News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An illegal alien with a prior felony drug trafficking conviction was sentenced today to more than 12 years in prison for cocaine distribution and firearms charges related to his involvement in a prolific cocaine trafficking network in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Joaquin Ramon Alfonseca, 41, from Suttons Bay, Michigan, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for Assault by Strangulation of a Native American woman, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist imposed a 3-year term of supervised release that will commence once Alfonseca is released from imprisonment.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Washington - Representatives from 49 U.S. agribusinesses and farm organizations will join Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Administrator Ken Isley on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) first-ever trade mission to Taipei, Taiwan, April 22-25.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with distributing more than 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident Joshua Jock Clause who admitted to trafficking large amounts of methamphetamine and to possessing firearms was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and to five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly man was sentenced today in connection with mailing threatening letters containing suspicious white powder to high-profile individuals, law enforcement officials and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Myron William Ernst (61, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to bank robbery. Ernst faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Thursday, April 18, 2019, Jonathan Alan Ochoa, 31, of Talent, Oregon, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ALANNA JEAN ORR, 50, of Oklahoma City, has been charged with felony murder of a child in Indian Country, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Darnell Antonio Mills, 38, of McClain, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 278 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: An FBI Special Agent from the Oxford Resident Agency Office has been recognized in two separate award ceremonies this week for his investigation of civil rights and human trafficking cases and his work with victims of those offenses. FBI Special Agent Walter Henry, of the FBI Oxford Resident Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that former South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) Officer Joshua Cave, 30, of Allendale, South Carolina, was sentenced to 6 months in federal prison and 6 months of probation after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Honest Services Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bikila Kejella, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for killing a man in Northwest Washington in 2016, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Dr. Greg Collins, a licensed veterinarian and the founder and owner of the Louisville Family Animal Hospital in Louisville, Colorado, has agreed to pay the United States $226,000, surrender his Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA") registration, and permanently relinquish his Colorado veterinary medicine license to settle allegations that he violated multiple provisions of the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that KEITH ANTHONY RAMIREZ, age 34, pled guilty before the United States District Court to a one-count Indictment charging him with bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A California man who admitted supplying prescription pain pills for distribution on the Rocky Boys Indian Reservation was sentenced on April 18 to 92 months in prison and to three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: Final preparations are underway at Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area for the 19th annual Spring Planting and Music Festival this Saturday, April 27, 2019. The festival celebrates the coming of spring and the Appalachian way of life that has been such an important part of the history of the Big South Fork area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that AARON RUDOLPH, age 26, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Aiding and Abetting.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2019
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Army, volunteers and other local community supporters invite the public to a ribbon cutting ceremony for two new trails on Saturday, April 20, at 9:15 a.m. along Parker Flats Road and the intersection with Watkins Gate Dirt Road on the Fort Ord National Monument. Several partners have helped develop the trails, which will provide greater public access on the seven-year anniversary of the Monument.
