News from November 2018
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: (BUFFALO, Wyo.) - The Bureau of Land Management has opened a public comment period as part of the process to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and Resource Management Plan amendment for the 2015 Buffalo Field Office Approved Resource Management Plan in response to a United States Montana District court opinion and order pertinent to “Western Organization of Resource Councils, et al vs BLM."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Edwin Willis, 44, of Corbin, Kentucky, was sentenced to 300 months (25 years) in federal prison, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug trafficking offense. Willis has three prior felony drug convictions and, as a result, qualified for career offender status and an enhanced sentence under federal law.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: (MALTA, Mont.) - The public is invited to an open house at the recently remodeled Bureau of Land Management Malta Field Office on December 6 from 4-6 p.m. Please join us for light refreshments and a visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Fourteen Arrests Made in Coordinated Takedown by Federal and State Law Enforcement; One Defendant At Large.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on Nov. 26, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Dontray Johnson, a/k/a “Gambino," “Bino," and “Tray," age 33, of Baltimore, Maryland, on Nov. 27, 2018, to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering and drug conspiracies related ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 27, 2018, Kevonte Deoblo Kirk, age 23, of Davenport, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 30 months in prison, following his guilty plea to a Felon in Possession of a Firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum. Kirk was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term and pay $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Experimental atomic clocks at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved three new performance records, now ticking precisely enough to not only improve timekeeping and navigation, but also detect faint signals from gravity, the early universe and perhaps even dark matter.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua A. Parker, of Baker, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger today sentenced Daniel Dwain Lundeby (42, Jacksonville Beach) to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Lundeby had pleaded guilty on March 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Conspiracy Included 10 Robberies in KC, Independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The five leaders and eight other co-conspirators have been sentenced for their roles in one of the largest synthetic cannabinoids distribution networks in the United States, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick. The sentences ranged from 140 months in federal prison for a leader to probation for an hourly wage clerk who sold the drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - One of three brothers who admitted to running a large scale heroin and cocaine trafficking operation in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DAVID HANSON, age 61, from Abita Springs, Louisiana, and CLIFFORD “SKIP" KEEN, age 50, from Covington, Louisiana, were charged today in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and soliciting a bribe, in violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 371, for their roles in the privatization of a work release program in Slidell, Louisiana in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Gino Washington, 26, of Pearl, Mississippi, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves to 20 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He was also required to forfeit the firearm and pay a $1,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a hearing on progress in the global fight to end modern slavery. The hearing featured testimony from Ambassador John Richmond, heard of the State Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Last of Ten Defendants Sentenced in Scheme That Involved Installing Card- Skimming Devices in Gas-Pumps, Creating Cloned Credit Cards Using Captured Account Numbers, and Using Cloned Cards to Bulk-Buy Prepaid Cards at Meijer Branches Throughout the Greater Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing Areas.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A North Texas man was indicted last week on child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger today sentenced Daniel Dwain Lundeby (42, Jacksonville Beach) to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Lundeby had pleaded guilty on March 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Fred Swan, Jr., 30, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of Hobbs Act Robbery, Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, was sentenced to serve 192 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
