News from April 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - An El Paso man remains in federal custody following his arrest last week by special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on criminal charges of possessing and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Christopher Watson, 29, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in prison followed by three years of court supervision for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Theresa Jurae-Lekole Woodson, 31, of Charleston, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Stuart commended the efforts of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Federal prosecutors yesterday charged a Jefferson County home builder with a wire fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former New Jersey firefighter was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with a heroin conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant joins the Drug Enforcement Administration in announcing that on April 27th, DEA will hold its 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at thousands of collection sites around the country, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 24, 2019, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Theodore O. Wing, age 52, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, to 63 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for aiding and abetting false statements in the purchase of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - More than 250 law enforcement personnel this morning arrested 24 members and associates of the Westside Verdugo street gang in San Bernardino who are charged in eight federal indictments, one of which alleges they deliberately got themselves arrested in order to smuggle narcotics and syringes hidden in their body cavities into San Bernardino County jails.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man has been indicted on an additional charge stemming from his role as the leader of a drug trafficking organization that dealt heroin and crack cocaine in and around Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Property Owner Subjected Women to Sexual Harassment for Over 10 Years.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: ELY, Nev. - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management’s Ely District Office will offer 8 parcels (totaling approximately 16,244 acres) in White Pine County at the September 2019 Nevada State Office quarterly oil and gas lease sale. This notice initiates a public comment period on associated environmental documents that ends on May 24, 2019. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass-Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent Brian Carlstrom announced the first piping plovers in the seashore were observed on March 21 at the Armstrong dune shack and Head of the Meadow beach areas in Truro, MA. Piping plovers continue to return from their wintering grounds and are actively pairing up for the breeding season. To date, the shorebird team has observed a total of 55 pairs and 25 single plovers that have returned to the seashore for nesting.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation in New England, announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Dear Ambassador Lighthizer:. As our Committee prepares to consider the renegotiated trade agreement with Canada and Mexico (“the new Agreement"), we write to express our concerns regarding the enforceability and eventual enforcement of the new Agreement. The question of enforceability relates directly...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on April 24, 2019, Michael Anthony Santistevan, age 31, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge James E. Gritzner for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Santistevan was sentenced to 235 months in prison, to be followed by a term of supervised release of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Christopher Watson, 29, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in prison followed by three years of court supervision for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Jesus Ernesto Rodriguez, 36, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to serve 103 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Homeland Secuity Investigations (HSI). Rodriguez was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Second Defendant Also Pleads Guilty in Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts District Court Judge and Trial Court Officer were indicted today in federal court in Boston on obstruction of justice charges for preventing an ICE Officer from taking custody of an alien defendant.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - With robust public participation over the course of 16 prior events, the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Initiative continues to remove ever-higher amounts of opioids and other medicines from the nation’s homes, where they are vulnerable to misuse, theft or abuse by family members...
