News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. (Apr. 25, 2019)-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Burlington, VT - This weekend, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will once again conduct one of its most popular community programs: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On Saturday, April 27, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the public can dispose of their expired, unused and unwanted prescription...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- U.S. Attorney Sherri A. Lydon today encouraged public participation in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 17th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will take place this Saturday, April 27, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at thousands of collection...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Jupiter resident was sentenced to twenty years in prison for a string of bank robberies in Palm Beach and Martin Counties in 2017 and 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Mild weather and one of Interior Alaska’s warmest winters on record have aided the park’s spring road crew in their efforts to open the Denali Park Road. Park staff officially opened the road to private vehicle traffic as far as mile 30, the Teklanika Rest Area, at noon today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Amead Williams, 24, pleaded guilty on April 25, 2019 in federal court to possession of a firearm while under indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A criminal complaint has been filed in federal court against a resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., charging him with coercion and enticement of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DUSTIN DINET, age 32, of New Orleans, and STEVEN DINET, age 44, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Springfield man with attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, and receipt, distribution, possession, and transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Two men with prior homicide convictions were sentenced to prison for firearms and drug trafficking charges crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal sentenced CHRISTOPHER PERFECT (a/k/a Christopher Star Perfect and a/k/a Chris Johnson), 38, of Yucca Valley, California on April 24, 2019 for felon in possession of ammunition and fugitive in possession of ammunition. Perfect was arrested in Fresno, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738 and Andrew P. Young (619) 546-7981.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Edwin Enoc Lara, 34, a former campus safety officer at Central Oregon Community College and resident of Bend, Oregon, was sentenced today to life in federal prison for kidnapping and carjacking.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the release of a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested on the DHS and FEMA contracting process for disaster recovery efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Fabian Castro, age 48, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on April 24, 2019, to 16 months of imprisonment by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard. In addition to the imprisonment, Castro will be placed on two years of supervised release after he is released from custody. Castro pleaded guilty to one violation of participation in an animal fighting venture.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Isaiah Green, 28, of Washington D.C., has been sentenced to a 50-month prison term for his role in a gun trafficking scheme in the District of Columbia, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s decision to halt development of the five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing, which has been in development since the spring of 2017. The news, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes in the wake of a federal ruling in Alaska reinstating a ban on oil and gas drilling across much of the Arctic Ocean.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Kentucky Woman Charged With Sex Trafficking Two Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Twenty people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to obtain large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and fentanyl analogues and sell the drugs to customers on the west side of Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced today that on April 18, 2019, David E. Polnitz, Jr., was sentenced in federal court to 36 months in prison for illegally possessing a firearm and forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating or interfering with a United States Postal Service (“USPS") Letter Carrier. A jury had previously found Polnitz guilty of these charges.
