News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 22-year-old McKinney, Texas man has been sentenced to over 20 years in federal prison for child exploitation and child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that Chief United States Judge District Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHAMON “TOE" kINSTON, 41, of New Hanover County to 90 months’ imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Wolf Point resident Desire Azkadelia Lambert, who admitted shooting a man in the chest after he left a meth deal without paying for the drug, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: HIGHLINING IS PROHIBITED. By the authority of the park manager, Highlining at City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park is temporarily prohibited as of Aug. 28, 2019. Highlining is an extreme variation of slacklining, where athletes traverse a narrow, springy band of rope suspended...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Dajuan Sharron was convicted of robbery of United States property following a three-day jury trial in federal court in Omaha before the Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. The jury returned its verdict on Aug. 28, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park staff will reopen all campgrounds on Aug. 30, 2019 in anticipation of the upcoming busy season.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Two men from West Virginia were indicted in federal court on methamphetamine charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - An associate of a former U.S. Border Patrol (BP) agent has been sentenced to for conspiring to accept money in return for helping to smuggle marijuana and other illegal drugs into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jordan Capone, age 24, of Mt. Pocono, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment on Aug. 27, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a conspiracy that forced or coerced women to engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania, and for distributing the drug known as “molly" in Monroe County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Middletown, OH - During the early afternoon hours of Aug. 27, 2019, the U.S. Marshals arrested fugitive Juan Mendez on an outstanding murder warrant from Harris County in Houston, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that Chief United States Judge District Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHAMON “TOE" kINSTON, 41, of New Hanover County to 90 months’ imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - GUSTAVO ADOLFO ACOSTA-ARENAS, age 28, was charged in federal court on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 in a one-count Bill of Information for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 22-year-old McKinney, Texas man has been sentenced to over 20 years in federal prison for child exploitation and child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams 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: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced ANTONIO DEVON WILLIAMS, 42, of Wilmington, North Carolina, to 120 months’ imprisonment, plus an additional 51 months for violating his original term of supervised release for a total of 171 months. WILLIAMS will then serve a term of 5 years of supervised released upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Natascha Sabrina Clark, 35, of Fairbanks, has been named in an 11-count federal indictment charging her with fraudulent transactions with an access device, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft. Clark was arrested on Aug. 26, 2019, and has since been ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Terrell Plummer, a/k/a Rell, age 30, of Baltimore, to 25 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a federal racketeering conspiracy related to his membership in the violent Old York Money Gang (OYMG).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Charges Filed Against Dozens in Trafficking Network Responsible for Diverting Over 23 Million Oxycodone, Hydrocodone and Carisoprodol Pills.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: Let’s play together! Salem Maritime and Saugus Iron Works National Historic Sites are continuing their popular preschool programming into late summer and early autumn. In addition, as part of Salem’s Haunted Happenings, there will be two live owl shows from Eyes on Owls for older children (ages 6 and up) and their families on Saturday, October 5 at 10:00AM and 11:30AM in St. Joseph Hall, 160 Derby Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 28, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that three previously deported aliens were indicted separately on Aug. 28, 2019, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Dauphin, Franklin, and York.
