News from October 2018
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The National Park Service, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the Presidio Trust launched the public engagement process for a multi-year effort to revitalize the Crissy Field area of the Presidio. With a growing urban population, unique natural and cultural features...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Jerry Jerome Yeldell, age 50, of Greenwood, South Carolina, was sentenced after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). Senior United States District Henry M. Herlong, Jr., of Greenville, sentenced Yeldell to 90 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A family practice physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced in federal court Thursday for his role in transporting illegal aliens inside of a tractor trailer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - One year ago, the Department of Justice announced the revitalization and enhancement of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), which Attorney General Jeff 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 4, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 24 years and four months in prison on charges that included selling heroin that caused the death of a 22-year-old Hoover man, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington District is reopening the public call for nominations for five open positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: * Fire danger in Yellowstone has dropped to LOW.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Twelve individuals are facing federal charges as part of an investigation into heroin trafficking on the West Side of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAVIER VASQUEZ MARTINEZ, 39, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Meriden, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A Mesquite-based bariatric surgeon today formally admitted his role in the $200 million Forest Park Medical Center fraud, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Anthony Michael Mowery, 42, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. Stuart commended the efforts of the Parkersburg Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man arrested a week ago on federal indictments charging him with unlawfully selling four firearms, including two AR-47 assault rifles, was re-arrested yesterday and ordered detained in federal custody on a criminal complaint charging him with witness intimidation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Anthony D. Jones, 30, Fitchburg, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to eight years in federal prison for robbing a BP gas station and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of that robbery. Jones pleaded guilty to these charges on July 11, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a five-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEJUAN WARD, also known as “Hot Boi," 21, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to racketeering and firearm charges stemming from his role in a violent street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 79-year-old Hooks, Texas, man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment on Oct. 2, 2018, charging Phillip Finn, Jr, age 48, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, with interstate communications and using fire to commit a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Fort Knox, Kentucky soldier pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings, to five counts of production of child pornography by a parent, 10 counts of transportation of child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that two Alaska residents have been sentenced to federal prison for attempting to smuggle drugs into the State of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) Mat-Su Pretrial Correctional Facility (Mat-Su Pretrial) in Palmer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEJUAN WARD, also known as “Hot Boi," 21, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to racketeering and firearm charges stemming from his role in a violent street gang.
