News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 26 indictments charging 27 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Jeramie Lee McSweeney, 39, of Lenoir, N.C., to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for the 2015 robbery of a jewelry store, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. McSweeney was also ordered to pay $176,400 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - After a four-day jury trial, Rafael Soler-Montalvo was found guilty of attempted sexual enticement of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. United States District Court Chief Judge Gustavo A. Gelpí presided over the trial.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Just two years ago, Tropical Storm Harvey changed our community. Many of the people who were impacted by this storm’s unprecedented rains and record flooding have just started putting those experiences in the past. Fortunately, damage to the facilities at Big Thicket National Preserve was minimal. The natural environment of Southeast Texas adapts well to these extreme weather events, but the human infrastructure we build is less flexible.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Sentences. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced RAYMOND LEE NORCUTT, Jr., 35, with no fixed residence, on Aug. 19, 2019 for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Norcutt was arrested in...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Waco, Texas mother of seven was sentenced Aug. 22 to more than 12 years in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Sylacauga man to 10 years in prison for attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), released the following statements today on the Trump Administration announcing it will finally begin to automatically discharge...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: St. George, Utah - Fire management personnel continue to monitor the lightning-caused “Trumbull Fire" within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, that has now grown to 2,540 acres. The fire started on August 5, 2019 and is located in the Mt. Trumbull Wilderness where it continues to burn in...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that the Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), the South Dakota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted a joint sex trafficking operation during the 2019 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The operation began on Aug. 2, 2019, and continued through August 8, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Karanjit Singh Khatkar, 23, and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, 24, of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft for a scheme to steal bitcoin from an Oregon resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: The defendant, an eleven-time felon, created a dangerous situation for law enforcement and the community.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to serve local communities through the management of sustainable, working public lands, the Bureau of Land Management has analyzed a proposed bentonite mining expansion project in Big Horn County. The environmental assessment will be available for public review and comment through Sept. 20, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Had Approximately 20 Felony Convictions from Florida Over Past Three Decades.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man agreed to plead guilty today to sending a series of violent and threatening e‑mails to a Massachusetts professor and to a professional school at the university where the professor teaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Puente-Chavez deported three times including twice in 2017. Rodriguez-Hernandez arrested in Iowa 17 days after being deported to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: City of Detroit Police Officer Michael Mosley, 47, of Detroit, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on two counts of bribery for taking $15,000 in cash bribes from a drug trafficker, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Twenty people have been charged for their roles as members, associates, and suppliers of a drug-trafficking conspiracy that distributed cocaine and crack cocaine in the Monmouth County, New Jersey, area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admitted Causing Up To $3.5 Million In Losses To Victims.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration announced today that it has begun verbally advising travelers who present non-compliant licenses of the upcoming REAL ID requirement and enforcement date. Beginning Oct. 1, 2020, each traveler must present a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license...
