News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Peter Mastin, age 26, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute at Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of a weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: “Growth in the domestic aquaculture industry holds great promise to create jobs and reduce our dependence on seafood imports," said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. “With such vast coastlines, there is no reason the United States should be importing billions of pounds of seafood each year."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Omar Bankhead, of Clinton, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to armed carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RASCELL LEGGETT, 31, Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal jury in Charlotte returned a guilty verdict late yesterday against Kimberlie L. Flemings, 49, of Mt. Holly, N.C. for her role in a $1 million fake car loan scheme, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. The jury found Flemings guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Jacob Anthony Lincoln, 28, of Moscow, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for obscene visual representations, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Lincoln pleaded guilty on March 19, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. Oct. 17, 2018 - The second season of road construction along a one mile section of the Generals Highway in Sequoia National Park will begin to wind down in the next month. Work on this segment has been extensive with rehabilitation or construction of new retaining walls, improved drainage, and new pullouts, among other improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New York man who was arrested in Mercer County, New Jersey, with more than a kilogram of the fentanyl precursor ANPP, and possessing more than two kilograms of heroin in his New York apartment, made his initial appearance in Trenton federal court, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Danny Ray VanZandt, 40, of Boise, was sentenced today to 300 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. A federal grand jury indicted VanZandt on May 15, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Anthony Fulton, 30, Warsaw, Indiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District William M. Conley to 30 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender. This prison term will be followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced today that the Northern District of Oklahoma increased prosecution of violent crime and firearms defendants by more than 100 percent in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 when compared to FY 2017. The increased prosecutions have shown promising results across Tulsa, with 36 fewer...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge James Hunt and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 42-count indictment charging 14 defendants with methamphetamine conspiracy. Named in the indictment are...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Michaeleen Rae Herron, 45, of Lolo, Montana, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft of public money, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Herron was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on May 15, 2018, and has remained in federal custody since her arrest on Sept. 19, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Dennis Weston, 54, of Anchorage, charging him with one count of sexual exploitation of a child - possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Arrested in Texas on Charge of Robbing Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jason Webb, age 45, of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Oct. 16, 2018, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute marijuana and possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - James Edward Hays, 34, of Vancleave, entered a guilty plea yesterday, before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to possession of a firearm by a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A career criminal with a violent history will spend nearly nine years in federal prison after sentencing this week for carrying a stolen pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 10, 2018, a two-count federal indictment was issued against Craig R. Webb (age: 42) of Appleton, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that an Anchorage man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in the Sept. 25, 2017, armed robbery of Caffé D’Arte and the attempted armed robbery of Heavenly Cup, which led to a vehicle chase during which defendant shot at one of the pursuing APD vehicles.
