News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A man responsible for distributing a large amount of heroin that resulted in the fatal overdose of one person has been convicted of distributing heroin. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jasmine T. Wing, a resident of Hazleton, PA, was charged on June 16, 2017 in a criminal information with making false statements in the purchase of six firearms in Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Suffolk woman pleaded guilty today to her role in a fraud scheme that prepared hundreds of false tax returns that resulted in a loss of approximately $1.6 million to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Honorees Represent 17 Agencies, Worked on Dozens of Cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two shipping companies based in Egypt and Singapore pleaded guilty today in federal court in Beaumont, Texas, to violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS) and obstruction of justice for covering up the illegal dumping of oil-contaminated bilge water and garbage from one of their ships into the sea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Tyrone D. Heard, 41, of Belleville, Illinois was sentenced to 151 months of imprisonment on June 19, 2017 for possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Voluntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced today that U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced Wilbert Mathes, 40, to twenty seven (27) years in federal prison, as the leader of a large scale drug trafficking network operating in the Baton Rouge region. Mathes was also ordered to forfeit to the United States $593,000, representing the drug proceeds generated during the conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On June 19, 2017, Beatrice Denise Welsh, 40, of Parker, Ariz., a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 42 months in prison. Welsh was found guilty by a federal jury of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man was sentenced this morning on a pair of federal charges related to cocaine distribution and illegal firearms possession, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Back by popular demand! Join Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park for a free training on tour content on Wednesday, July 5 at 7:00 pm. The park invites guides, drivers, and community members to share information in the park theater. Bring your questions and bring your answers!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with First Degree Murder - Felony Murder, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury of a Minor, Felony Child Abuse-Aggravated Battery of an Infant, and Felony Child Abuse and Neglect.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah - In order to keep the public safe, fire restrictions will start at 12:01 a.m., June 21 on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, covering all BLM administered public lands in Beaver, Kane, Garfield, Iron and Washington counties in Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant PETER MENDIOLA DIEGO, age 48, from Tamuning, was sentenced yesterday in District Court to a 63-month term of imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Rosenberg, Texas man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Edred Buchanan, 40, of Woonsocket, was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison for committing two bank robberies a week apart in November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Prineville Police Captain Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Federal scientists forecast that this summer’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone - an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and other marine life - will be approximately 8,185 square miles, or about the size of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: FBI and Duluth PD Search for Armed Commercial Robber Stealing IPhone 7Plus.
