News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Donai Villafuerte-Martinez, 28, an illegal alien from Guatemala, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to the federal crime of Unlawful Reentry by an Alien after Removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: MONTGOMERY - One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Sessions has made the centerpiece of the Department’s violent crime reduction strategy. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that John R. Gosney, IV, age 29, of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 134,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal jury Thursday found a Morris County man guilty of downloading child pornography from the internet, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced two additional defendants to federal prison for their participation in an identity theft and credit card scam carried out at various Walmart and Sams Club stores. The Court also directed that each of the defendants serve terms of supervised release, and the forfeiture of the proceeds of their crimes.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the annual Medicare Advantage and Part D Landscape, which found enrollment in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans is projected...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: REDDING, Calif. -- With the return of cooler weather, the Bureau of Land Management has rescinded fire restrictions on northwest California public lands managed by the Redding and Arcata field offices in Shasta, Trinity, Butte, Siskiyou, Tehama, Humboldt, Mendocino and Del Norte counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Fairfax man surrendered to the FBI on an outstanding arrest warrant today in connection with being charged with having committed securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -The United States has secured a judgment in a civil action seeking the forfeiture of $396,589 associated with a United Arab Emirates-based company, Royal Pearls General Trading, that allegedly engaged in illegal business dealings involving a company in Iran, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Sean M. Cox, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Springfield, Illinois Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Baltimore and Greenbelt, Maryland - In U.S. District Court in Maryland today, two defendants-one a previously deported alien-were sentenced to federal prison for distribution and possession of child pornography, respectively. Two other defendants-one a previously convicted sex offender-each pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Frantisek Pribyl, 49, of Snellville, Georgia, was sentenced to 120 months in prison today, after being convicted on May 23 of attempted enticement of a minor and travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: The Silk Road Website Was Responsible for Selling Over $200 Million in Illegal Narcotics and Other Contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Cross-country operation distributed marijuana in Georgia and other states, laundered more than $8 million in illegal proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will fully reopen Mauna Loa Road to vehicles on Mon., Oct. 8, along with Mauna Loa Trail, the 13,677-foot summit and both high-altitude cabins.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on October 4, 2018, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Grant Vance and Gregory Paradis with drug-related crimes. The indictment alleges that between early 2018 and June 28 of 2018, Vance and Paradis conspired to distribute buprenorphine, and that on June 28, 2018, Vance possessed with intent to distribute buprenorphine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Ongoing feud led to day of violence on June 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Guatemalan man was sentenced today to over 17 years in prison for his role in transporting 1,107 kilograms of cocaine for a large-scale Guatemalan drug trafficking organization (DTO) operating in Central America, as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation codenamed Operation Go Explorers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) introduced H.R. 6933, the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018. This legislation finally gets rid of Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and replaces...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Kione Anthony Banks, age 21, of Washington, D.C., to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on federal charges of robbery, and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The federal charges arose from a series of armed robberies of 7-Eleven convenience stores.
