News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Atanasio Jose Marcos Avila, 30, of Stockton, charging him with possessing methamphetamine for distribution, possessing a firearm as a felon, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Scott Freeman, 42, of Silver City, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm. The firearms at issue allegedly were stolen during a home burglary in Grant County, N.M., in Aug. 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: Almost 100 Criminals Taken Off Streets of Jackson; 167 Fewer Violent Crimes in Jackson Since Last Year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: Yakima - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Deryk Alexander Donato, age 25, of Wapato, Washington, and an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on Feb. 21, 2018, to Voluntary Manslaughter...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM MILLETT, 28, of Groton, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: A Manassas Park, Virginia man was sentenced today to 35 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing and distributing child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Robs Northeast Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal charges of hacking into email and social media accounts to obtain nude photographs of women and then threating to publish the nude photos unless victims provided him with additional explicit pictures.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 60-year-old resident of Bellaire made his initial appearance on a 13-count indictment charging him with wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that KENDALL CELESTINE, age 21, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty to federal firearms and narcotics violations.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: CONTACT: USDA Press Office, press@oc.usda.gov. Washington, D.C., Oct. 1, 2018) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued the following statement regarding the announcement of a United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA): “The great news of a new USMCA deal is important for our economy...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to Surgeon General Jerome Adams pressing him to take steps to address the rising number of sexually transmitted disease (STD) cases. The Senator also stressed the disproportionate effect of STDs on LGBTQ and minority communities and the importance of targeted prevention efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Giesey, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - Earlier this year Water Canyon was hit by a spate of vandalism. But, on Saturday, Sept. 22, 70 volunteers joined the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, Humboldt River Field Office for National Public Lands Day to rehabilitate this treasured recreation area and the nearby Bloody Shins Bike Trail.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, NV - Winnemucca, Nev. - Seasonal Fire Restrictions for the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District, which were declared on Aug. 1, 2018, will be lifted effective at 12:01 am on Friday Oct. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Jasiel F. Correia II, the Mayor of Fall River, was arrested this morning and charged with wire and tax fraud in connection with a multi-year investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, William F. Sweeney, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), James J. Hunt, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Rafael Delatorre, 33, of Fresno, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to using a cellphone to facilitate a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2018
News Release: After any natural disaster, scam artists come out of the woodwork to exploit people at a vulnerable time - stealing their money and their identity and often preventing them from getting the real help they need.
