News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart will honor more than 60 law enforcement officers, victim advocates, and community leaders during the 2018 U.S. Attorney’s Law Enforcement and Victim Assistance Awards Ceremony on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, at 12:30pm at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Brice Todman, 36, of St. John, was arrested onMonday, Oct. 22, 2018 on a criminal complaint charging him with bringing aliens into the United States. Jose Alfredo Rondon Castro, 40 and Juan Lorenzo Matias Peralta, 38, both of the Dominican Republic, Dionis Alexander Luis Gomez...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, a bipartisan legislative package to combat the opioid crisis, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DEQUEISHA SLEDGE, also known as “Queish" and “Shontay," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 18 months of home confinement and five years of supervised release for her role in a New Haven drug distribution ring.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: ITHACA, NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2018-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have identified networks of genes and gene regulators that allow plants to direct nitrogen to different parts. This knowledge may speed breeding new plant varieties to be more effective with how they use nitrogen, according to a paper published in Nature.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of YU ZHANG, 27, to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. ZHANG, who was initially charged via criminal complaint on June 8, 2018, pleaded guilty yesterday before Senior Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Dillon Shutt (26, Cape Coral) to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. Shutt had pleaded guilty on August 8, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: DENVER - A federal grand jury for the District of Colorado returned an indictment on Oct. 11, 2018 charging David Paul Rietz, age 59, of Arvada, Colorado and Richard Scott Cartwright, age 46, of Goodyear, Arizona with mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, aiding and abetting...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mingo County man pled guilty today to federal gun and drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Anthony Fleming, 33, of Dingess, West Virginia, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to that crime. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Mingo County Sheriff’s Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced TYRONE SAVAGE, 21, of Tarboro, to 30 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Possessed a Stolen and Loaded Handgun to Help Him Distribute Marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that a Sitka man has been indicted on federal charges alleging he illegally constructed and possessed a pipe bomb.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: A Waterloo man and convicted felon who possessed a sawed-off shotgun, shotgun shells, and other ammunition was sentenced today to twenty-five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Julio Ramos, a/k/a “Sleepy," was sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in an October 2002 drive-by shooting, resulting in the death of Aldo Vallejo, a rival gang member.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging 11 Baltimore men in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that operated in the Gilmor Homes area of Baltimore. Several of the defendants are also charged with conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and related gun and drug counts. The superseding indictment was returned on Oct. 16, 2018, and was unsealed late yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Justice Department, EPA, State of Mississippi Reach Nationwide Settlement with Chevron U.S.A. Inc. to Address Chemical Accident Prevention Violations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Historic Railroad Trail Tunnel 3 Closed Until Further Notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Four additional members of Chicago area criminal street gang, the Latin Dragons Nation, have been charged with racketeering conspiracy and other related offenses in a second superseding indictment unsealed today, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II for the Northern District of Indiana announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Trevor Ahearn, 28, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute over 400 grams of fentanyl.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the signing of H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act into law by President Trump...
