News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Arlen Flores, 49, a Honduran national and a permanent United States resident living in Cherokee, N.C., was sentenced to six years in prison for sexual contact with a minor. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger presided over the sentencing hearing.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Today, National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Regional Director Robert A. Vogel announced the selection of Thomas Forsyth as the new superintendent of Big Cypress National Preserve, located in southern Florida. Forsyth will begin his new assignment at the preserve this fall.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Attorney General Steve Marshall Announces Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely Indicted on Theft and Ethics Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A Pine Bluff man pleaded guilty today to mailing white powder to United States Senator Tom Cotton’s office. Henry Goodloe, 77, entered his guilty plea earlier today before United States District Judge Kristine G. Baker.
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 Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition today, dubbed Rust Busters. This competition is stage 2 of a long-term corrosion protection competition that seeks new, improved or lower-cost solution that can be prototyped to better protect steel structures from corrosion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Timothy Jason McCoy, 47, of Cherokee, N.C. was sentenced to today to 51 months in prison and four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Chris Krebs speech today releasing the agency’s Strategic Intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Keycon Deonte Keitt, age 32, of Orangeburg, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Following the term of imprisonment, Keitt will remain on federal supervised release for an additional three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: What would you see and hear at the Villages? Find out at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site on Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019 from 1-5pm CT. Join Native linguists as they speak Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and Plains Indian Sign Language. Each segment will cover the origins, formations/pronunciations, and common words.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The ex-wife of an MCI-Cedar Junction inmate was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Division announced that Bill K. Kapri, a/k/a “Kodak Black," a/k/a “Dieuson Octave," 22, of Pompano Beach...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced TIM THACKER, 56, of Raeford, North Carolina, to 480 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for the armed robbery of a grocery store in Boston’s North End.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - The U.S. Attorney’s Office will not seek federal charges in the death of Henny Scott, a 14-year-old Lame Deer girl whose body was found on Dec. 28, 2018 on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation. After a thorough investigation by the FBI and Bureau of Indian Affairs, the office has determined it cannot prove any federal crime was committed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALLAN MANN, JR., also known as “Hailee Randolph DeSouza" and Hailey R. DeSouza," 66, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to a false statement offense related to his living in the U.S. under an assumed name for approximately 30 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child was sentenced on Aug. 19, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A researcher at the University of Kansas (KU) was indicted today on federal charges of hiding the fact he was working full time for a Chinese university while doing research at KU funded by the U.S. government.
