News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to illegally reentering the United States after being deported and participating in a money laundering conspiracy that laundered or attempted to launder between $150,000 and $250,000 worth of drug sales proceeds.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Congressman Ami Bera M.D. (D-CA-7), and Congresswoman Katie Hill (D-CA-25) introduced the Affordability is Access Act (AAA), legislation to make sure over-the-counter birth control is affordable and accessible for women across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anthony Fields, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 16 years in prison stemming from his leadership role in a large-scale narcotics conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Division of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - A Humboldt man has been sentenced to federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging VANCE COLLINS, a/k/a “Big AK," 50...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office has developed and launched a drug prevention initiative. Speaking today at Turning Point, located at 179 North Winooski Avenue, Burlington, Vermont, U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan described the initiative and played the accompanying Public Service Announcement (PSA) and documentary...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Kula, Maui- On June 20, 2019, the Hōlua backcountry camping area of Haleakalā National Park will temporarily close overnight to control non-native Argentine ants. Hōlua is located along the Halemau’u Trail within the Summit District of Haleakalā National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The former president of the village of Posen pleaded guilty in federal court today to charges he embezzled money from the south suburb and spent it at casinos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: FBI Agents find over 200,000 of images during course of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Kimberly Dues (37, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to disaster assistance fraud involving fraudulently obtained FEMA benefits. She faces up to 30 years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the United States in the amount of $32,038. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was indicted today in federal court in Worcester on drug and identity theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: MACON - Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced today that multiple federal search warrants were executed in Grady and Thomas Counties on June 12, 2019 in a joint law enforcement operation involving DEA, GBI, Grady County SO, Thomas County SO, Thomas Vice/Narcotics Squad and Cairo PD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Sharalyn McClain, 28, a former Mississippi Department of Corrections officer, for using excessive force against an inmate at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. The indictment charges McClain with a felony civil rights offense for her role in the assault of the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: - About 61.6% of men (74.7 million men) age 15 and over are fathers, and of those, 72.2 million men have a biological child, according to a new Men’s Fertility and Fatherhood: 2014 report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. More than one in four men have a biological child under the age of 18. Of the men with biological children under age 18, four out of five live with at least some of those minor children.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service today announced the designation of Buffalo National River as an International Dark Sky Park (IDSP). Buffalo National River, the 26th National Park Service site to receive this designation and the first in Arkansas, has some of the darkest skies in Arkansas, The Natural State.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Andres Barrientos-Flores, 33, an illegal alien from El Salvador, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to unlawful return of an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans, and Gregory K. Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Christopher Lamar Smith, 34, of St. Louis, was sentenced to 26 months in prison for bank fraud, misuse of a social security number, and fraudulent use of identification documents. Smith appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel who ordered him to pay $24,852 in restitution to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: A seven-count indictment was unsealed charging a Canton man with using a firearm to traffic heroin, fentanyl, methamphetamine and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2019
News Release: For Production and Possession Of Child Pornography.
