News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today the recent unsealing of a federal grand jury indictment charging twenty-two defendants in Operation Jellystone, an extensive federal, state, and local investigation aimed at dismantling a large-scale cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine trafficking network based in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, with suppliers in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and Colton, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Andres Fernandez (37, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One former resident of Coraopolis, PA, has plead guilty to a federal narcotics charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Bobbie Brown will be the second Artist In Residence at Bighorn Canyon this year. She will be in the park from August 19 to September 2. Bobbie will be at the Lovell Visitor Center on August 22 and 29th from 3pm to 5pm. She will be painting and giving demonstrations on her painting style and invites visitors and local artists to bring their paints and sketch books and join her. She will also share some basic watercolor and sketching techniques.
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: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd Robinson (619) 546-7994 and Kareem Salem (619) 546-8904.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Norfolk man with the armed robbery of a Sprint Store in Colonial Heights.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: The Eisenhower Show Barn, located on Farm 2 of Eisenhower National Historic Site has reopened the public. Preservation work is still on going at the structure, but it is now safe for visitors to visit. The Show Barn, built to house Eisenhower’s award-winning Black Angus show cattle in the 1950s is open...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Davien Major Ewing, a/k/a Fat Boy, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to eight years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. His three co-conspirators were previously sentenced to between 18 and 174 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Thornton Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Curtis Dale Sawyer, 53, of Chico, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez, to four years in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that David Milliner, 50, of Philadelphia, PA entered a plea of guilty today before United States District Court Judge Petrese Tucker to four counts of online enticement of a minor, six counts of manufacturing/attempted manufacturing of child pornography, four counts of receipt of child pornography, one count of transfer of obscene material to a minor, and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that James Michael Papazian, 31, of West Hills, California, was sentenced today to 292 months’ (24.3 years) for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual or pure methamphetamine. Following his prison term, Papazian will serve five years on supervised release. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard presided over this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady and U.S. Attorney’s Office employees will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at locations across western Pennsylvania from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Defendants Sentenced to Between 18 Months and Over 14 Years in Federal Prison; Law Enforcement Recovered Guns and Enough Fentanyl to Kill Over 350,000 People.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Everett, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on various counts related to firearms stolen from the National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch (NFAD), United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management will replace a culvert at the Lump Gulch crossing on Sheep Mountain Road near Clancy beginning Aug. 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a federal jury handed down a guilty verdict on all counts against a former Fort Polk U.S. Army soldier who sexually abused a minor beginning when the minor was under the age of 12 years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: Cesar Altieri Sayoc was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison in connection with his mailing of 16 improvised explosive devices to victims across the country. SAYOC pled guilty to a 65-count Superseding Information on March 21, 2019, before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Jeffrey West announces that permits for temporary duck blinds will be available at the Harkers Island Visitor Center beginning Friday, Aug. 23, 2019, from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., and thereafter Monday through Friday, except holidays.
