News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A former Webb County Commissioner and a former city councilman have entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Braley announced today along with FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Defendants charged with trafficking, face not less than 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE -A Dominican national in the United States illegally, who admitted to using several alias and who was previously convicted and incarcerated in federal and state prisons on drug trafficking charges, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, and being an alien and a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -Roland J. Bourgeois, Jr., 55, of New Orleans, LA, appeared yesterday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon and pleaded guilty to charges that, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he shot at three young African-American men because of their race as the men attempted to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that a federal grand jury has returned a Superseding Indictment charging STEPHEN CONDON PETERS, 45, of Raleigh, North Carolina, with four additional charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Bourgeois shot at three young African-American men fleeing Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment today against Pedro Gavino, 23, and his father, Pedro Gavino-Robles, 58, both of Orosi, charging them with four felony counts of animal cruelty violations relating to cockfighting, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - A Benton, Kentucky pharmacist was charged by a federal grand jury indictment for stealing medications, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS -- The Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas Field Office is seeking public comments on a proposed amendment to the 1998 Resource Management Plan and draft environmental assessment for the Dry Lake East Designated Leasing Area (DLA.) The proposed DLA is about 10 miles northeast of Las Vegas and east of the existing Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone. If approved, the DLA would allow BLM to conduct a competitive lease auction for photovoltaic solar development.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice charged the largest number of violent crime and firearm defendants in its history in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted felon has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded semi-automatic handgun in a west suburb of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Clark Calloway, 39, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to possession of a firearm and to acquiring that firearm with the intent to commit assault, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - After deliberating for fewer than five hours, a federal jury today convicted Dawn J. Bennett, age 56, of Chevy Chase, Maryland, on all 17 federal charges including conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and making false statements on a loan application. Bennett remains detained pending sentencing. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis has not yet scheduled a date for sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted for robbing five banks in August and September.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: In El Paso today, a federal judge sentenced 34-year-old U.S. Army Sergeant Ron Mitchell Dunbar to 60 years in federal prison followed by lifetime of supervised release for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letter to World Resources Institute (WRI) President Andrew Steer, renewing their request for information regarding the WRI’s relationship with the Chinese government. This letter follows up on the Committee’s Sept. 5 letter as part of an ongoing investigation.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2018 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of nine individuals to serve on the Hass Avocado Board.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 17, 2018 — Farmers and ranchers in seven additional Georgia counties are now available for assistance to address damage to working lands and livestock mortality because of Hurricane Michael through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in Trenton, New Jersey convicted four defendants yesterday of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act. The jury deliberated six hours following a nearly four-week long trial before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan. The four defendants convicted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Marq Perez, 26, was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for burning down the Victoria Islamic Center on Jan. 28, 2017. Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick for the Southern ...
