News from September 2018
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: White Sands National Monument assists in visitor fatality investigation, and reminds visitors to take safety precautions.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) released the following statement on the conference committee report on the fiscal year 2019 Defense and Labor-HHS-Educations Appropriations Minibus.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Benell English, 57, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison Wednesday and ordered to pay $182,877 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after having been found guilty on May 23 of preparing false tax returns. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Michael Wheat (619) 546-8437.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Everette Reel, 46, of Upper Marlboro, Md., pled guilty today to trafficking in crack and cocaine following an investigation into a narcotics conspiracy involving eight individuals in Washington, D.C. and Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Nancy McNamara, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brandon Shields, age 33, formerly of Philadelphia, and currently a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2018, to assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge A. Richard Caputo to serve an additional five years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Stabbed Victim in Unprovoked Attack Outside Restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man today admitted giving a bribe to an employee of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Damanpreet Singh, 33, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to two years in prison for conspiring to commit bribery, identity fraud and unauthorized access of a computer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Farmington Field Office is seeking volunteers for its upcoming National Public Lands Day event on Sept. 22. In recognition of this annual observance, the BLM will be accomplishing some on-the-ground projects to enhance the flora and fauna of public land in northwest New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JAMAR RUCKER, age 42, of Houston, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of possessing with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of powder cocaine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. RUCKER faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years in prison, a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000,000, and at least 4 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Washington - Beginning Monday, Sept. 24, the National Park Service will start work to improve the bicycle and pedestrian trail that connects the north terminus of the 14th Street Bridge with East Basin Drive near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The project will widen and improve the trail surface...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, today announced that MARK ROHRER, 37, of West Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Federal prosecutors in Salt Lake City have unsealed charges alleging three individuals operating a drug trafficking organization traveled from Phoenix to Salt Lake City in August and kidnapped a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint from his mother’s Utah business while trying to collect a heroin-related drug debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in a scheme to steal money through fraudulently obtained refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Masterminded Scheme to Defraud Multiple Financing Companies Resulting In The Victims’ Loss of More Than $9,500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury in Fresno returned a five-count indictment Thursday against 16 members and associates of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott for the Eastern District of California announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeks the Public's Assistance in Locating Fugitive Leo Bibbs, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2018
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood; Defendant Faces 15 to 20 Year Prison Sentence.
