News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Russell Cherry, 51, of Anchorage, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason, to serve four years in federal prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release, after previously pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Cherry worked as a neuropsychologist treating children in Anchorage until he was indicted in June 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A Louisville, Colorado man was sentenced this week by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 64 months in federal prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips announced. The defendant, Tristan Monroe Eerebout, age 41, was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the conclusion of the sentencing hearing.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) nationally expects to screen a record number of people during the 2018 Thanksgiving season. TSA projects it will screen 25 million travelers between Friday, November 16 and Monday, Nov. 26, making it one of TSA’s busiest Thanksgivings on record. This represents a 5 percent increase compared to this same period last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
Release: MORGANTOWN, WV – Today, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Steven Winberg announced that Brian J. Anderson, Ph.D. will be the new director of DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), effective Nov. 11, 2018. Anderson comes to NETL from West Virginia University ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - A twenty-three count indictment charging 18 members and associates of a Selma-based street gang known as the “MLK Gang" with narcotics conspiracy and firearms offenses was unsealed yesterday, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama.
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: Greenbelt, Maryland - Kevin Alexis Hernandez-Guevara, aka “Stop," age 22, a citizen of El Salvador illegally residing in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to a federal charge relating to his participation in a racketeering enterprise in furtherance of the activities of the gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - On April 13, 2018, the Dayton, Ohio Drug Enforcement Administration Office contacted the Cheyenne Resident Office regarding a vehicle traveling through Wyoming from California, suspected of transporting a large quantity of narcotics. DEA's Cheyenne Resident Office, working with state...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey S. Berman, announced that James Rosemond, aka “Jimmy the Henchman," was sentenced today to life plus 30 years in prison for ordering the murder of Lowell Fletcher, aka “Lodi Mack." A jury convicted Rosemond of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and firearms offenses following a nine-day retrial before U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who sentenced Rosemond.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the November 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Derek Boprey, age 31, of Ravena, New York, pled guilty today to distributing child pornography via an encrypted messaging application on his phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy McCluskey, 61, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer to conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: HILO, HI, - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director for Hawaii, American Samoa and the Western Pacific Gigi Jones today announced housing payment relief for homeowners in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) who were affected by Super Typhoon Yutu.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Lukeen Gerald, 30, of Philadelphia, PA, was found guilty today by a jury of seven counts of Hobbs Act robbery, six counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence, one count of discharging a firearm during a crime of violence, and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that STEVEN RE, age 42, of Florida, pleaded guilty to Counts 1 and 2 of the Indictment, which charged him with possession of stolen firearms, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(j) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, VI - Bruce McIntosh, 55, of St. Croix, was sentenced in the District Court on November 9, 2018, on the charge of Distribution of Cocaine, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph joined Brigadier General Patrick D. Frank, the Commanding General of the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, at Fort Polk’s Veterans Day Ceremony on November 8, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2018
News Release: Entrance to Lassen Volcanic National Park and all National Park Service sites is free November 11 in celebration of Veterans Day. This marks the last free entrance day in 2018.
