News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth Copeland was sentenced to federal prison on Oct. 22, 2018, for being a felon in possession of a firearm after bringing an assault rifle into the Dunbar Recreational Center Gymnasium.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - After collecting a total of more than 9.9 million pounds (nearly 5,000 tons) of expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications during 15 previous events over the past eight years, the Drug Enforcement Administration expects to reach a total of 10 million pounds collected following the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Kenneth Copeland was sentenced to federal prison on Oct. 22, 2018, for being a felon in possession of a firearm after bringing an assault rifle into the Dunbar Recreational Center Gymnasium.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Absentee Shawnee and Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes Included in Expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: NEWNAN, Ga. - Christopher Bradley Braden, who on two separate occasions arranged to meet minor girls for sex, was sentenced to federal prison for enticing a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that two federal prosecutors in the Virgin Islands U.S. Attorney’s Office (VI-USAO) will be honored on Oct. 26, 2018 at a national awards ceremony in Miami, sponsored by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Sarah Melissa Cox, 41, of Cottonwood, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to 262 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release. Cox had been convicted of three counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of noticing or advertising child pornography, and one count of distribution of child pornography at a jury trial in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Five individuals have been indicted for carjacking and armed robbery. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Donora, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Mansfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Nigerian owner of a day care center in Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to submitting false information to the government as part of a fraud scheme to receive federal child care subsidies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 23, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin Safford, age 33, of Amsterdam, New York, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography and accessing a child pornography web site available only through an anonymous Internet network.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: In Alpine today, 66-year-old Carlos Eduardo Nieto, former Special Projects Coordinator for the City of Presidio and former Presidio Independent School District trustee, entered a guilty plea to federal charges related to a public corruption investigation, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Workers at the Hanford Site continue to make significant strides toward moving nearly 2,000 radioactive capsules to dry storage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - Jeremiah Armstrong, 29, of West Alexandria, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for possessing images and videos of child pornography, including those of prepubescent children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Tyrone Jason Murphy, age 27, of Washington, D.C., to 11 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, on federal charges of robbery, and using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The federal charges arose from a series of 10 armed robberies of 7-Eleven convenience stores.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - More than 3,000 federal and contractor employees visited nearly 70 informational booths focused on the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) safety culture during an annual expo at the Applied Research Center last week.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, requested information from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on its efforts to stop methamphetamine from flowing into the United States and what resources may be necessary...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Weather has delayed the park’s planned closure of Angels Landing and a portion of West Rim Trail to October 24 through Oct. 26, 2018. The closure is necessary in order to empty and remove the two evaporative toilets at Scout Lookout by helicopter.
