News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy and two alleged cohorts are scheduled to make their first court appearances this afternoon after they were arrested Thursday on federal drug distribution charges that allege they stole 600 pounds of marijuana and $100,000 in cash during an armed robbery at a downtown Los Angeles warehouse by falsely portraying themselves as law enforcement officers executing a search warrant.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: (Stillwater, N.Y) - Saratoga National Historical Park proudly announces a new partnership with The American Battlefield Trust and American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR) to bring veterans together and utilize their unique skillsets to reveal buried secrets of American Revolutionary War history.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted a Camden County police officer for multiple offenses arising from an assault on the streets of Camden, New Jersey, United States Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted a Camden County police officer for multiple offenses arising from an assault on the streets of Camden, New Jersey, United States Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Indianapolis-United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that an Indianapolis man was sentenced in federal court to 126 months (over 10 years) for his role in a 2015 shooting near the federal courthouse. Marcus Fennell, 26, was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Officer Was Previously Convicted of Related Obstruction Offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2019 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists, researchers, and policymakers from eligible countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - “Jeff Sessions served as our nation’s 84th Attorney General with tremendous dignity, dedication, and distinction. He advanced the Administration’s priorities with strong leadership and purposeful expectations. He reinvigorated and motivated federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: A Seattle man who distributed narcotics, including deadly fentanyl analogues imported from China, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 12 years in prison announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. GREGORY L. SMITH, 34, was arrested in August 2017, following an investigation that traced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three Northern California residents were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. for crimes relating to their involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Dexter Wright, 37, of Cincinnati was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison for selling a mix of heroin, fentanyl and carfentanil.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that JAMES RAIFORD, age 25, of New Orleans, was charged in a ten-count Indictment with Hobbs Act Robberies, an Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery, and Possession of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1951(a) and 924(c)(1)(a)(i).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: As the first Alabamian to serve as the Nation’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions won the respect and loyalty of prosecutors and law enforcement officers across the Country. He was extremely active and personally invested in the work of prosecutors in 93 U.S. Attorney’s Offices and at Main Justice in Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces the guilty plea and sentence of defendant Gregory Carl Kent for unlawfully possessing a firearm in violation of 18 United States Code 922(g)(1). Kent pled guilty to being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. INDIANAPOLIS-Disability rights advocates met recently to learn about new resources and to share information during the second Disability Rights Roundtable convened by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana. The U.S. Attorney’s office convened the first...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On November 6, 2018, following a two-day trial, a jury found Ryan Nicholas Haynes, age 28, of West Des Moines, Iowa, guilty of one count of felon in possession of a firearm. Sentencing before United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose will be set at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Florence, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Derrick Bernard Cunningham, 48, of Gray Court, South Carolina, pled guilty in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Parker, 33, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by complaint with unlawful possession of a machinegun, and unlawful possession of a firearm which is not registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - A federal grand jury recently returned a five-count indictment charging Donovan J. Barker, age 59, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with aiding and abetting a conspiracy to distribute tramadol and carisoprodol, international money laundering, unlawful money transmitting, and possession of tramadol. On Oct. 25, 2018, Barker made his initial appearance in court and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Patrick Bruce Reachard, age 53, a resident of Spring Grove, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 200 months’ imprisonment in a child pornography case. On...
