News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Anthony Joseph Safiotti, 35, of St. Lucie County, was convicted by a federal jury yesterday of aiding and abetting false statements to unlawfully purchase a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(a)(6) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Marcos Rodriguez Lopez, 34, a Mexican citizen located in Gaston, South Carolina, was sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and DEA New York Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall announced today that a federal jury has convicted Dontrell Wise, 32, of Buffalo, N.Y., of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, fentanyl, cocaine, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JACOB HIGGINBOTHAM, age 24, of Houma, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced HIGGINBOTHAM to 10 years’ incarceration and 5 years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Previously Convicted of Drug Trafficking With a Gun in 2000 and also for Possessing a Weapon While in Federal Prison in 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that MARVIN ARMSTRONG, age 32, of New Orleans, LA, has pleaded guilty to two counts of heroin related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Making sure that victims of federal crimes are treated with compassion, fairness and respect.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program has awarded more than $8.3 million in grants and cooperative agreements, supporting conservation projects and scientific studies in seven U.S. states and territories, as well as international projects in the Caribbean and Micronesia. Grant award recipients are also providing more than $5.2 million in matching support for these critical projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The captain of the duck boat that sank at Table Rock Lake last summer, resulting in the deaths of 17 people, was indicted by a federal grand jury today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - The Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, and Coeur Rochester Mine are partnering together and looking for volunteers to help on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., to plant native sage brush seedlings to restore the burned area affected by the 2017 Limerick Canyon Fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jason Blackwood, 46, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence in relation to a June 2016, armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Keith Kruskall, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, 42-year-old Dennis Edward Stephen, pleaded guilty in federal court to robbing multiple San Antonio banks and stealing approximately $479,000, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and San Antonio Police Chief William McManus.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a 16-count superseding indictment against Josh Small, 51, of Princeton, West Virginia, and Joni Amber Johnson, 35, of Princeton, West Virginia, charging them with kidnapping, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, using firearms...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TX - On the morning of November 7, 2018, Big Bend National Park received reports that Edward Lowe, 69, of Dallas, TX, had sustained a fatal fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A 36-year-old resident of Grove has pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered destructive device discovered at a residence in Afton, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - On November 6, 2018, Richard John Massey, age 68, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of sex trafficking of a minor, coercion and enticement of a minor, and traveling in interstate commerce to facilitate prostitution...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska - The National Park Service intends to award up to four concession contracts to provide glacier landing air taxi and glacier landing air tour services to the public within Denali National Park and Preserve. The proposed contracts will have a term of Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2029. The solicitation, selection, and award of the concession contract will be conducted pursuant to 36 Code of Federal Regulations Part 51.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Andrew May, 46, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Rosemary Marquez. May had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shania Shroulote, 25, an enrolled member of the Acoma Pueblo who resides in San Fidel, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to three years of probation for her conviction on a misdemeanor child abuse charge.
