News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Lucas MacLean, 27, formerly of Unity, was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison for federal firearms crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: Couple sold heroin together for over a year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS-U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced today that Billings resident Robert John Bigback was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison and five years of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today filed a Statement of Interest in U.S. District Court in South Carolina supporting a church’s claim that the Town of Edisto Beach violated its rights under the First Amendment when the town barred it from renting space at the Town’s Civic Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Elder Jose Cruz-Arteaga, 45, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty in federal court to illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Keith R. Hudson, 71, of Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced to six months in federal prison and six months of home confinement for receiving $197,237 in benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after falsely claiming to be a veteran.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: On Nov. 16, 2018, Peter Vincent Cruz, a resident of Washington State and Alaska, pleaded guilty to money laundering charges, stemming from his decision to launder hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud proceeds from online romance and business email compromise (“BEC") scams, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - United States Attorney Alex G. Tse congratulated Superior Court Judges Ioana Petrou and Tracie L. Brown on their respective selections by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. for appointments to First District Court of Appeal. Both selectees worked for the Office of the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man convicted of False Statement was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Tennessee man was sentenced Tuesday to eight years in prison for receiving sexually explicit images from a Louisiana minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Cavan in Billings. Indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: Olympic National Park Acting Superintendent Lee Taylor and National Park Service staff will host an informal community reception at the Amanda Park Library from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced MICHAEL LEE DRAKE, 52, of Nashville, North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 8 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross signed a Memorandum of Agreement last week that will ensure that the Presidential Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West is implemented as quickly and smoothly as possible. To that...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation finalized an Environmental Assessment and signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed approval of the one-time transfer of up to 100 acre-feet of Central Valley Project water from Orange Cove Irrigation District to Table Mountain Rancheria for existing municipal purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joseph Waschko, age 37, of Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 20, 2018, for unlawfully importing controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Michael Bean, 33, of Loudon, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: DENVER - Dashae Eugene Armstrong, age 23, of Denver, appeared in U.S. District Court this morning to be advised of firearm charges pending against him and his rights following a deadly shooting between rival gangs on Nov. 19, 2018, in downtown Denver, U.S. Attorney Jason R. Dunn, ATF Denver Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: FBI Warns of Cyber Scammers Targeting Holiday Shoppers.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2018
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - The Bureau of Reclamation is in the process of draining water from Avalon Reservoir so the Carlsbad Irrigation District can conduct required maintenance on the dam.
