News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation awarded the Protectors of Tule Springs with the George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service Aug. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Stephen Padnes, M.D., 77, of Glenside, Pennsylvania, a physician formerly licensed in Pennsylvania, was charged by Indictment with illegally distributing controlled substances and filing false tax returns (the “Indictment").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Company Ordered to Pay $2.1 Million in Fine and Restitution, Enters Probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - This afternoon, “Fugitive of the Week," Louis Tobin, 32, was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals out of the Burlington, Vermont office. Tobin was being sought on a federal escape warrant. Tobin had been serving part of his federal sentence at a Manchester, NH half-way house for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin when he fled the facility on Aug. 15, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Sarcoxie, Missouri man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing firearms, including a machine gun.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Aug. 29, 2019 - Surplus wood in Sequoia National Park will be made available by permit to the public beginning today. Firewood permits are free, and must be obtained before wood can be removed. There is a limit of six cords per family per year. Approximately 12 cords in the Dorst Woodlot will be available on a first-come first-served basis until the supply is gone.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 27-year old resident of Norcross, Georgia, has entered a guilty plea for conspiracy and importation of nearly 40 kilograms of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores, along with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS), are meeting this week in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management-San Luis Valley Field Office will be hosting the 12 Hours of Penitence Mountain Bike Race on Sept. 14, 2019. A 16.5-mile endurance race, this event will be held at Penitente Canyon Special Recreation Management Area.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Two gang members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood have been sentenced to decades in prison in separate criminal cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Marsawn Daggins, of Southfield, Michigan, was sentenced today to eight months incarceration for her involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Kevin Dean McCoy, 28, of Tucson, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. Silvester Ruelas, 50, of Peoria, Ariz., was previously sentenced to 20 years in prison. Two other co-defendants, Amber Worrell and Peggy Gomez, were sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Daniel Flores-Ventura, a/k/a “Necio," age 26, of Aspen Hill, Maryland, today to 30 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for his participation in the racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including a murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth R. Beckner, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 92 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that JAMES FARRELL, 55, of East Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - United States Attorney Davis C. Weiss announced that Carl D. Roy, 34, of Wilmington, Delaware pled guilty today to gun and drug offenses before the Honorable Maryellen Noreika, U.S. District Judge for the District of Delaware. Judge Noreika immediately sentenced Roy to 9.5 years in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Cedar Rapids, IA - U.S. Attorney Peter. E. Deegan, Jr. will meet with fellow members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Subcommittee on Native American Issues (NAIS) in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, in order to discuss public safety and law enforcement issues that impact Native American and Alaska Native communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man and a Bronx, New York, man have been sentenced for their respective roles in a 2018 scheme in which a minor was advertised and provided for commercial sex acts, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Bradley Mascho, age 53, of Frederick, Maryland, to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit securities fraud and for making a false statement. Judge Xinis also ordered Mascho to pay restitution of $4,824,131.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: A former medical student who sold two guns to a felon and tried to pay for a murder with a machine gun was sentenced today to more than seven years in federal prison.
