News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the District of Western Tennessee, D. Michael Dunavant announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: DALLAS - Noel Guest, 62, of Mabank, Texas, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 240 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in November 2016 to transportation and shipment of child pornography, announced Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced that on June 1, 2018, United States District Court Judge J.P. Stadtmueller sentenced Edy Matute to 41 months in prison for being an illegal alien in possession of firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(5)(A) & 924(a)(2). Matute also received a sentencing enhancement for possessing the firearms in connection with drug trafficking.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The BLM California Desert District has released an Environmental Assessment along with a Finding of No Significant Impact to amend an existing right-of-way allowing Pacific Gas and Electric to conduct required testing and maintenance activities for PG&E natural gas pipelines in San Bernardino County, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates 5 Prosecutors to Eastern District of North Carolina to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: On 500th Day of Trump Administration, Attorney General Sessions Announces 311 New Assistant United States Attorney Positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Defendant Arrested After Investigation Into Open Drug Market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Today in federal court, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon ordered Dyno Nobel, Inc., the owner of a urea plant near St. Helens, Oregon, to pay $250,000 for violating section 103(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), following a series of large-scale ammonia discharges in July and August 2015. Dyno Nobel will also serve a two-year term of probation for the class-E felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: On the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Duane A. Evans announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nickey Lynn Anderson, age 35, of Idabel, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Jose Martin Garcia-Escobar (a.k.a. Jose Garcia), age 39, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced before South Bend District Court Robert L. Miller, Jr for illegally re-entering the U.S. after being deported and after being convicted of felony offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Christopher Chandonnais, 26, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to oxycodone trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT EPPS, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the sexual exploitation of a child and to illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon for the District of South Carolina announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Five Florida residents have admitted to their involvement with a gas station skimming fraud scheme, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in AUSAs in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime, Civil Enforcement, and Immigration Crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Everitt Aaron Jameson, 26, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Five men have been charged in New Orleans with crimes related to illegally exporting birds protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) from the United States to Taiwan. William McGinness, 59, of Buena Park, California; Paul Tallman, 55, of Destreham, Louisiana;...
