News from November 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
Release: RICHMOND - A Richmond, Virginia, man was cited by police at Richmond International Airport on Sunday, November 18th after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a loaded handgun in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher Lloyd, of Detroit, Michigan, has admitted to an oxycodone distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Red Rock Canyon and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas will have limited hours on Thanksgiving Day, November 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Angelo McKenzie, 25, South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced November 15 by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to nine years in federal prison for his role in the armed robbery of a T-Mobile Cellular Store in Madison, Wisconsin. On September 6, 2018, McKenzie pleaded guilty to conspiring to rob a business and to brandishing a firearm during that robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: A Fort Worth Man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for the May 2018 Hulen Mall arson, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Join a ranger for a hike on Pinhook Bog’s often overlooked Upland Trail on Sunday, November 25 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The hike showcases the bog’s watershed as you hike a ravine, cross a bridge over a secluded pond that feeds the bog, and through stands of towering trees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Angelo McKenzie, 25, South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced November 15 by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to nine years in federal prison for his role in the armed robbery of a T-Mobile Cellular Store in Madison, Wisconsin. On September 6, 2018, McKenzie pleaded guilty to conspiring to rob a business and to brandishing a firearm during that robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Recently a limited addition Fitz's Root Beer had been sold at the Gateway Arch and Old Courthouse Gift Shops. The Gateway Arch has been incorporated into the Fitz's bottle lables and four-back carrier. The two icons trace there beginnings back to 1947 when the architectual competition was held that resulted in the creation of the Arch and Fitz's Root Beer was brewed that same year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Isaiah Green, 28, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 138,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to South Korea during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga. - More than 40 associates of the notorious Ghost Face Gangsters, a violent, white supremacist criminal street gang operated largely from inside prisons, have been indicted on federal charges related to drug trafficking and firearms possession throughout eastern Georgia and beyond.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Dear Administrator Verma: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing to examine waste, fraud, and abuse in the Medicaid program. I appreciate your commitment to policing Medicaid fraud and overpayments,[1] and I write to draw your attention to a recent state audit showing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: For Health Care Theft. HAMMOND - Twenty Seven Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters were each sentenced after guilty pleas to one count of health care theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. According to the documents filed in this case, 27 members of the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: More Than 3,200 Oxycodone Pills Taken in One Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Rio Puerco Field Office plans to conduct a prescribed burn on 75 acres of BLM-managed lands located approximately 13 miles south of Cuba, N.M. between Nov. 28 - Dec. 31, weather permitting. The burn is expected to take one day and will be conducted on the east side of Highway 550, with smoke visible from the highway and surrounding areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Valentino Gonzalez, 47, of Texas, a federal inmate in the United States Penitentiary in Yazoo City, Mississippi, was sentenced Friday, by Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to 170 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for two counts of assault, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
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: BOSTON - A corrections officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute facility in Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) was arrested today and charged in connection with conspiracy to smuggle Suboxone strips into the facility for an inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Larry Willis, 33, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, maintaining a drug involved premises, possessing firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking activities, and being a felon-in-possession of firearms and explosives, was sentenced to serve 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2018
News Release: Brecksville, Ohio - Thanks to more than 550 individuals, foundations and corporations in the Cleveland/Akron metropolitan area, the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park successfully raised $7 million dollars for Cuyahoga Valley National Park’s (CVNP) new Boston Mill Visitor Center.
