News published on Federal Newswire in February 2019

News from February 2019


News Release: Three Defendants Face 18 Years in Prison.


Cedar Rapids Man Sentenced to Nearly Four Years in Federal Prison for Unlawfully Possessing Four Guns

News Release: Law Enforcement Search Uncovered Cache of Firearms, Ammunition, and Marijuana in a Home on Mount Vernon Road.


Sixteen Previously Deported Aliens Charged With Illegal Reentry

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that sixteen previously deported aliens were indicted separately on January 16 and 30, 2019, by a federal grand jury for illegal reentry into the United States. These matters arose in counties throughout the District including Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lackawanna, Lebanon, and York.


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A California man pleaded guilty Monday to driving more than 29 pounds of methamphetamine to Kansas, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.


News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Caryl, 26, of Silver Springs, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to produce child pornography, was sentenced to serve 200 months in prison and 20 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.


News Release: Mesa Verde National Park is planning to implement a prescribed fire between February 4 to March 29, 2019, weather permitting. The Chapin Mesa area prescribed fire is being conducted to dispose of material created during fuel reduction projects from this summer.


Myrtle Beach Man Pleads Guilty To Selling Heroin and Cocaine “Speedball” That Caused Overdose Death

News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that James Latron Sumter, a/k/a “T", age 35, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has pled guilty in federal court to conspiring to distribute a quantity of cocaine and heroin, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury or death. This charge potentially carries a mandatory sentence of 20 years to life in federal prison.


U.S. Attorney Recognizes the Service and Sacrifice of Law Enforcement

News Release: Richard W. Moore, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, takes time to stop, remember, and recognize all federal, state and local law enforcement officers and pay tribute to their service and sacrifice. Law enforcement has the difficult and dangerous task of making our communities safer, while placing their own lives and well-being at risk.


News Release: Jan. 31, 2019 Aurora Bank Robbery.


News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of TONY LENDELL REED, 32, of Memphis, Tennessee, for robbery. Following a five-day trial before U.S. District Judge Joan N. Ericksen, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a federal jury found REED guilty on Feb. 1, 2019, of six counts...


Armed Drug Trafficker From New Hanover County Receives More Than 11 Years in Prison

News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced TONY MCNEIL, 28, of New Hanover County to 135 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.


News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Larry Lewis Hudson, 46, of Sandy, Oregon, was sentenced today to 220 months in federal prison for the attempted enticement of children online and possession and distribution of child pornography. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Hudson will be on supervised release for 20 years...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Rep. Jim Jordan, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee; Senator Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Rep. Sam Graves, Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; and Rep. Mark...


News Release: BOISE - Juan Diego Garnica, 32, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced last Thursday in U.S. District Court to 78 months in prison, followed by five years’ supervised release, for distributing methamphetamine and possessing an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Garnica was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill.


News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Hampton woman pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft for stealing over $21,000 from an elderly client.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former bank teller in Leavenworth pleaded guilty Monday to embezzling more than $125,000, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.


Willard Man Pleads Guilty to Meth Conspiracy

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Willard, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.


News Release: Salt Lake City, UT - U.S. Marshal Matthew D. Harris, District of Utah, announces the extradition of fugitive Efren Ortiz-Gonzalez, on January 30th, 2019.


Grassley, Wyden Invite 7 Major Pharmaceutical Companies to Drug Pricing Hearing

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today invited seven major pharmaceutical companies to testify before a committee hearing on Feb. 26, 2019, on drug pricing in the United States, the second in a series of hearings examining prescription drug costs.


News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 34-year-old Laredoan, has been ordered to federal prison for a carjacking and for possessing a firearm during a crime of violence which occurred in Special Agent in Charge Fred Milanowski of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Rodrigo Garza-delaCruz pleaded guilty June 19, 2018.