News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A jury today convicted a Wichita man on federal drug and firearm charges, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three Columbia, Mo., men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in distributing synthetic heroin, which resulted in the death of an 18-year-old man.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: SONORA, Calif. - On Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region, Central California Area Office, will waive day use fees at New
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) El Centro Field Office will waive recreation-related fees for visitors on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11 and Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Day weekend, Jan. 13-16, 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Two Chicago men have been charged with federal drug and firearm violations for allegedly selling heroin out of a backyard in the North Lawndale neighborhood.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WALLACE STOGNER, age 61, of Bogalusa; DANIELLE MEISNER, age 31, of Mandeville; and KAREN SMITH, of Slidell, were each sentenced today in connection with an investigation into the illegal diversion of Oxycodone pills through a clinic formerly operating in Bogalusa and New Orleans East. Oxycodone is a prescription-only Schedule II controlled substance and a highly addictive and abused opioid drug.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Brooklyn man, who previously pled guilty to a federal cocaine charge, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, announced United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Futures Trader Pleads Guilty to Illegally Manipulating the Futures Market in Connection with 2010 'Flash Crash'.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: One Shooting Resulted in the Death of an Innocent Bystander.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three co-defendants were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine in Boone County, Mo.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management began a 30-day public comment period on a preliminary environmental assessment evaluating offering about 100,000 acres of federal minerals in northwestern Colorado for oil and gas leasing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Carlos M. Gonzalez, Public Information Officer, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, Adolphus P. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced yesterday a Weaverville, N.C. man to 204 months in prison on child coercion and enticement charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn also ordered Benjamin...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Richard Charles Frey, 41, of East Moriches, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in prison for bank robbery. Frey was ordered to pay restitution of $4,785 to four bank victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: A one-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Massimo Dabusco, also known as “Max," and Vito Menadi with conspiracy to commit extortion. The indictment was returned under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn on November...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Law Enforcement Seeking Information Regarding Missing 24-Year-Old Lakewood Woman.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and to a forcing or coercing women into engaging in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: As part of Veteran’s Day observances on Friday, Nov. 11, Natchez National Historical Park will offer free Melrose house tours to everyone in honor of U.S. military veterans, current members of the U.S. armed forces and their families.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 30-year-old Missouri man has been sentenced to federal prison for child exploitation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2016
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Extorted Money from Victims in the United States and Abroad.