News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that a Federal grand jury in Greenville has returned a three count indictment charging MORRIS COOPER, age 62 of Fayetteville, with bribery and theft of government property.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has scheduled a public scoping period for input on 79 parcels (19,277.13 acres) of federal minerals proposed for the February 2020 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The public scoping period will begin Aug. 26 and conclude on Sept. 9. The lease sale is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 6, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By State Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) issued the following statement about the upcoming expiration of the UN arms embargo on Iran and the travel ban on Qasem Soleimani, which would provide Iran with a direct path to arm terrorists and spread instability around the globe...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for taking a Hutchinson, Kan., girl across state lines for sex, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Larry A. Carr (84, Tampa) to four years in federal prison for the sale of unregistered securities. The court also ordered Carr to pay more than $8 million in restitution to his victim-investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: A 39-year-old resident of Saginaw, Michigan, Michael Lee Johnson, was convicted today of unlawful imprisonment, assault of a dating partner by strangulation, assault of a dating partner by suffocation, interstate domestic violence, assault by striking, beating, or wounding, and eight counts of witness tampering by a federal jury in Bay City, Michigan, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the following after the Trump Administration issued a new rule regarding the Flores Settlement Agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Dr. Rodolfo Gonzalez Garcia, 65, of Weston, Florida pled guilty on Aug. 23, 2019, to conspiring to dispense a controlled substance, Oxycodone, before U.S. District Judge Roy K. Altman (Case No. 19-cr-20055).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Two Queens Women Plead Guilty in Connection with Plan to Build Explosive Devices Similar to Those Used in Prior Terrorist Attacks in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Enoch B. Morelock Award. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tim Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that Lt. David Williams of the Jefferson City, Missouri, Police Department has received the 2019 Enoch B. Morelock Award. The Enoch B. Morelock Award is an annual recognition...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison for taking a Hutchinson, Kan., girl across state lines for sex, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: This Sunday, Aug. 25, join Independence National Historical Park and national parks across the United States commemorating a significant moment in American history: the landing of the first enslaved Africans in British colonial North America in August 1619. This landing took place 400 years ago at a location in Hampton, Virginia, now commemorated as part of Fort Monroe National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Yancy Todd Sonnier, 54, of Branch, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to serve 86 months in federal prison for drug and firearm charges. Sonnier pleaded guilty on Jan. 18, 2019, to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a prohibited person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Tesa Keith, 38, a former direct service provider at the San Angelo State Supported Living Center in San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for violating the civil rights of K.B., a resident at the facility, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox, and FBI Dallas Division Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Akeem Cruz, a/k/a “Vybe" and “Mello", 29, and Lamale Lawson, a/k/a “Bishop" and “King Bishop", 28, both of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Astriane Horton, 37, pled guilty today before the Honorable Danya Dayson in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia to second-degree murder while armed and two counts of obstructing justice, in the killing of his best friend, Deon Coleman, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement today reacting to the D.C. Circuit Court's decision to uphold the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) 2015 primary national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) protecting public health from ground-level ozone pollution...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - Last Thursday, Glacier County Health Department confirmed that a bat that scratched a park resident in the St. Mary area was rabid. The person is currently undergoing a series of rabies vaccinations. This was the first known case of a rabid bat in Glacier National Park this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Quincy Green a/k/a Wayne Wright, 37, of Washington, D.C. pled guilty today to a charge stemming from an incident in May 2016 in which he shot another man multiple times, causing the victim’s death. Green also pled guilty to another charge, in which he solicited the murder of the girlfriend of a potential witness for the trial of the May 2016 murder, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu announced.
