News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than six years in prison for illegally having ammunition stemming from a shootout last year in which two people were killed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Arsonist set fire to his residence, resulting in the death of Columbia/Adair County Volunteer Firefighter and Kentucky State Fire Marshal Charles Sparks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Artists are encouraged to apply for the 2019 Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residence Program. The application period will be open Nov. 1, 2018-Jan. 1, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Damiane Buehrer, 40, of Jonesville, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to serve 46 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for participating in a dog-fighting conspiracy between November 2016 and December 2017. The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge of the Western District of Michigan made the announcement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The National Park Service seeks comments from the public on a proposal to replace the Lewis River Bridge on the South Entrance Road in Yellowstone National Park. The bridge was built in 1960 and is in poor condition. If scheduled, the project could begin in 2020 and end in 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Harrisburg - United States Attorney David J. Freed announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Eric Pfisterer 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 Pfisterer...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Munhall, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and mail theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Former Philadelphia Police officer Eric Troy Snell, age 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Snell admitted that he conspired with former Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) Detective Jemell Rayam and others to sell heroin and cocaine seized by GTTF members. Snell pleaded guilty on the fourth day of his trial, which began on Oct. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Brooklyn Victim Left Homeless After She was Induced by Defendant to Stop Making Mortgage Payments and Give the Money to the Defendant Instead.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Nov. 1, 2018 - The Eden Fire, located in Eden Creek Grove of giant sequoias, south of Mineral King Road is now estimated to be approximately 5 acres. This lightning-caused fire started on October 4, 2018 during a series of thunderstorms that came through the area the first week of October.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox - along with four other U.S. Attorneys, from New York, California, Alabama and Massachusetts - to serve on the Justice Department’s China Initiative combating economic espionage by Beijing.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee received responses to questions posed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Port of Entry (POE) investigations, specifically the Office of Criminal Investigation’s (OCI) actions to combat the opioid crisis, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this Congress, the Energy and Commerce Committee received responses to questions posed to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding Port of Entry (POE) investigations, specifically the Office of Criminal Investigation’s (OCI) actions to combat the opioid crisis, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SHANNADE CLERMONT pled guilty to one felony count of wire fraud for making and attempting more than $20,000 in fraudulent charges using the stolen debit card information of a deceased man she had visited for a prostitution date. CLERMONT pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Ohio pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court to one year and a day in jail, and ordered to make $4,000 in restitution on his conviction of passing and uttering counterfeit money, obligations, or securities, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Defendant had four prior deportations to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Brandon Shea Marchand, age 44, of Omak, Washington, and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on September...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Laverne Schaeffer, age 46, of Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Oct. 30, 2018 before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Tony Leonard, a/k/a “Tom Cat," 49, of Lewiston, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
