News published on Federal Newswire in December 2018

News from December 2018


New VIDEO: Trafficker with Massive Network Leads Law Enforcement on Wild Car Chase

News Release: Grand Prairie PD Chases Drug Trafficker Who Fled From Undercover Buy.


Oak Ridge’s UCOR Earns 96 Percent of Available Fee for Second Half of FY18

News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM recently for its performance from April 1, 2018 to Sept. 30, 2018, amounting to 96 percent of the total fee available.


Twelve Indicted for Interstate Cocaine Conspiracy

News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing of an indictment charging twelve people with crimes related to the distribution of cocaine. The indictment was returned on November 28 by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison and was unsealed yesterday.


News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Elmer Alexander Lopez, a member of the Centrales Locos Salvatruchas clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 25 years’ imprisonment.


News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Tucson, Arizona, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, and Possession With Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance, was sentenced on Dec. 10, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.


Two-Time Drug Felon Sentenced to 120 Months for Role in Gun Store Burglary

News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Omar DeJesus, age 32, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 120 months in prison for transporting, storing, and possessing firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.


York Man Sentenced To 50 Months’ Imprisonment For Being A Convicted Felon In Possession Of Ammunition

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 17, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo sentenced Kevin O’Neal Thomas, age 33, of York, Pennsylvania, to 50 months’ imprisonment for possession of ammunition.


Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument  closed on Christmas, New Year’s Day, and Jan. 6

News Release: In keeping with the administration’s priorities of being good neighbors and respecting the ties that native and traditional communities have to public lands, the Bureau of Land Management is announcing that the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument will be closed on Dec. 24, Christmas Day, Jan. 1, and Jan. 6. The closures allow for the celebration of Christmas and New Year’s Day, but also for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural observances and routine BLM maintenance.


News Release: MONTICELLO, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management will conduct a number of prescribed fires on public lands in San Juan County during the coming fall and winter months. These prescribed burns help keep public landscapes healthy and productive by reducing the wildfire risk for adjacent communities, restoring ecosystem health and enhancing wildlife habitat.


ICE removes 36 Cambodian nationals

News Release: On Monday, December 17th, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) ICE Air Operations (IAO) flight departed El Paso, Texas carrying 36 Cambodian nationals, of whom 34 are criminals, to their home country of Cambodia in accordance with their final orders of removal.


Repeat Violent Felon With 31 Prior Arrests Sentenced To 22 Years On Meth, Gun Charges

News Release: COLUMBUS - A repeat felon with 31 prior arrests and three prior felony convictions was sentenced Tuesday in federal court on drug and gun charges, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Clint Walker, 35 of Columbus, GA was sentenced to 264 months...


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - What does an assortment of spaghetti, scotch tape, marshmallows, and lots of recycled soda cans have in common?


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hawthorne, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud financial institutions and others of more than $6 million, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, age 54, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to three counts of failing to file individual federal tax returns.


News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - More than 120 students recently took part in an interactive learning space hosted by EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) deactivation and remediation contractor at this year’s “STEM 4 Girls" event in Paducah.


News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Locos Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boson for his role in a 2014 murder.


News Release: FBI Warns of Chinese Law Enforcement Impersonation Scam.


News Release: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Announces Entrance Fee-Free Days for 2019.


News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Special Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration this morning arrested an Orange County doctor on federal charges that allege he illegally distributed opioid and other powerful narcotics by writing prescriptions for “patients" without medical examinations and to at least...


News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man who worked for Signal Peak Energy, a Montana coal mining company, admitted in federal court today to an embezzlement scheme that defrauded companies of more than $20 million and to lying to investigators about a false abduction, U.S. Attorney Kurt G. Alme said.