News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Air travelers planning to fly from Augusta, Savannah or Brunswick could receive an unwelcome reminder if they attempt to illegally carry a firearm on board.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kevin Connell, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to bank robbery. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced SHEILA RUFFIN, 51, of Rocky Mount, to thirty days of imprisonment followed by two years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Portland, OR - Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon/Washington State Office today issued a new policy to limit fire risk from power lines 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 10, 2019, former fugitive Stanley Simms was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard to 96 months in prison, to be followed by 40 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Building on the Trump Administration’s ongoing efforts to reduce the threat of wildfires through active management, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arizona State Office today issued a new policy to limit fire risk from power lines 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced SPENCER LAMONT BRYANT, 33, of Shallotte, NC, today. BRYANT was sentenced to 210 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that the 2020 Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) application process for Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and Wright Brothers National Memorial is now open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief financial officer (CFO) of a Sussex County retail construction company was arrested today for defrauding the company and several lenders, including by embezzling millions of dollars for his own personal benefit, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Richard Bernard Grundy, III, 30, Indianapolis, was sentenced today in federal court, by U.S. District Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson, to life in federal prison. Grundy was convicted of drug-trafficking and money laundering following a three-week jury trial in August of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA -Three defendants who own and operate an Atlanta pharmacy have been convicted by a jury of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that targeted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (“WIC") program. Each defendant was convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X," age 40, of Elkton, Maryland, on federal charges of using a website to promote and conduct his prostitution business, sex trafficking of a minor, production of child pornography, and interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court yesterday, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced CHARLES JUNIOR ANDERSON, 55, of Little River, South Carolina, to 55 months’ imprisonment, followed by a 3 year term of supervised released.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: The National Park Service closed the western portion of parking for Indiana Dunes National Park’s Lakeview picnic area today. The closure is due to dangerous conditions resulting from recent erosion to the beach at that location. Access to the beach from Lakeview is also...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The culmination of a four-year investigation resulted in a member of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel being sentenced on Dec. 6, 2019 to 180 months in federal prison for narcotics and weapons violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Jehiel Peña-Estrada pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine yesterday in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Athens and Columbus, Georgia governments were awarded significant federal funding to support their efforts combatting drugs and crime, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: FLANDREAU, S.D., Dec. 12, 2019 - Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development South Dakota State Director Julie Gross announced USDA has invested $9.5 million in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve e-Connectivity for more than 1,750 homes in rural South Dakota. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -Clinton Moses, Jr., 51, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to serve 6 months in prison and 6 months of home confinement for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans. Moses was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $30,000.
