News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH - Isle Royale National Park (ISRO) announces the release of the draft Cultural Resource Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (CRMP/EA) for public review and comment. The purpose of the plan is to develop a long-term comprehensive strategy for managing the non-wilderness cultural...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Justin Hiemstra, 22, from St. Paul Park, Minnesota, entered a plea of guilty before United States District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe on charges related to violations of 18 U.S.C. § 1030 for using a school computer and someone else’s username without that person’s permission in an attempt to illegally obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced that Graham Williamson pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges related to the commission of a crossburning on Oct. 24, 2017, in Seminary, Mississippi. Specifically, Williamson, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of interference with housing rights, a federal civil rights violation, and one count of conspiring to use fire to commit a federal felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Rick Swearingen, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), announced that on August 6, 2019, Shayeh Dov...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jacquolyn Walls-Land, 36, of Junction City, Kentucky pleaded guilty yesterday, before Senior United States District Judge Joseph M. Hood, to using a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Innocence Lost National Initiative and 2019 FBI Denver Operation Independence Day Results in Recovery of Child Victims from Commercial Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Guatemalan nationals Paola Valenzuela Arevalo and Herbert Jonathan Castillo Juarez, who are husband and wife, have pleaded guilty to eight federal charges for their roles in an international heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Valenzuela and Castillo employed and coordinated the operations...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former high-ranking member of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico was sentenced today to 28 years in federal prison for his role in transporting large amounts of illegal drugs to the Chicago area and throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two West Orange, New Jersey, men are charged with federal narcotics offenses after an investigation revealed a large quantity of methamphetamine and other narcotics in their residence, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Today, in a ceremony held at the Embassy Club in Des Moines, the Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative was recognized for developing innovative solutions to combat the opioid epidemic. The Eastern Iowa Heroin Initiative is funded by the Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and is a joint venture of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich will join law enforcement, community leaders, and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at the Multi-Purpose Center, 1316 Sackett St., in Las Vegas, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event. In northern Nevada, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office will host National Night Out from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Mills Park, 1111 E. William St, in Carson City.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Briha K. Younger, 25, Jenae R. Johnson, 28, both of Boston, MA, and Micaela G. Ratcliffe, 28, of Dorchester, MA, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with smuggling of goods into the United States, importation of a controlled substance, and possession of a controlled substance. The charges carry a maximum of 20 years in prison and a $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Katrina (Katie) Lynn Danforth, 32, of Post Falls, Idaho, pled guilty this week to two counts of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Danforth was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on Dec. 18, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN LAMBERT, a/k/a “Eric Pope," pled guilty this afternoon before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud consumers of legal advice and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A resident of Newark, New Jersey has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Chairman Hank Johnson (D-GA) sent a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration to request that the National Archives complete its review and release records ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - On Monday, August 5, rangers euthanized a black bear after the animal suffered an injury from a rubber projectile hazing round.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Hollywood.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Charles Elegalam, age 31, formerly of Washington, D.C., currently an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan (USP Canaan), Waymart, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on August 5, 2019, before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, to possession of contraband by inmate.
