News from December 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced today that Jeffrey Mons Olson, age 49, of Aurora, Colorado, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Olson appeared at the hearing in custody and was remanded at its conclusion. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Moore on March 19, 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: FBI and New Orleans Police Department Requesting the Public’s Assistance to Identify the Suspect From a Mid-City Capital One Bank Robbery.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. -Jorge L. Rodríguez-Santos was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for committing a carjacking that resulted in death, kidnapping resulting in death, and using a firearm during a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. On May 10, 2019...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Another $4.6 million in forfeitures collected as proceeds of crime - used to support crime victims and other law enforcement purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former loan officer at Trustmark Bank has been sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison in connection with a fraudulent loan scheme. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced that ALAN SEIDEL and BENJAMIN MEKAWAY were charged this morning with falsifying the books...

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Weather permitting, Indiana Dunes National Park plans to burn portions of the Dunewood Campground to reduce the risk of wildfire. The burn will take place today, Monday, December 23rd, and the total burn area will be approximately 75 acres. The campground is closed for the season and will reopen on April 1, 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA-Three Bay County men - Delroy Williams, 52, of Lynn Haven, Vivian Walters,.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, San Juan Resident Office was in charge of the arrest and investigation of the defendant.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Admitted Receiving Over Five Kilograms of Meth to Redistribute.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed Sergio Leonardo Ruchtein Dec. 18, to his home country of Argentina where local authorities took him into custody.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: From snow-blanketed mountains to evergreen forests dripping with rain and ocean beaches pounded by winter storms waves, there are many ways to experience winter in Olympic. Although most of the areas of the park remain accessible some facilities and park roads are closed. Before your visit, check the weather forecast and current road conditions and be prepared for rain and snow. Call 360-565-3131 for current road, campground, and weather information updated twice daily.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - National Park Service rangers and Naval Air Station China Lake worked together to rescue a man who injured his leg in a motorcycle crash east of Mengel Pass in Death Valley National Park.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Dec. 19, 2019, Malcom Wilfong, age 28, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 55 months’ imprisonment for participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Dec. 19, 2019, Ashley Alston, age 28, of Baltimore pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering charge and on Dec. 20, 2019, her father Aldon Alston, age 55 also of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the same charge, for participating in a scheme to smuggle contraband into the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - April Spring Kelly, of San Diego, was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 14 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle more than 450,000 fentanyl pills from Mexico into the United States during a nine-month period ending in October 2018.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Dec. 20, 2019, Christina Louise Stein, age 34, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger for Felon and Unlawful User of a Controlled Substance in Possession of a Firearm. Stein was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, the statutory maximum, to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct pile burns on Gunnison Field Office lands this winter. The piles are located in Saguache County 13 miles southeast of Powderhorn, CO, near Cathedral.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2019
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Patrick Teon Robinson, age 27, of Beltsville, Maryland, to 11 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The sentence was imposed on Dec. 20, 2019.