News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Joseph M. Calhoun, age 34, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for one count of Passing and Uttering a Counterfeit Check of a Political Subdivision. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Calhoun to five months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Ali Jackson, age 25, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to committing a violent act in aid of racketeering, in connection with his membership in the Southside Brims gang. Co-defendant Davon Hamilton, age 20, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to the same charge on Jan. 31, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging a Madison man with robbing a Madison business at gunpoint. Christian Killian, 33, was charged in an indictment returned yesterday by a grand jury sitting in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: ALBANY - The first of two co-defendants charged in the armed robbery of an Albany bank was found guilty following a four day trial, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. A citizen jury found Kamilyah Whitlock, 25, of Albany guilty late Thursday...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Congratulations to the four participants in the Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program at Capitol Reef National Park in 2019. Each artist brings a unique talent and will share their interpretations of the park’s resources and meanings in ways that engage the public through a variety of artistic mediums such as music, painting, or photography. The goal of this program is to share artistic expression of National Parks like Capitol Reef.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Texas man was sentenced today for defrauding an Arkansas bank by creating fraudulent invoices. Matthew Beasley, 47, of McKinney, Texas, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two people are facing substantial prison sentences and fines after pleading guilty to federal heroin trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Terrest Colston (28, Polk County) today pleaded guilty to carjacking, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison for the carjacking charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the chairs of six committees in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to Attorney General William Barr to inform him of their expectation that he will make Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report public “without delay and to the maximum extent permitted by law." The letter follows news reports that suggest the Special Counsel investigation is nearing an end.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Southern District of Indiana agencies receive prestigious national award.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Feb. 22, 2019 - Travis Lamont Suggs, 43, of Nashville, Tennessee, was convicted yesterday, after a three-day trial in U.S. District Court, of distributing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-Fortine resident Roseann Robyn Kipp, who admitted stealing from two Eureka community programs, was sentenced today to eight months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $48,431 restitution, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Turtle Creek, PA has been sentenced in federal court to three years and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his convictions on a federal firearms charge, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that a federal jury convicted Andrew Munoz, 34, of Boise, of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin, distribution of heroin, and distribution of methamphetamine. The jury acquitted Munoz of a separate count of possession with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Already sentenced to prison for his role in a bomb plot, Patrick Stein, 50, of Wright, Kan., pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to an additional 44 months in federal prison for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned this week before U.S. Magistrate judges and indictments handed down by the Grand Jury were unsealed. Indictments are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Miller, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Feb. 20, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against five people who allegedly conspired to cut and remove timber from tribal forestlands on the Menominee Indian Reservation in order to sell them to saw mills outside the reservation without consent from the tribe. The indictment named.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Alexandria, Virginia pleaded guilty today to a felony charge of having fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS)-National Park Service Northeast Region (NER) Director Gay Vietzke has named Kelly Fellner as the new superintendent of Springfield Armory National Historic Site in Massachusetts. She will also administer Coltsville National Historical Park, which is in the process of being established as an NPS site.
