molestation, attempted breaking and entering and vandalism, has been apprehended by the Rhode Island Violent Fugitive Task force (RI VFTF) after four years on the run.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: CENTRAL ISLIP - A Mexican national was sentenced Nov. 19 to 46 months in federal custody. The sentencing of Gerardo Gutierrez-Perez, 44, follows an investigation and arrest for illegal reentry by deportation officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-SAC Douglas Leff announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information resulting in the identification, arrest, and conviction of the individuals responsible for the armed robbery and attempted carjacking of an FBI San Juan special agent. Specifically, the FBI is seeking information on the whereabouts of.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Arkansas Sheriff Charged with Assaulting Three Individuals in Custody.
