Texas Judge Convicted of Bribery and Obstruction

Houston, Texas - A Texas state district judge has been convicted of bribery and obstruction, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas.

FBI CJIS’s National Sex Offender Registry Helps Tribal Governments and Law Enforcement Track and Identify Sex Offenders

Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Justice announced a new tool giving tribal governments the ability to directly input data and gain access to the FBI’s National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) using the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System (TTSORS).  

Heir Location Services Company and Co-Owner Plead Guilty To Antitrust Charge for Long-Running Agreement Not to Compete

Salt Lake City, Utah - Kemp & Associates Inc., a Salt Lake City-based heir location services provider, and its co-owner, Daniel J. Mannix, pleaded guilty to allocating customers with another heir location services firm, the Department of Justice announced.

U.S. Military Dependent Sentenced to Prison for Attempted Voluntary Manslaughter

Washington, DC - A Colorado man was sentenced to prison in connection with an attack on three U.S. Air Force airmen and resisting military police who attempted to restrain him.

Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

Houston, Texas - A 20-year-old U.S. citizen from Houston, Texas, has entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.  Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas made the announcement.