News from July 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - On July 18, The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District responded to a wildland fire on the side of Highway 95, approximately 20 miles north of Orovada, Nevada. The Flat Creek Fire was actually several small fires started by a vehicle tire failure that eventually converged due...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Tafari Riley, of Bala Cynwyd, was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for bribing two U.S. mail carriers to deliver packages containing marijuana to various locations in West Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Lindsborg, Kansas man who traveled to the Philippines and had sex with minor females there pleaded guilty to three counts of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal judge has found Neil Andre Butler (46, Jacksonville) guilty of four counts of possessing and passing fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks. Butler faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of Crown Financial Services has entered a guilty plea to aiding and assisting in preparing false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Jemez Springs - As part of managing the lightning-caused Hidden Valley Fire by reducing fuel loads in the area, fire crews will continue implementing firing operations today. Resources on scene include one hotshot crew, three type 2 IA crews, one fire use module, one rapid extraction module, and three engines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Harli Wells, 29, of Hermon, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute heroin, fentanyl and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK, 6PM AKDT - The National Park Service (NPS) received a relayed radio call from the cruise ship Island Princess at 1pm today reporting an aircraft down in front of the Grand Pacific Glacier at the head of Glacier Bay’s Tarr Inlet. Park rangers responded to the scene and contacted the...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next Tuesday to review the U.S. Coast Guard’s integration of their acquisition, manpower, and maintenance plans with their mission needs to ensure the Service has the equipment, talent, and manpower necessary to accomplish its critical missions for the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - On July 19, 2018, District Court Judge Wilma Lewis sentenced Maurice Doyle, age 27, of St. Croix, to time served of 19 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today. Judge Lewis also sentenced Doyle to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a $1,000.00 fine and a special assessment of $100.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich has sentenced Reginald Hollie a/k/a Reginald Bedford (35, Tampa) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The court also ordered Hollie to forfeit the firearm that was used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that James Jacob Parrish, Jr., age 36, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sentenced in federal court to 105 months imprisonment with 3 years of supervised release to follow. Parrish plead guilty last November to being a felon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: A 35-year-old resident of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in prison for Abusive Sexual Contact, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Twenty-one members of a massive India-based fraud and money laundering conspiracy that defrauded thousands of U.S. residents of hundreds of millions of dollars were sentenced this week to terms of imprisonment up to 20 years. Three other conspirators were sentenced earlier this year for laundering...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kevin Ashley Wells, a/k/a "Big 50," 37, of Philadelphia, pled guilty today before U.S. Chief District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Thomas M. Annello, Acting Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: DTO Imported Large Quantities of Heroin, Methamphetamine and Cocaine from Mexico and Distributed the Drugs in New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, yesterday, a federal jury in Anchorage convicted Danny Ray Lowe, 49, of two counts of attempted sexual trafficking of a minor, and two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: JULIO GASCA-NIETO, 30, of Denver, Colorado was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on July 19, 2018 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and distribution of methamphetamine. Gasca-Nieto was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received one hundred twenty months of imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a man from Singer pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbing a DeQuincy bank of nearly $16,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An Abington man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to robbing three Greater Boston-area banks.
