News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ethan Moye-Gordon, 22, of Maryland, pled guilty yesterday with respect to his participation in an armed kidnapping and robbery that began in the District of Columbia and continued into Maryland, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Charles A. Dayoub, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Division, FBI Washington Field Office, Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William Reid, age 38, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of distributing crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and James Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) announced the Subcommittee will hold a roundtable on railroad shippers. The purpose of this roundtable is to learn from railroad shippers about the challenges they face in moving commodities by rail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: MACON - A federal jury has found a convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history guilty for an illegal gun possession charge, said U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. Ronnie Lee Hughes, 39, of Griffin, Georgia was found guilty on one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon. The jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Pedro Hernandez, age 35, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on July 17, 2019, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 28 months’ imprisonment for participating in a conspiracy that transported heroin from Chicago to Carbon County and elsewhere in Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Damon Edwards, 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 18 years in prison by the Honorable Judge Paul S. Diamond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The former Chief Executive Officer of a publicly traded engine manufacturer in a northwest suburb of Chicago has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly deceiving investors about the company’s financial performance.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah),U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), U.S. Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), U.S. Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Colo.), and U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Erickson Deck, 45, of Jerseyville, Illinois, has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 16, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against a man allegedly involved in an assault that resulted in a woman sustaining serious bodily injury. The indictment named Brad L. Blackowl (age: 28) of Keshena, which is located in the Menominee Indian Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: COPPER CENTER, AK - This week plans for the 2019 federal subsistence hunt for the.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Update: Body Found in Burned Car Near Church Rock Identified.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Mahin Mojtahedzadeh, age 74, and a citizen of Iran, pled guilty today to conspiring to unlawfully export gas turbine parts from the United States to Iran.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park rangers responded Wednesday evening, July 17, to a member of a climbing group that seriously injured her leg and was unable to move. At approximately 5:40 p.m. a park ranger hiking in the Lower Garnett Canyon area was notified that a climber was injured and needed help.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly possessed and distributed images depicting the sexual abuse of girls aged 6-to-8-years-old.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Located east of the City of Las Cruces, the Soledad Canyon Day-Use Area access road and parking lot is reopened for public use. However, the public is advised to drive carefully and the posted speed limit, as road construction crews continue to work along the full length of Soledad Canyon Road and the new walking and biking path to the Day-Use Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Brian Hernandez Acosta, the lead defendant in a child sex trafficking case, has pleaded guilty to charges of conducting a child exploitation enterprise, conspiring to engage, and engaging, in sex trafficking minors by force, fraud, or coercion, sex trafficking of children under 18 years old, interstate transport of a minor for prostitution, producing child pornography, and distributing cocaine to a person under 21 years old.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: Thirteen kids had a great time at Kids' Camp on Tuesday. The five-hour camp was fun-filled with many activities. They participated in traditional games played in the Hidatsa villages. They learned about biodiversity, native and invasive plant species, and played prairie tag. This game of tag taught the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Thomas Nestor, age 41, of Ringtown, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to 47 months’ imprisonment and to serve four years on supervised release for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
