News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that Chief United States District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced DWAYNE WINANS JR., a/k/a “Butter," to 30 years of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. WINANS is also required to pay $12,187 in restitution to Gulf Coast Bank. WINANS JR., age 25, of New Orleans, and BRYSON TUESNO, age 24, also of New Orleans, were convicted on April 26, 2018, after a four-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Jordanian national who was sentenced to prison in Israel after admitting he acted at the direction of a terrorist organization to detonate a roadside bomb in an attempt to blow up a civilian bus in Israel was ordered today to serve a nine-month prison sentence for lying to immigration authorities to obtain U.S. citizenship and, as a result of his conviction, will be deported to Jordan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Ross Township, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald and DEA Special Agent in Charge Richard Salter Jr. announced that the DEA and its national, tribal and community partners will host the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at more 6,000 sites nationwide...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stephen-Dean Dollard Schmidt, age 27, of Roff, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: OMAHA, Neb., - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its national, tribal and community partners will host the 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at more 6,000 sites nationwide, including 24 locations in South Dakota. To date, 20 counties...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: As of mid-April, visitors to the Steel Creek Area of Buffalo National River may be greeted at the fence line by a couple of new faces. The National Park Service recently purchased two quarter horses from the Arkansas Department of Correction (ADC) to revitalize Buffalo National River’s mounted patrol program.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Indian Creek Campground, located adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, California, will open Friday May 3, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXANDER CALDERON, 23, of Thomaston, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: The leader of a dangerous drug distribution ring, who continued to run his drug operation after fleeing to Mexico, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 20 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. As early as 2010, JESUS ENRIQUE PALOMERA, 39, conspired with others to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that TRINA ROBAIR, age 44, of New Orleans, Louisiana pleaded guilty Wednesday, April 24, 2019 to a one count Bill of Information charging her with Bank Larceny in relation to stealing at least $149,500 from an elderly deceased woman for whom ROBAIR was a caretaker, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section § 2113(b).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Jorion Garrett, 21, of Hazelwood, MO, pleaded guilty to three carjacking and two firearms charges. Garrett appeared today before U.S. District Judge Catherine D. Perry, who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for July 31, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Friday, May 3, Night Sky Program, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Fire managers from Rocky Mountain National Park are preparing to conduct prescribed burns in the Beaver Meadows entrance area. Burning will only occur if favorable weather and fuel conditions permit. A 36 acre section of this area was burned this past October.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: FBI Oklahoma City Division Announces Retirement of Special Agent in Charge Kathryn Peterson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned an indictment charging Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, of Flora Vista, N.M., with being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, announced New Mexico U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former physician was sentenced today to more than seven years in prison for operating a pill mill that illegally distributed over 600,000 oxycodone pills out of a pain management clinic in Woodbridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Allen Johnson, age 38, of Baltimore City, Maryland, to 11 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute narcotics and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two Massachusetts men were sentenced in federal court in Worcester in connection with operating separate illegal sports gambling businesses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Egin Lakes Campground and Day Use area will re-open for the season on April 27 and the area north of the Egin-Hamer road and the Stinking Springs area near the South Fork of the Snake River will re-open for the season on May 1.
