News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann sentenced a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of abusive sexual contact on Oct. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Evidence Proved Alonzo Harris Shipped Dozens of Pounds of Methamphetamine Into the Northern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that 63-year old Jewell Kipp of Great Falls was sentenced to 94 months in prison, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - Jackie Lee Brooks, 54, of Ashland MS, the leader of a multi-defendant conspiracy, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison resulting from his role in a methamphetamine (ice) distribution conspiracy in the Northern District of Mississippi by Chief Judge Sharion Aycock at the United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Seky Daniel, 26, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to seven years in federal prison, for distributing cocaine and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Daniel pleaded guilty to these charges on July 10, 2018. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
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 Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office announced today that Taylor Engineering P.L.L.C, will begin detouring traffic on County 16th and Avenue C starting Oct. 15, 2018 as part of a joint project with the agency to accommodate the installation of a new municipal sewer pipeline.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W. VA - Donald Wayne McCune of St. Albans was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for the distribution of methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Stuart commended the investigative work of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: OXFORD - Jackie Lee Brooks, 54, of Ashland MS, the leader of a multi-defendant conspiracy, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison resulting from his role in a methamphetamine (ice) distribution conspiracy in the Northern District of Mississippi by Chief Judge Sharion Aycock at the United States...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pecos District is reopening the public call for nominations for four open positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC).
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: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Bluefield man pled guilty today to a federal gun charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Tykeem Freeman, 25, entered his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Southern Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Hanrahan, 57, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to heroin and methamphetamine trafficking charges without the benefit of a plea agreement. At sentencing, Hanrahan faces a statutory mandatory minimum penalty of ten years and a maximum of life in federal prison. However, if the court determines that Hanrahan is a career offender, he faces a prison sentence within the range of 30 years to a maximum of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mark Bieniek, 45, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to cyberstalking. The charge carries a minimum penalty of one year in prison, a maximum of five years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC ------ United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An indictment was unsealed following the arrests today of two defendants in Medellin, Colombia, for a lottery fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: Albuquerque, N.M. - There will be more traffic and activity at El Vado Dam and Reservoir in October as crews perform various tests and work in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison for stealing a firearm from a gun show in Berea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: EL PASO, Texas -- An El Paso woman who fled the country prior to sentencing on federal drug trafficking and bribery charges in 2010 has been extradited to the United States from Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas John F. Bash; Drug Enforcement Administration El Paso Division...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in U.S. District Court in Helena on Thursday convicted two defendants of robbery and firearms charges in a drug-related home invasion. The four-day trial that began on Monday.
