News from August 2018
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management has concluded its Red Desert Complex wild horse gather operation in southern Wyoming due to off-range corrals used to house gathered animals reaching maximum capacity. A total of 1,442 horses were gathered during the 11-day operation, which began on Aug. 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Tyrone Greene, age 44, of New York City, was sentenced on Aug. 21, 2018, by United States District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to serve five years’ imprisonment for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Previously Apprehended Four Times in One Week for Illegally Entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of the Charleston area of Kanawha County, West Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Brandon L. Atwood, 33, of Olney, Illinois, was recently sentenced to 97 months in federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Steven D. Weinhoeft, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Atwood had previously pleaded guilty to three counts of a federal indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that ALEXANDRU-NICUSOR NITA, age 27, a Romanian national, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. On August 9, 2018, Nita’s co-conspirator, DANIELA-STEFANI IANEV, age 31, also a Romanian national, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. As a result of their convictions, both NITA and IANEV face significant terms of imprisonment, fines, and periods of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who robbed a bank in the Southern Highlands area after escaping from a Bureau of Prisons facility in Arizona was sentenced today to 125 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider Michael Faulkender to be Treasury Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Elizabeth Darling to be Health and Human Services (HHS) Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A senior leader of the Aryan Circle (AC) and a subordinate gang member pleaded guilty today and yesterday to being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder, announced Assistant Attorney General Bryan A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Fire behavior was moderate on the Howe Ridge Fire on Tuesday, as fuels dried out after Monday’s cool temperatures and rain. Fuels will continue to dry out in today’s predicted temperatures and fire behavior will likely increase in the afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former lieutenant with the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) was indicted today in federal court in Boston in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Dominic C. Garcia, 28, of Las Cruces, with violating the federal firearms laws by being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia was remanded into custody pending trial, which has yet to be scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis S. Pethley, 61, McFarland, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to five years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. This term of imprisonment will be followed by a ten-year period of supervised release. Pethley pleaded guilty to this charge on May 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A superseding indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh against Kevin Livsey for committing drug trafficking and firearm crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GERARD BROWN, also known as “Goldie," 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 100 months of imprisonment, followed by five years supervised release, for his role in a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who admitted to using file sharing applications to receive more than 600 images of toddlers and children engaged in sexually explicit conduct was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Shade Workman Charged with Lying to Federal Agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2018
News Release: Security Guard Shot During Inside-Job Robbery.
