News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal tax authorities this morning arrested an attorney on bank fraud charges for allegedly depositing a stolen U.S. Treasury check for just over $1 million.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: San Francisco, CA - On October 5 - 7, Fleet Week activities are expected to bring traffic to a standstill in and around the waterfront areas of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the Presidio of San Francisco, and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. These congested areas will include Crissy Field, Fort Point National Historic Site, Aquatic Park, and Lands End in San Francisco; Conzelman Road and Fort Baker in Marin County.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE J. CONNELLY, JR., 48, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a large-scale fencing operation.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Grizzly bear research and trapping operations will occur in Grand Teton National Park from now through mid-November. Park biologists in cooperation with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team will conduct this research to monitor the population of grizzly bears as part of on-going efforts required under the 2016 Conservation Strategy for the Grizzly Bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Tomacita Nez, 41, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 72 months’ prison followed by three years’ supervised release. Nez had previously pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a 63 year old male from New York died while swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) near Rodanthe, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Indrawattie Sookram, age 40, and a citizen of Guyana, pled guilty today to illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, committed JACK LOUIS SPORICH, 84, to the custody of the Attorney General as a sexually dangerous person. SPORICH is now the oldest sex offender to be committed under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Paul Dean Cantrell, age 57, of Hartshorne, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C), punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment, up to a $1,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Jose Ramon Rivera (23, Orlando) to 10 years and 11 months in federal prison for distributing heroin and methamphetamine, possessing firearms as a convicted felon, and carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime. Rivera pleaded guilty on July 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: A Barberton man with a history of drug convictions was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 26 months in federal prison on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: A Barberton man with a history of drug convictions was sentenced to 10 years in prison for firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: On Sept. 27, 2018, a Texas resident was sentenced in the Southern District of Florida to 6.5 years in prison for unlawfully exporting to Cuba electronic devices that require a license to export due to national security controls.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ADRIAN DAVID RAY GERDON, 38, of Pottawatomie County, has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced Robert J. Troester of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal agents today arrested the father of a Huntsville second-grader who was accidentally shot after taking a gun to school and showing it to a friend in a restroom at Blossomwood Elementary School in Huntsville, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Kurt Carpentino, 35, of Manchester, was sentenced in federal court to 32 years in prison for transporting a minor across state lines for sex, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 26 months in federal prison on his conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: Halloween Activities at Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Person Incapable of Consent was sentenced on Sept. 17, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
