News published on Federal Newswire in December 2019

News from December 2019


Aurora Felon Pleads Guilty To Illegally Possessing 14 Firearms Including Two Assault Rifles

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.


FBI and New Orleans Police Department Requesting the Public’s Assistance to Identify the Suspect From a Mid-City Capital One Bank Robbery

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.


Individual Sentenced to Two Consecutive Life Sentences for Carjacking and Kidnapping Resulting in Murder

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...


U.S. Attorney’s Office collects more than $14 million in civil and criminal actions in fiscal year 2019

News Release: Another $4.6 million in forfeitures collected as proceeds of crime - used to support crime victims and other law enforcement purposes.


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.


Former CEO And Former Employee Of Broker-Dealer Charged With Falsifying Books And Records, Submitting False Reports To The Securities And Exchange Commission, And Making False Statements To SEC Staff

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...


National Park to Conduct Prescribed Fire Today at Dunewood Campground

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.


Three Bay County Men Sentenced For Operating Sweepstakes Scam Targeting Elderly Victims

News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA-Three Bay County men - Delroy Williams, 52, of Lynn Haven, Vivian Walters,.


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.


Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.


News Release: Admitted Receiving Over Five Kilograms of Meth to Redistribute.


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.


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.


Injured motorcyclist rescued from Death Valley backcountry

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.


Allentown Man Sentenced To 55 Months’ Imprisonment For Drug Trafficking

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.


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...


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.


Des Moines Woman Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Possessing a Firearm as a Felon and Drug User

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.


BLM Plans Pile Burns Southeast of Powderhorn

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.


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.