News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, of the Southern District of Alabama announces that five area merchants and an employee of one of the merchants were indicted for violations of Title 18 United States Code, Section 2342(a), trafficking in contraband cigarettes. They include, Thy Touch, a 45 year...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Donovan Young, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M, made his initial appearance this morning in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with carjacking and firearms offenses. Young remains in federal custody pending preliminary and detention hearings scheduled for tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that Andrew Wade Wyrrick, 24, of Owasso, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute marijuana and to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - As part of the Administration’s priority to sustainably develop America’s energy and natural resources, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released an environmental assessment for public review that evaluates a Lease-by-Application (LBA) for Peabody Energy Twentymile Coal, LLC’s, Foidel Creek Mine near Hayden, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Lewis Bennett, 41, a dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for killing his wife, Isabella Hellman, while on board a sailing vessel on the high seas.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a felony.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Construction of a second large-scale saltstone disposal unit (SDU) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) is progressing safely and on schedule.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Abdul Rasheed, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted after a jury trial of escaping from federal custody, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Benjamin Michael Tschirhart (35, Dallas, TX) to 11 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Scheme Leader to Serve Eight Years.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Mexican citizen pleaded guilty Monday to unlawfully driving himself and 10 other illegal aliens from Arizona to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: All three units, including Montezuma Castle in Camp Verde, Montezuma Well in Rimrock, and Tuzigoot in Clarkdale, will observe the following holiday hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - John Michael Martin, of Keyser, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - November 6, 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: Verdict Caps a Multi-Agency Investigation Resulting in 10 Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced today that ImmediaDent of Indiana, LLC (ImmediaDent), which operates nine dental care practices in Indiana, and Kansas based Samson Dental Partners, LLC (SDP), which provides administrative support services to ImmediaDent, have agreed...

By DOE Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers recently removed a former pump-and-treat system at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) site, allowing for continued cleanup progress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Pamela S. Hediger, 55, of Corvallis, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to one count each of attempting to evade or defeat taxes and engaging in monetary transactions with property derived from specified unlawful activity.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On November 5, 2018, Kenneth Richard Devore, a/k/a Kenneth Waters, 44, of Jonesborough, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Pamela L. Reeves to serve 96 months in federal prison. In July 2018, following a six-day trial, Devore was convicted by a federal jury of wire fraud, mail fraud, financial conflict of interest, theft of public money, and making false statements in matters within the jurisdiction of the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Lance Green, age 37, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute crack cocaine.