News from August 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Benedict Anthony Sena, 59, a member and resident of Acoma Pueblo, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on July 30, 2019, to a felony information charging him with two counts of abusive sexual contact of children under the age of 12 years. Sena was remanded into federal custody after entering his guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Yasmiene Raevonne Blanton, 29, of Lincoln was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf to time served (approximately four months) and placed on three years of supervised release for possessing ammunition while she was a user of and addicted to marijuana.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced three finalists for the first stage of the $250,000 Escape Respirator Challenge.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Daniel Roy Mace, 37, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for child pornography and witness tampering charges. Mace was previously convicted by a federal jury on 15 felony charges: 12 counts of receipt of child...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: EASTHAM, Mass. - Mother Nature: She was here before us and she will surely outlive us. She’s powerful, unpredictable, fragile, forgiving, and sometimes, unforgiving. Do you have a 5-minute story that illuminates your personal relationship with Mother Nature? If so, bring it to the Mosquito Story Slam...

By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - The National Park Service Intermountain Region has approved Glacier National Park’s proposal for managing NPS-owned properties at Lake McDonald.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today on Trump’s decision to levy additional tariffs on products imported from China...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HECTOR MAY, the president of Executive Compensation Planners, Inc. (“ECP"), a registered investment adviser and financial planning firm located in New City, New York, was sentenced to 13 years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Rodney Anderson, 35, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: The Ghanaian national admitted to fraudulently obtaining a U.S. passport, falsely claiming American citizenship, and illegally voting in ten federal elections as an alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Spartanburg, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Detric McGowan, aka “Fat," 46, of Piedmont, has entered a guilty plea in federal court to participating in a drug conspiracy involving cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and tramadol; possessing a kilogram or more of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that David Navarrete, age 25, of Prosser, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on March 21, 2019, to possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. Senior United States...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Damion Xavier Giglio, 34, of Saucier, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to 41 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kirk Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Giglio was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Texas Man Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LINDSEY LOPEZ, age 37, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a methamphetamine-trafficking offense. Specifically, LOPEZ pled guilty to distribution of a quantity of methamphetamine, and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine up to $1,000,000, and at least three years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Salvador Padilla III, 39, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley, to 10 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: A Fairfield, Ohio man was sentenced yesterday to 250 months’ imprisonment on charges of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today welcomed the Senate confirmation of Amy Karpel to serve on the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, along with federal, state, and local partners, announced that as a result of strategies applied to focus on the most violent neighborhoods and target those responsible for that violence, 90 defendants have been charged with federal crimes in investigations ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Fayette County man was sentenced in federal court on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin, more than 50 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine, and a quantity of oxycodone. Eric...