News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Cedric Winfield, 23, of Clinton, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge William H. Barbour, Jr. to carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, yesterday, a federal jury in Anchorage convicted Tyler Chance Bateman, 28, of Anchorage, of eight counts of threatening interstate communications, for using the internet to threaten people in Anchorage. The victims included Bateman’s parents, two Anchorage Police Department officers and their families, and shoppers at a local business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Credit Card Fraud Continued from Jail.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. ‒ Beginning Oct. 26, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management, in partnership with the San Juan Soil and Water Conservation District, will treat up to approximately 9,803 acres of sagebrush. Treatments will occur on BLM, state and private lands within San Juan and Rio Arriba counties in northwestern New Mexico where sagebrush densities have surpassed historic, naturally-occurring levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jay Neal, 40, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of eight counts including conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more heroin, possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, heroin, maintaining a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging ELIMAS MENDEZ-ROBLERO, age 33, of Mexico, with illegal reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade State Attorney, Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a second superseding indictment Thursday in the Aaron Michael Shamo case. The 13-count indictment alleges a count of aiding and abetting the distribution of a controlled substance (fentanyl) resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daquan Rice, age 23, of Syracuse, was sentenced today to 140 months in prison, to be followed by a 3-year term of supervised release, in connection with his prior guilty plea to charges involving a years-long credit card cloning operation, announced United States Attorney Grant C.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) apprehended an unlawfully present Mexican national Friday in Forsyth County, North Carolina, who is a Maryland fugitive wanted on multiple state charges of rape and sexual assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury has found Joseph Deleon (29, Mount Dora) guilty of robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Deleon faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled. He was indicted on July 11, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 16, 2018, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a six-count indictment against Christina Erin Myers, 36, of Lenoir City, Tennessee, charging her with wire fraud and money laundering. Myers appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah Poplin in U.S. District Court on Oct. 18, 2018, and pleaded not guilty to the charges included in the indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Yellowstone hosted 724,454 visits in September 2018. This is approximately a 13 percent increase from September 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: California Resident Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Defraud the United States of Over $9 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that, yesterday, a federal jury in Anchorage convicted Tyler Chance Bateman, 28, of Anchorage, of eight counts of threatening interstate communications, for using the internet to threaten people in Anchorage. The victims included Bateman’s parents, two Anchorage Police Department officers and their families, and shoppers at a local business.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: This Saturday, Oct. 20, the doors formally open to the Dr. James Buckner Luckie Study Center at Joshua Tree National Park. The study center was made possible through a generous donation of Susan Luckie Riley’s family home with the purpose of continuing Ms. Luckie’s life long study of desert ecology...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Dr. Felmor Agatep (59, Jacksonville) pleaded guilty today to theft of government property for receiving kickbacks related to a federal health care benefit program. Agatep faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - Due to subsiding fire danger, the Bureau of Land Management is removing the Stage 1 fire restrictions for Goshen County on Oct. 18, 2018. This decision was reached in coordination with our county partners. Partnerships and inclusion are vital to managing sustainable, working public lands managed by the BLM.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: A mild winter could be in store for much of the United States this winter according to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. In the U.S. Winter Outlook for December through February, above-average temperatures are most likely across the northern and western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.
