News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Adam L. Braverman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, responded today to a recent report reflecting that the number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI in 2017 increased approximately 17 percent nationwide and 15 percent in San Diego.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Charles Tan Will Serve 20 Years in Federal Prison for Causing the Straw Purchase of a Shotgun, Knowing it Would be Used to Murder His Father.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: WEAVERVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, along with the Bureau of Land Management and the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, released the draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study for the Trinity River Restoration Program’s proposed Chapman Ranch Phase A channel rehabilitation project in Trinity County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: More than 40 associates of the notorious Ghost Face Gangsters criminal street gang have been indicted on federal charges related to drug trafficking and firearms possession throughout eastern Georgia and beyond.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation proposed today to execute nine Central Valley Project interim renewal water service contracts on the American River Division and San Luis Unit contracts. Public comments are due by Jan. 18, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Anton James, Jr., 22, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Simon to 28 years imprisonment following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit racketeering activity for his role and participation in the Latin Kings street gang, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Mo., couple are among 13 defendants who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $62 million conspiracy to distribute more than 2,000 kilograms of cocaine, and a money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA - The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Pharmacy and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have reached an agreement settling alleged pharmacy violations in which the pharmacy will pay a $95,520 civil penalty and take other steps to ensure compliance with federal law and Drug Enforcement Administration regulations, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Anton James, Jr., 22, of Hammond, Indiana, was sentenced by Judge Simon to 28 years imprisonment following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit racketeering activity for his role and participation in the Latin Kings street gang, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Pennsylvania man was charged in federal court in Worcester today in connection with transporting stolen electronics across state lines. Defendant allegedly broke into Target stores in Easton and Westborough, Mass, and in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Khalil Smith a/k/a “Lil," 35, of Philadelphia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg to life plus 207 years’ imprisonment, to be served consecutively. Smith was found guilty by a jury in January 2017, of committing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lee’s Summit, Mo., couple are among 13 defendants who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a $62 million conspiracy to distribute more than 2,000 kilograms of cocaine, and a money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Also Had Role in Fraudulent $20,000 Home Rehabilitation Loan Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Barry Eugene Dragovich, of Cumberland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 36 months incarceration for a counterfeit charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of LANDON CONAN KINGBIRD, 34, to 46 months in prison for one count of domestic assault by a habitual offender. KINGBIRD, who pleaded guilty on March 26, 2018, was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2018, before Judge Joan N. Ericksen, in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
Release: TSA shares travel tips as Baltimore-area flyers prepare for Thanksgiving travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Alton Gore, also known as “A-Murder," the leader of the Outlaws street gang, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 15 years’ imprisonment following his April 6, 2018 guilty plea to assault in aid of racketeering and discharging a firearm in connection with a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: West Valley City, Utah -- The Bureau of Land Management West Desert Fire Zone has scheduled fuels management projects on approximately 23,500 acres of public land for fiscal year 2019. With over 7.7 million acres of land to manage in the BLM West Desert District, the fuels program is taking actions to reduce hazardous fuels and risks to human communities, as well as, improve land health by creating fire-resilient landscapes and restoring fire-adapted ecosystems.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Brian Glantz, 23, of Glenside, Pennsylvania, was charged on Saturday by complaint with one count of assault on an officer in the performance of official duties, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 111(a)(1), and the assimilated Commonwealth of Pennsylvania crime of aggravated assault on an officer in the performance of official duties, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 13 and 18 Pa.C.S. § 2702(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Julio Chantello Williams, 35, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to a total of 211 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, announced U. S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
