News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 22, while being processed for release from DHS custody, a 24-year-old Honduran woman went into premature labor and delivered a stillborn baby at the Port Isabel Detention Center (PIDC).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Texas man was caught with a loaded gun at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) Saturday, Feb. 23 after a Transportation Security Administration officer spotted it in the man’s carry-on bag at one of the airport checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former bank teller who paid back the money she embezzled from a Leavenworth savings and loan was sentenced Monday to two years on federal supervised release, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A former Brinks, Inc., driver has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for his role in staging a pair of armored-car robberies in 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: West Glacier, MT - In 2019, Glacier National Park expects to move forward with several planning documents to improve visitor experiences in the park as well as support and maintain critical park infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jarod Arthur Blakney, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months incarceration for cocaine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: GUSTAVUS, Alaska-The public comment period for proposed changes to the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve compendium runs Feb. 25, 2019, through March 25, 2019 to 10 pm Alaska Daylight Savings Time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Jemone Lawrence Walker (33, Jacksonville) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison, for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found Walker guilty on June 7, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man with prior felony convictions for child pornography was sentenced in federal court today for receiving child pornography over the Internet.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Just as a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, the deformations and fractures that cause catastrophic failure in materials begin with a few molecules torn out of place. This in turn leads to a cascade of damage at increasingly larger scales, culminating in total mechanical breakdown. That...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - A Clay County man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Timothy Fields, 40, of Procious, pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms. The investigation was conducted by the Jackson County Probation Office, Clay County Sheriff’s Department, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans woman pled guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Amy Wilkinson, 44, of St. Albans, West Virginia, entered her guilty plea to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department STOP Team and the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Today, Anthony Marion, a/k/a “Bird," 33, and Lauren Nicole Martinez, a/k/a “Nikki," 30, both from St. Charles, Missouri, entered guilty pleas related to heroin distribution that resulted in death from the use of such heroin. Marion pleaded guilty to one count of distributing heroin resulting...
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the announcement that the UK government will proscribe Hizballah as a terrorist organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Defendant previously deported after serving sentence on federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Today, U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Javier Beltran, 25, of Strathmore, to 23 years in prison for his conviction for two counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and he sentenced Ulises Medina, 25, of Earlimart, to 15 years in prison for his conviction for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott and Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: (HAVRE, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) North Central Montana District is renewing grazing permits and leases for 103 grazing allotments in the Bears Paw to Missouri River Breaks planning area. This planning area contains 103,741 acres of public land mainly located in the southern portion of Phillips, Blaine and Chouteau counties and administered by the BLM’s Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and Havre Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 25, 2019, United States District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier, District of South Dakota, sentenced Daylin Takendrick St. Pierre, age 21, Spirit Lake Indian Reservation, ND, after he pled guilty in November 2018, to serve...
