News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Western WY - Teton Interagency fire managers and staff are busy responding to fire incidents locally, regionally and nationally. The Teton Interagency area, including Grand Teton National Park, Bridger-Teton National Forest and National Elk Refuge, has had warm temperatures, low humidity and some winds...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: A Garfield Heights woman was indicted for making a straw purchase of a firearm earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA - A Victorville man was found guilty in San Bernardino County Superior Court Friday of three counts of attempted murder and various explosives-related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that OMAR ELI PEREZ-MURCIA (“MURCIA"), age 35, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2018 to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Two Cleveland men with a history of using firearms to commit crimes were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to traffic fentanyl, heroin, cocaine and other drugs, as well as additional firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on Aug. 20, 2019, Terrance Terrell Jackson, Sr., age 40, was sentenced to seven years in prison to be followed by seven years of supervised release for sex trafficking involving force. United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Jackson.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a family farmer, will join former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) to discuss the benefits of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) for American agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Herman Murillo was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for assaulting a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier and illegally possessing ammunition as a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, Senior U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A 77 year-old Rhode Island man nicknamed “The Coin," having previously been convicted of, among other things, counterfeiting massive amounts of slugs used in slot machines in numerous gaming venues and casinos from which he is now banned, was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for counterfeiting $100 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Aug. 20, 2019, Benjamin Fowlkes, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to the armed robbery of a convenience store and the armed robbery of a bank.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - Joseph Lavern Harris, 32, of Rigby, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison, for sexual exploitation of a minor child, Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Seattle field office and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: A Garfield Heights woman was indicted for making a straw purchase of a firearm earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Kyle Leeper, 35, of Pennsylvania and Arlene Rodriguez, 35, of Almonte, California appeared today in federal court in Syracuse on an indictment charging them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine, and firearms offenses, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Project Parkersburg defendants pled guilty to federal methamphetamine charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Todd Land, 41, of Phoenix, Arizona pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Marshall Polan, 31, of Parkersburg, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Robert J. Bell, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’s Chicago Field Division, and Scott C. Blader, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Anderson, 38, of Centerville, Minnesota was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 16, by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 90 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine. Anderson pleaded guilty to this charge on April 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Chicopee man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to his role in a cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: Three inmates at the Milan Correctional Facility in Milan, Michigan, were charged in an indictment unsealed today with first degree premediated murder in the death of a fellow inmate, conspiracy to commit first degree premeditated murder and assault with intent to commit murder, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ) invites the public to a wild horse adoption event this weekend at the Western Idaho Fair, 5610 Glenwood St., in Boise on Aug. 25, from 1 - 2 p.m. Since the end of June, youths representing four different 4-H Clubs have trained their mustangs to lead, load in a horse trailer and pick up their feet. They will demonstrate these trained skills during a trail challenge on Aug. 23 at 6 p.m.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news the Trump Administration plans to terminate the Flores settlement agreement to allow it to indefinitely detain migrant children and families...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Project Parkersburg defendants pled guilty to federal methamphetamine charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Todd Land, 41, of Phoenix, Arizona pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Marshall Polan, 31, of Parkersburg, pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine.
