News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Faces up to 30 years incarceration for gun and drug possession at local casino.
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: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Kloud Logan Jones, 27, of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, was sentenced today, to 25 years in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for distributing fentanyl that caused a death.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser joins the DEA in announcing its 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day scheduled for April 27th. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at thousands of collection sites around the country, including here in the Eastern District of Louisiana. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold a Members’ Day Hearing on Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 10:00 am in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that Devin Jefferson (age: 30) of Indianapolis, Indiana was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Judge Pamela Pepper to 130 months’ imprisonment for his involvement in three armed pharmacy robberies of Walgreens stores located in the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Salvadoran fugitive and known MS-13 gang member wanted for aggravated homicide in his home country was removed Thursday by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it has approved the construction of nearly 12 miles of new single-track mountain bike trails and the designation of nearly ten miles of two-track foot and horse trails in the popular Crown Special Recreation Management Area in the Roaring Fork Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Jaron Johnson, 22, Jarod Johnson, 20, and Patricia Carrington, 46, all of Gary, Indiana, were charged in a criminal complaint with kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery and Carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A man who once bragged about outrunning the cops won’t be going anywhere for a while. Lee E. Nichols, 35, of Cahokia, Illinois, has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing methamphetamine and a gun, United States Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft announced. United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: A man who distributed and possessed child pornography pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An East Greenwich, R.I. woman whose business specialized in preserving the current condition of foreclosed homes for resale has been charged in U.S. District Court in Providence. The defendant allegedly operated a scheme whereby she raised and pocketed millions of dollars from investors...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced former Philadelphia Police officer Eric Troy Snell, age 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, today to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: DEA Encourages Americans to Dispose of Expired and Unwanted Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Jonathan Thompson, age 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 16 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for carjacking and for brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. The sentence was imposed on April 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: Allegations include issuing prescriptions without legitimate medical need and widespread recordkeeping violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime by focusing on firearms prosecutions, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced that on Thursday a federal grand jury returned indictments in the following cases involving illegal firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - At California Trail Days, a teacher and his students from Paradise, Ca. will present a special program about their experience travelling on the California Trail in Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Lancaster, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of making false claims against the United States, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
