News published on Federal Newswire in August 2019

News from August 2019


United States Attorney’s Office to Host Re-entry Services Fair in Meridian Under Project EJECT

News Release: Event Seeks to Assist Recently Released Offenders with Necessary Services to be Successful.


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to cocaine and gun charges.


News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the August 2019 Federal Grand Jury B.


News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Jack Dewayne Neugin, age 50, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation...


Former Girard, Pennsylvania Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Producing Sexually Explicit Photos of Young Children

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Girard, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 years in prison, lifetime supervised release and a $5,300 special assessment on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.


News Release: "As the Attorney General stated, 'Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered.' We agree, and therefore ask that you provide responses to the following questions concerning this incident."


Three men indicted for possession methamphetamine found in active conversion laboratory

News Release: ROME, Ga. - Daniel Landa-Duerta, Mauricio Dominguez-Vazquez, and Jorge Armando Avalos-Menera has been arraigned on federal charges related to methamphetamine seized from a conversion laboratory in Dallas, Georgia.


Former Military Official Heads to Prison for Trafficking Cocaine

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 47-year-old Mexican national has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of importing cocaine into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.


BLM Transfers Fire Engine to the Andrews Rangeland Fire Protection Association

News Release: Hines, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management recently completed the transfer of a wildland fire engine to the Fields-Andrews Rangeland Fire Protection Association (RFPA) in Harney County. On Monday, Aug. 12, the keys and ownership of a 2011 Ford F550 were handed over to John Williams, Fields-Andrews...


Thirteen-Time Felon Pleads Guilty to Drug and Gun Charges

News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man pleaded guilty today to cocaine and gun charges.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PEDRO MANOLO ARAGON-HERNANDEZ, age 39, a citizen of Honduras, was charged on Thursday, August 8, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326.


News Release: DENVER - Riordan A. Maynard, age 50, of Centennial, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to serve 78 months (6 ½ years) in federal prison for corruptly impeding the administration of tax laws, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to steal or...


News Release: Conspirators Used GPS Tracking Devices to Hunt Their Victim.


News Release: Two bank robbers who led police on a wild chase across the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex earlier this year have been sentenced to a combined 35 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.


Baltimore Felon Sentenced to Seven Years in Federal Prison for Illegal Possession of a Firearm

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett today sentenced Justin Hopkins, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, to seven years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


Peterson, Costa Comment on Implementation of Farm Bill Animal Health Programs

News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California issued statements Monday afternoon following USDA’s announcement of implementation by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of animal health programs authorized by the 2018 Farm Bill.


‘Halo Bandit’ Bank Robbers Sentenced to Combined 35 Years in Federal Prison

News Release: Two bank robbers who led police on a wild chase across the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex earlier this year have been sentenced to a combined 35 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.


News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming announced today that it plans to offer 169 oil and gas lease parcels totaling about 174,148 acres at its December 2019 quarterly lease sale.


News Release: McAllen, TX-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement at the conclusion of an official visit to El Salvador and Honduras...


News Release: (Linville Falls, NC) - On Friday, August 9, 2019, at approximately 6:28 p.m., National Park Service dispatchers received a report of a single motor vehicle accident near Milepost 306 at the Grandfather Mountain Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway.