News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Wisconsin Resident Waheba Dais Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An inmate at Leavenworth federal prison was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for attacking another prisoner with a metal pipe, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today hosted a field summit examining the rising costs to taxpayers from extreme weather and climate change. The summit, titled “The Cost of Inaction: The Impacts of Climate...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Victims Include Daughter of Tennessee State Trooper Killed in the Line of Duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on April 22, 2019, Yosvany Padilla-Conde, of Milwaukee, pled guilty to aiding and abetting Jason Luedke’s attempt to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization - i.e., the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the Shasta Lake Lion’s Club will host a classic car show and parade at Shasta Dam, featuring vintage vehicles from across Northern California and a “Best in Show" competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Cornell D. Wallace, of Canton, Ohio, was sentenced today to 77 months incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Devon J. Donald, a 26 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to one year of probation after conviction for embezzling from the U.S. mail.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement in support of today's announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the U.S. will no longer grant sanctions waivers to nations that import Iranian oil:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A total of nineteen individuals have been indicted in two separate indictments for conspiracy to distribute Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Marijuana in the Western District of Tennessee. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictments today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: A Florida man who formerly lived in Cresco, Iowa, was sentenced today to the maximum possible sentence of ten years in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Javier Ivan Torres, age 29, of Scottsdale, Arizona, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A), punishable by not less than 10 and not more than life imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: School Owner Indicted for Defrauding Department of Veterans Affairs Program Dedicated to Rehabilitating Disabled Military Veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Alexander Miske, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: Local history will come alive at Fort Caroline National Memorial on Saturday May 4, 2019 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, during the annual commemoration of the French naval expedition that landed along the banks of the St. Johns River in the 16th century.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Lawrence man was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, he was ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution and a $5,000 assessment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Tooles Contracting Group, LLC, of Detroit, Michigan, Commercial Contracting Corporation (CCC) of Auburn Hills, Michigan, G&B Electric, Inc., and G&B Electric’s President, James Gierlach, both of Ferndale, Michigan, have agreed to pay...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arnold Boon, 33, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from a robbery in which he and at least two others drove a stolen pick-up truck through the front of a Northwest Washington convenience store and hauled off an ATM machine containing at least $130,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting the Trout Springs Jackpot Prescribed Burn, located 36 miles southeast of Jordan Valley, OR, on Juniper Mountain, sometime in late April or May, depending on weather, fuel and ground conditions. The burn area is approximately 285 acres.
