News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: On July 19, 2019, Los Angeles resident Philip Righter, 42 years old, was arrested on fraud and identity theft charges in connection with a scheme to sell forged artworks by prominent contemporary artists. He was indicted on charges of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal robbery laws, using a firearm during a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Byron Keith Goines, age 25, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of theft of firearms from a federal firearms licensee’s inventory, in connection with the burglary of a Halethorpe, Maryland gun dealer on Jan. 21, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Laurel man accused of providing at least 15 pounds of methamphetamine for distribution in the community as part of a large trafficking organization was sentenced today to six and one-half years in prison and five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Court accepted guilty pleas this week from three defendants in the.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Laurel man accused of providing at least 15 pounds of methamphetamine for distribution in the community as part of a large trafficking organization was sentenced today to six and one-half years in prison and five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Leanos and others imported meth from Mexico, and distributed nearly 50 pounds of meth in the Lyon County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - United States Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen and United States Attorney David L. Anderson announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged nine defendants, many members of the same family, with engaging in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. The charges were made in a complaint filed July 26, 2019, and unsealed today following the arrest of eight defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - One of the two Jefferson County Jail escapees in Arkansas being sought by the U.S. Marshals has been apprehended. Late Thursday morning, Wesley Gullett, 30, was apprehended by Chief David Dalrymple with the Dover, Arkansas, Marshal’s Office (NOT part of the U.S. Marshals Service) near the Ozark National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Alan Neal, a 2nd degree murder suspect, was arrested in Memphis earlier today by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Task Force. The Task Force was assisted by the Shelby County Sheriff’s Fugitive Apprehension Team and the Memphis Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: MACON - A Macon man was sentenced to 220 months in prison today after admitting he conspired to possess with intent to distribute nearly one kilo of methamphetamine, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Donald Frederick Meeks, 36, of Macon, Georgia...
By State Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Washington-In response to the steps India has taken to revise the status of Jammu and Kashmir, Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senator Bob Menendez, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Little Rock, AR - The U.S. Marshals are offering rewards of $10,000 and $5,000 for information leading to the apprehension of two escapees from Jefferson County Jail in Arkansas.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) executed multiple federal criminal search warrants at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing HSI worksite enforcement criminal investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Coleman Warnock and Adrian Banks have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to manufacture and possess phencyclidine, a psychedelic controlled substance commonly known as “PCP" and “angel dust," with intent to distribute. The concealed drug lab they operated in Fulton County exploded in July 2013, and burned for two days.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ALEX MILLER, age 37 and LARRY DAVIS, age 40, both from Washington Parish, Louisiana pled guilty to heroin and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: Clive, IA - The Southern Iowa Fugitive Task Force (SIFTF) - a multi-agency team of law enforcement officers tasked with locating and arresting violent fugitives in the Southern District of Iowa - arrested a homicide suspect in Clive Thursday afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: WELLFLEET, Mass. - Cape Cod National Seashore is pleased to welcome back the Cape Symphony for a free outdoor concert at 7 pm on Friday, August 23 at the outdoor amphitheater at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham. This is the fourth year that the symphony has performed at the national seashore, an enduring legacy of the 2016 National Park Service Centennial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Hollywood.
