News from October 2018

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Lori Murphy, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 15 months incarceration for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Derik Wayne Frazier, age 35, of Durant, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of Title...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: VALDOSTA-- United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announced that Henry Austin, II a/k/a “Poochie," age 49, of Valdosta, Georgia was convicted Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Cocaine base following a three...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two men have pleaded guilty in Hartford federal court to charges related to the illegal manufacturing and possession of machine guns.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Come see for yourselves how the ancestral Puebloans stayed warm as archaeologist Mary Weahkee demonstrates the traditional art of making turkey feather blankets on Wednesday November 14th at 10:00 a.m. at the Pecos National Historical Park Visitor Center. She will showcase the creation, materials...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Derek Hillgert, 29, of Carmichael, and Jeffrey Wilhite, 31, of Linden, pleaded guilty today to committing access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of stolen mail, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of McKean, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Grover Allen White, of Romney, West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric J.D. Contreras, 33, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith today announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 14 men with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) from 2012 until now. According to the indictment, the 110 Gang uses murder, robberies, assaults...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Guilty Pleas Relate to a Murder in 2016, Three Attempted Murders, Drug Trafficking and Firearms Offenses.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Fort Scott National Historic Site Announces Its 37th Annual Candlelight Tour.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: ASHFORD, Wash. - The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyze the potential impacts and benefits of a proposal submitted by Pierce County Planning and Public Works (Pierce County) to retrofit the upper Nisqually River levee with deflectors in Mount Rainier...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: A man who got ice methamphetamine from California and then resold it in Iowa was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2018, to more than seven years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Springhill man pleaded guilty last week to supplying more than a kilogram of methamphetamine to a Bossier City woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Ronald Catalan, a former leader of the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas (BLS) clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, a transnational criminal organization, and Jerlin Villalta, a member of the Freeport Locos Salvatruchas (FLS) clique of the...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Defendant Misappropriated Over $1.1 Million of Investor Funds to Buy a Luxury Car, Renovate His Home and Pay His Defense Counsel in a Related Criminal Case.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Marshall County woman for producing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and ICE Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Alabama James G. Hernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Georgia man for organizing and operating an interstate jury-duty scam out of his state prison cell in Georgia, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr. and U.S. Marshal Martin Keely.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP"), Robert...