News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: A Toledo man was indicted for robbing two banks last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who led police officers on a high-speed chase after escaping from the hospital where he was confined pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: District Judge John E. Dowdell sentenced Jeffrey Ray Townsend, 52, of Collinsville, to 30 months in prison followed by 5 years supervised release. He will also have to register as a Sex Offender. The Court also imposed a mandatory Special Assessment of $5,100. Townsend pleaded guilty on May 8, 2018, to one count of accessing with intent to view child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kevin L. Moody, age 27, Nathaniel P. Green, age 37, and Robert E. Hendrix, Jr., age 38, all of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were indicted on August 8, 2018, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Fire fighters have successfully completed 80% containment line on the Moccasin Mesa Fire, which has shown no perimeter growth since Sunday, August 5, when it was 185 acres. This lightning caused fire began Saturday, August 4, 2018 and remains under the command of the Durango Type 3 Incident Command Team;...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 30-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison for the rest of his life following his admission he sexually assaulted four minor females, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Matthew Joseph Lucio pleaded guilty April 3, 2018, to two counts each of online solicitation and production of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Cambridge, Massachusetts man who online called for the contract killing of an ICE agent was arrested Thursday following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A man who stole a car in New Bedford, Mass., in April 2018 and then used it as his getaway vehicle after robbing a bank in Tiverton, R.I., pled guilty in federal court in Providence today to a bank robbery charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Saint Vincent Harris, 22, and Anthony Dickey, 24, both of Washington, D.C., have been indicted on federal charges stemming from an alleged conspiracy to deal heroin and crack cocaine in Northwest and Southwest Washington. Harris also has been indicted on related federal firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Emilio I. Vazquez, 47, of Coral Gables, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. to 120 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for wire fraud in connection with hurricane relief efforts for Puerto Rico. Vazquez was also ordered to pay $1,514,225.55 in restitution to the victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Martin Anderson was sentenced to 220 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) anticipates issuing a prospectus for one contract to provide interpretive boat tours and watercraft rentals within Glacier National Park. The NPS expects to release the prospectus in the late fall of 2018 after these services and associated facilities close for the season; therefore, the NPS will not conduct an official site visit of the concession facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Robin Kelly, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Information Technology, sent a letter to Chairman Trey Gowdy requesting that he issue a subpoena to the State...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - Due to dry conditions and high fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management Buffalo Field Office is implementing Stage 1 fire restrictions for all BLM-administered public lands within the boundaries of Campbell and Sheridan Counties, beginning Aug. 10, 2018. The BLM urges visitors to these public lands to adhere to the restrictions, in order to aid firefighters and help keep the lands healthy and productive.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Steven Zepp, 28, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of importing a controlled substance from a foreign country, was sentenced to serve 20 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally possessing several firearms following a police pursuit yesterday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A collaboration of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers arrested multiple defendants Thursday in an early-morning operation that dismantled a significant drug-trafficking organization responsible for distributing kilograms of cocaine and other controlled substances in central Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that IRA MALKIN, 49, of Hamden, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tax evasion. During his term of supervised release, MALKIN must spend six months in home confinement and perform 200 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that Martin Anderson was sentenced to 220 months in prison, five years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters presided over the hearing.
