News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 28-year-old Laredo resident has been detained on charges of transporting an undocumented alien, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: St. George, Utah - On August 5, 2019, fire managers responded to a lightning caused fire located approximately 53 miles south of St. George, Utah within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument. The “Trumbull Fire," located in the Mt. Trumbull Wilderness is now approximately 505 acres, burning in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nathan Cavin, 38, of St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 135 months in prison for his involvement in a multi-defendant methamphetamine conspiracy in the Eastern District of Missouri. Cavin appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Galvan L. Betonie, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Smith Lake, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 216 months of imprisonment for his conviction on two aggravated child sexual abuse charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Noel, Missouri, man has been charged in federal court with kidnapping the 4-year-old daughter of a woman whose body was discovered in a suitcase last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County man was convicted of a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Shyqwon Carter, 21, of Charleston, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Charleston Police Department and the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Jeffrey Stoneburner II, age 38, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after his guilty plea to transportation of child pornography, announced U.S Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Blake Lee Bissell, 28, of Haughton, Louisiana, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to serve seven and a half years in prison for persuading a minor to travel with him from West Virginia to Louisiana in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A prolific South Charleston methamphetamine trafficker was sentenced to 12 years in prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Mary Haynes, 38, previously pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: Washington-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement about China’s threats of military intervention against protesters in Hong Kong...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - David Jones, 20, St. Louis, MO, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for carjacking. Jones appeared today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie White.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers removed a Peruvian man wanted in his home country for aggravated robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Ruchlicki, age 63, of Clifton Park, New York, was sentenced today to 1 year of probation for making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albany Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: Dominique Lavelle Oatis, of Centralia, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Earl Vinson III, 21, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to serve 20 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He previously pleaded guilty to the federal firearm charge on April 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Crafton, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: In celebration of the National Park Service turning 103 years old, Obed Wild & Scenic River will host a combined birthday party and 8th annual photo contest reception on Friday, August 23 at Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. The festivities will begin at 5:00 PM (ET).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN PAGE, 45, of Guilford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to an additional three months of imprisonment for failing to surrender for service of his federal sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Bristow, Oklahoma, resident GEORGE PHILLIP TIGER, age 69, has been Indicted for Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 666(a)(1)(B), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
