News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Josue Balbino Ruiz-Reyes, age 25, of Adelphi, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamines and to using, carrying, brandishing and discharging a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: WHEELING - U.S. Attorney Bill Powell and his staff will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at events in Martinsburg, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, and Wheeling to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM: Pecos National Historical Park will host the annual Feast Day celebration at Pecos Pueblo on Sunday, August 11th. Join in a time honored tradition as community members from the Pueblo of Jemez and Pecos celebrate Feast Day mass inside the ruins of Our Lady of the Angels of Porciúncula (Nuestra...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing will join law enforcement, community leaders, and residents on Tuesday, August 6, at the Warren Theater parking lot in Moore from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. to celebrate National Night Out.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - United States Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Heather Downs, 33, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 38 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." She pled guilty on Oct. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Jerson Otoniel Osorio-Lopes, 32, of Guatemala, pleaded guilty and was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to time served (70 days) for being found in the United States after previously being removed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that on Aug. 1, 2019 ISAIAS MENDOZA-AILON, age 24, pleaded guilty to a one-count bill of information for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) and was sentenced thereafter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former bank branch manager at Wells Fargo pleaded guilty today to one felony count of bank fraud for using his position to help launder proceeds of a tax fraud and identity theft scheme that used false identities and bogus Republic of Armenia passports to fraudulently obtain $14 million in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Mitchell, Oregon - The Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics and its Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers team are partnering with John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. On August 30th and 31st, they will be hosting several events free and open to the public to help raise awareness on how to preserve and protect Painted Hills from excessive trash and trail erosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Norwood Jewell, the former Vice President of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (“UAW") and the highest official in the UAW’s Chrysler Department was sentenced to prison today based on his conviction for accepting bribes from high-level executives of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (“FCA" or “Fiat Chrysler"), announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Hartford, Conn. - United States Drug Enforcement New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and John H. Durham, U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Eddy Pena, 30, of Providence, Rhode Island, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 179 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar man was sentenced today after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kenneth Stover, 43, was sentenced to 34 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - Great Plains Regional Director Mike Black announced today that Jeff Rieker will succeed Signe Snortland as Eastern Colorado Area Office manager Sept. 15, 2019. Rieker will serve as the Eastern Colorado Area Manager after serving as the Operations Manager for the Central Valley Operations...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana/Dakotas raised $1.6 Million in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held online July 30, 2019. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs - in this case Montana and North Dakota - while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former owner of restaurants in Boston and Chelsea was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mauricio Vaca Bucio, 32, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to two years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tion Rector Jackson, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 51 months incarceration for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is issuing two environmental assessments prior to the field testing of vaccines to prevent and control white-nose syndrome in bats. These vaccines will be tested by the U.S. Geological Survey’s National ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Detroit, MI - U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at several locations throughout the Detroit to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at events in Cleveland, Toledo, Akron, Youngtowns and elsewhere to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
