News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who wore a skeleton mask while disrupting traffic was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Donovan Gomez, 23, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced last Tuesday to 46 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Gomez was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye. Judge Nye also sentenced Gomez to three years supervised release after he is finished serving his prison term. Gomez was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 17, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: A South Euclid man was indicted for using a firearm to rob a bank in Painesville.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Robert Gallagher Sr., 50, of Northfield, pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements to obtain Social Security disability insurance benefits, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A former Columbia, Kentucky, woman was sentenced today by United States District Judge Greg Stivers to 121 months of imprisonment on charges of arson and insurance fraud. The arson, which completely destroyed the defendant’s rental home and was set by her then boyfriend in order to collect on a $50,000 rental insurance policy, killed a Columbia/Adair County Volunteer Firefighter who was fighting the fire.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the House passed H.R. 6651, bipartisan legislation which extends the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) - the most successful U.S. assistance program since the Marshall Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia remains resolute in fighting the opioid epidemic that has plagued communities throughout the United States. According to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, more than 140 Americans die daily from an opioid overdose, and...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Work is underway to equip the next generation of the workforce with technical skills to continue safe cleanup of the Hanford Site.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement on the Rules Committee’s decision to block floor debate on Rep. Ro Khanna’s war powers resolution on Yemen...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hawthorne man is due in court this afternoon after being arrested last week on federal charges that allege he intentionally drove his domestic partner and two severely autistic children off a pier into the ocean to collect proceeds on accidental death insurance policies he had purchased on their lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the filing of a felony information charging RODNEY KEITH THOMPSON, 53, with corruptly soliciting a bribe.[1] THOMPSON will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: A Pennsylvania man who was a fugitive was indicted on federal firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Arthur Raymond Prince, age 19, of Laurel Maryland, pleaded guilty today to aiding and abetting robbery involving controlled substances, and aiding and abetting the brandishing of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with the armed robberies of five pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: A Solon woman was indicted for laundering drug profits through her company through the purchase and sale of homes around Northeast Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Hassayampa Field Office invites public input on a proposed Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act lease of a 1,046-acre parcel of public land in the Vulture Mountains, for recreation development by Maricopa County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Richard Mel Phillips (36, Fruitland Park) has pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting threatening communications in interstate commerce. Phillips faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hawthorne man is due in court this afternoon after being arrested last week on federal charges that allege he intentionally drove his domestic partner and two severely autistic children off a pier into the ocean to collect proceeds on accidental death insurance policies he had purchased on their lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia remains resolute in fighting the opioid epidemic that has plagued communities throughout the United States. According to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, more than 140 Americans die daily from an opioid overdose, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mario Alfredo Morales Espinoza, age 25, and a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (63 days in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2018
News Release: Joe Lachowski has been selected to serve as the new chief ranger for Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site, the National Park Service announced today. The chief ranger serves as the senior law enforcement officer for Gettysburg and Eisenhower parks, responsible for the planning, direction, and execution of programs dealing with law enforcement and resource protection, emergency services and safety.
