News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 1, 2018, Francisco Guerra-Franco, 21, of Los Lunas, NM, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to 33 months’ prison followed by three years’ supervision. Guerra-Franco had previously pleaded guilty to two charges: facilitation to smuggle goods from the United States and false statements to a federal agent.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District Office is making Christmas tree-cutting permits available to the public. Only pinyon pine, juniper and white fir may be harvested. The cutting of all other trees is prohibited.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson announced that New Jersey residents turned in 12,749 pounds or 6.3 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions during DEA’s 16th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on October 27. Nationally, more than 900,000 pounds of prescription medications were collected at nearly 6,000 sites across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Alleged that defendant conspired with affiliates of the People’s Liberation Army.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney SHAWN N. ANDERSON announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Marivic P. David will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election. AUSA David has been...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced the appointment of a 15-member commission to coordinate the commemoration of the 400-year anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the English colonies in 1619.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - A Memphis, Tennessee man has pled guilty to federal firearms charges relating to his role in a shooting that occurred inside the Lyric Theater in Oxford, Mississippi on April 27, 2018. Desmond Bowen pleaded guilty yesterday to being a felon in possession of ammunition during the incident. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox has announced that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Nicole Dana will lead the efforts of her office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jeffrey Perry (56, Ruskin) has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. Perry faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: MIAMI - With the robust participation of Americans nationwide, DEA and its law enforcement partners have now surpassed its 10 million pound goal and collected nearly 11 million pounds of unused, unwanted or expired prescription medications over the course of 16 successful DEA National Prescription Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox has announced that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Nicole Dana will lead the efforts of her office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Beau K.C. Jones, 34, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to serve 100 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, announced that JOSE MANUEL SANTOS, 36, of Bridgeport, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with transfer of obscene materials to a minor, and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 2, a federal indictment against three Puerto Rican men was unsealed after their arrest for their roles in a conspiracy to provide pirated DISH Network (DISH) services to thousands of Puerto Ricans, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal...
By State Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A local businessman pleaded guilty today to charges of orchestrating a multi-year investment fraud scheme causing at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses to dozens of victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Terrell Plummer Admits Killing McKenzie Elliott and Tyrone Jamison Admits Supplying the Gun Used in the Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jeffrey Perry (56, Ruskin) has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. Perry faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Larceny (Aiding and Abetting) and Failure to Appear was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
