News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A grant from the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs will support the drug court program in Ellis County, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Awards Nearly $38 Million to Reduce Crime, Improve Public Safety in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Hialeah Police Officer Charged with Civil Rights Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with selling fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante found Imran Alrai, 45, of Windham, New Hampshire, guilty of wire fraud, money laundering, and transportation of stolen funds after a ten-day bench trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Dewayne Yates, 28, of Picayune, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 96 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, and a $1,500 fine, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: OCALA, Fla. - Deandre Amaad Williams, 29 of Ocala, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine, heroin and fentanyl. Williams had pleaded guilty on July 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 45-year-old international terrorist imprisoned in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has been convicted of additional offenses in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: HOPI WEAVER, DAVIS MAHO, TO VISIT MONTEZUMA CASTLE AND TUZIGOOT NATIONAL MONUMENTS.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON, MA - The Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, Massachusetts, recently sentenced Atlantic Drain Service Company Inc. owner Kevin Otto to two years imprisonment on each of two counts of manslaughter, to run concurrently, and three years of probation for witness intimidation. The court’s action...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Boise, Idaho - Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho State Office today issued a new policy to limit fire risk from powerlines crossing BLM-managed public lands. The policy provides guidance for effective vegetation management within and adjacent to electric transmission and distribution line rights-of-way, also known as ROWs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s commitment to be a good neighbor, the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science signed a Public Land Order that extends for 20 years a withdrawal from mineral location and entry to allow for continued construction, operation, and maintenance of the Diamond Fork System’s underground pipelines and tunnels that deliver water from Strawberry Reservoir to the Wasatch Front.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that JENNIFER O’BRIEN, 51, of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to failing to file federal tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vivian Marion Hairston, 37, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today for setting fire to her grandmother’s home in the Kingman Park neighborhood of Northeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Paul Leon Heathcoe, 53, of Moss Point, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kurt Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vivian Marion Hairston, 37, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today for setting fire to her grandmother’s home in the Kingman Park neighborhood of Northeast Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A previously convicted felon was sentenced today to 46 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $512,500 for defrauding investors of a local newspaper and unlawful possession of firearms by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -Timothy Carl Ling, a former FMC Lexington inmate, was sentenced in federal court to 28 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for making false allegations against prison staff and illegally possessing morphine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2019
News Release: Two former Federal Home Loan Bank executives have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to lie to the government-sponsored financial institution, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
