News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston on charges of racketeering conspiracy involving murder.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: FBI Assisting in Search for Missing Teenager in Lumberton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -Federal defendant Paul Girard was apprehended early on Sunday morning on St. Croix by federal and local law enforcement agents. A team comprised of Deputy United States Marshals, DEA, FBI, ATF, and VIPD agents and officers located and arrested Girard without incident. Girard, who recently...

By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: The 48th annual Fiesta at Tumacácori National Historical Park will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, and 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Admission is free. La Fiesta de Tumacácori is a celebration of all the cultures which have lived in and influenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jim A. Meron, 54, of Granite Bay, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud related to a government-procurement fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: Gary Linder, Jr., a TSA employee, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to fifteen years in prison for enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and attempting to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Somers Point, New Jersey, woman has been charged with planning the assault of a North Attleboro, Massachusetts, man, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: When you think of our nation’s critical infrastructure, what comes to mind? Is it the structures that protect our physical borders? The wheels of industry that keep our economy in motion? The networks that keep our lines of communication open and energy flowing? Or maybe the roads and highways that take us to and from our jobs, our homes and other daily destinations?
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) on the development of transformational sensing capabilities for monitoring parameters associated with subsurface carbon dioxide (CO2) storage.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Irene Gonzalez will lead the efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: Charged with Conspiracy to Commit Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO).

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: James “Robert" Brown, Jr. Named Special Agent in Charge of the Louisville Field Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced its Election Day plans for the Nov. 6, 2018 general election. The Civil Rights Division will monitor compliance with the federal voting rights laws by deploying personnel to 35 jurisdictions in 19 states.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for his conviction on four federal offenses related to assistance he provided to a Mexican national with a criminal record to re-enter the United States and then lying to cover it up.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., man, Jaime Breckenridge, 34, of the 2200 Block of S. First Street, was sentenced today on charges of distribution and possession of child pornography, as announced by U.S. Attorney John C. Milhiser, Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Shadid...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD WILLIAMS, 58, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to bank fraud and identity theft offenses stemming from a mail theft and check cashing scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An employee of a Cambridge-based biopharmaceutical company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for engaging in an insider trading scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: Stephen Laycock Named Assistant Director of the Directorate of Intelligence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Keith Kruskall, New York Division, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Josue Vega, 37, of Kissimmee, Florida, pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years, and a $1,000,000 fine.