News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - 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 effective...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging RICARDO CONTRERAS-MENDOZA, age 33, of Mexico and FERNAND JUAN JOSE LEWIS, age 39, of Canada, with illegal reentry of a deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued a statement following a EPW Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight hearing entitled, “Oversight of the Environmental Protection Agency's Implementation ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday advanced S. 785, the Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act , out of committee by voice vote. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, both R-Alaska, would allow approximately 2,800 Alaska Natives who served during the Vietnam-era to apply for their Congressionally-promised Native allotment, after they missed their initial opportunity to do so because of their service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Jose Adilio Mancia-Sandoval, age 29, of Springdale, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 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 3, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: POINT MARION, PA - 2018 marks the bicentennial of the opening of the Eastern Legacy portion of the National Road from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia). The National Park Service has partnered with Washington & Jefferson College and the National Road Heritage Corridor to commemorate this important milestone and to recognize the National Road’s significance and legacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A $493,694 federal grant will support the Wichita Police Department’s program to work with gun owners and gun dealers to reduce violent crime, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A nurse practitioner and a surgical technician pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday in connection to the unlawful distribution of prescription opioids and for committing Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The Department of Justice is awarding over $8.4 million to 12 Massachusetts programs that are working to combat the opioid crisis through prevention, treatment and enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man arrested in April 2017 during a year-long Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation to identify individuals possessing or trafficking firearms in and around the Chad Brown neighborhood of Providence was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for possessing and selling an unregistered machine gun equipped with a silencer and for selling 240 grams of fentanyl laced heroin to an undercover federal law enforcement agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man who was arrested following a domestic disturbance in which he discharged his weapon was sentenced today to 94 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: “I am not a predator," Coronado HS Teacher Told Victim’s Mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - Don Lamont Wilkerson was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in prison. On March 30, 2018, a federal jury found Wilkerson, 44, of Charleston, guilty of three counts of distributing methamphetamine. He has been in federal custody since Sept. 26, 2016. United States Attorney Stuart commended the investigative work of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has returned guilty verdicts against an East West Bank branch manager and a bank customer who conspired to launder over $25,000 in cash by converting the currency into cashier’s checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A former resident of Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 70 months imprisonment to be followed by six years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that WILLIAM BURBANK was arrested on wire fraud charges stemming...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Andrew Young (619) 546-7981, Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Benjamin J. Katz (619) 546-9604.
