News from June 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after visiting border facilities near Brownsville Texas today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Independence Police Department Sergeant Graduates From the FBI National Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jennifer Rael, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., made her initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kirtan Khalsa in federal court this morning on a criminal complaint charging her with aiding and abetting armed bank robbery, and using a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Rael remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for tomorrow morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Joseph King, age 25, of Hagerstown, Maryland today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin and furanyl fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury to an individual who suffered two overdoses and died after using the drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Yousef Goba, 44, of Yemen, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to making extortionate threats to harm and kidnap a minor. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced today that Jake C. Files, age 46, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Files was also ordered to pay $83,903.77...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: INTERNTIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park maintenance crews will begin a multi-year project this summer to improve the popular Ellsworth Rock Gardens Visitor Destination. The site will remain open to public visitation throughout the construction. The park encourages visitors to watch for equipment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to 24 months in federal prison for robbing a health club, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement thanking the U.S. Supreme Court for agreeing to hear, for the second time, the case of John Sturgeon, an Alaskan who sued the National Park Service after being forced off of the Nation River in 2007 for using a hovercraft to hunt moose, as he had been doing for decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Romeo Lucas-Lopez, a/k/a “Romeo Lopez," of Upper Darby, PA, was charged by indictment with illegal reentry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Last week, Jonathan Frank Davis, 38, of Los Angeles, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 78 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by a five year term of supervised release. Davis had previously pleaded guilty to transportation of individuals to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Sanjay Nelson, 25, of Chinle, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for recklessly killing a man on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation. Nelson had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Washington - On June 7, 2018, Nebraska Livestock Sales of Tecumseh, LLC, doing business as Tecumseh Livestock Auction (Tecumseh) in Tecumseh, Nebraska, waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $3,000 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Defendants Sought to Disguise the Extorted Funds as a Charitable Donation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Multi-jurisdictional Investigation Dismantled Methamphetamine Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant United States Attorney Michelle Baeppler and Victim/Witness Specialist Darla Pendergrass were one of 162 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys Director James Crowell, IV at the 34th Director’s Awards Ceremony Friday in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Used Guns to Facilitate His Drug Sales.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: Following an interagency investigation by Special Agents with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cherokee Indian Police Department, a second man will serve time in prison for his role in a 2015 homicide within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Johnathan Hill, age 25, was recently sentenced to 48 months incarceration followed by two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of New Waterford, Ohio, has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of willfully injuring or committing depredation against any property of the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2018
News Release: ABingdon, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced today that Grandy Nester, 33, of Pilot Mountain, N.C., was sentenced last week in the United States District Court in Abingdon as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an investigation conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and local law enforcement in Virginia and North Carolina.
