News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Marshals are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the capture of a man wanted in the July 2018 killing of a 10-year-old girl in D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Sean L. Kaul Named Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding Secretary of State Pompeo’s proposed Commission on Unalienable Rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Reese Moore, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiracy to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Kent, Washington, man was charged in federal district court with 50 counts of Wire Fraud, nine counts of Money Laundering, and one count of Transportation of Stolen Money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison for drug trafficking and discharging a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Latasha Long, 41, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, was found guilty last week of assaulting an employee of the Social Security Administration (SSA), announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Hot Springs, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Killdeer, North Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico is announcing a two-week public comment period on the environmental analysis for its Nov. 7, 2019 oil and gas lease sale. Sixteen parcels (7,619.46 acres) of federal minerals are proposed for lease. The parcels are located in Eddy, Lea, and Sandoval counties, New Mexico; and Dewey and Woodward counties, Oklahoma. The comment period will run from July 15-26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - - Three defendants involved in various drug offenses appeared today in federal court in Huntington. Ellis Simmons, Jr., 49, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin and prohibited possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 21-year-old local man has been ordered to federal prison for producing child pornography after exchanges on a social media site, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Thomas Anthony Garrett pleaded guilty April 3, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - A man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Harrisburg International Airport after they caught him trying to bring box cutters and a utility knife past the checkpoint on Sunday, July 7, including one artfully concealed in his shoe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A former Arkansas state senator pleaded guilty in federal court today to accepting multiple bribes in connection with a multi-district investigation spanning the Western District of Missouri and Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: NOW TAKING RESERVATIONS FOR THE NEXT "FREEDOM TRAIL HIKE," set for Saturday, July 20 from 10 am to 12 noon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: SENTENCES. Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl sentenced HAROLD WAYNE WARREN, 51, of Spearfish, South Dakota on July 1, 2019 for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Warren was arrested in Sheridan, Wyoming. He received one hundred twenty months of imprisonment, to be followed by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Yusef Payne, age 35, of Baltimore, Maryland, to nine years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal possession of a stolen firearm. Payne admitted that he had at least two previous felony convictions and was prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2019
News Release: [Washington, DC] - After Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a ruling allowing U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and more than two hundred Congressional plaintiffs to proceed with discovery in their effort ...
