News published on Federal Newswire in June 2019

News from June 2019


Federal Grand Jury Indictments Announced

News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the June 2019 Federal Grand Jury B.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOHN ANTHONY MARSH, age 55, of Atlanta, Georgia pled guilty yesterday to a one-count bill of information charging him with identity theft in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(7).


News Release: Kelly Thornton (619) 546-9726. NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - June 13, 2019. SAN DIEGO - Margaret E. Hunter admitted in federal court today that she and her husband, U.S. Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, knowingly and willfully used campaign funds as their personal bank account for years, spending lavishly on things they...


News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison and 25 years of supervised release for attempting, and conspiring, to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman for the Southern District of Ohio, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and Special Agent in Charge Todd A. Wickerham of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division made the announcement.


News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jesse Turnmire, 30, Bangor, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson, to five years in federal prison, for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Turnmire pleaded guilty to this charge on March 15, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.


R.I. Businessman Admits Selling Misbranded Drugs

News Release: 500,000 capsules of male sexual enhancement supplement nets more than $1M in sales.


Boston Man Charged With Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with trafficking fentanyl.


Justice Department Announces New Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force

News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the establishment of the Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Department of Justice’s Consumer Protection Branch, the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for six...


Bishop Statement on Forest Service’s Proposed NEPA Revisions

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released the following statement commending the actions taken by U.S. Forest Service to revise the agency’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Sarcoxie, Missouri man who was earlier charged with illegally possessing firearms and ammunition has been indicted by a federal grand jury on additional charges of illegally possessing an unregistered silencer and selector switches to convert semi-automatic firearms into machine guns.


News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A Shreveport man was sentenced on Wednesday to serve time in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph.


Louisiana Man Sentenced for Conspiring to Violate the Federal Housing Rights of Woman with Disabilities

News Release: WASHINGTON - Jody Lambert, 24, was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Louisiana to 120 months imprisonment for conspiring with members of his family to prevent D.P., a woman with cognitive disabilities, from exercising her right to rent and occupy a dwelling without injury, intimidation, and interference because of her cognitive disabilities.


July 2019 Events at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park

News Release: Note to editors: High-resolution public domain photos are available in the park’s Flickr album.


News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 180 months in prison and 25 years of supervised release for attempting, and conspiring, to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman for the Southern District of Ohio, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers and Special Agent in Charge Todd A. Wickerham of the FBI’s Cincinnati Division made the announcement.


News Release: SOUTH BEND - Mario Ward II, age 23, of LaPorte, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. upon his plea of guilty to 2 counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.


science open house and junior ranger day 2019

News Release: Science Open House and Junior Ranger Day at Florissant Fossil Beds Saturday, June 29, 2019.


District Woman Found Guilty of Aggravated Assault While Armed for Slashing Victim’s Face at Bus Stop

News Release: Defendant Also Convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon for Menacing a Man Who Tried to Intervene.


Three Physicians and Five Marketers Charged for Violations to Federal Anti-Kickback Statutes

News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Three physicians and five marketers have been charged in U.S. District Court with violations of the federal anti-kickback statute and other criminal offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores. The men allegedly caused federal health care insurance programs to pay reimbursement costs...


Mexican citizen living in Benton sentenced for re-entering U.S. after multiple deportations and illegally possessing firearm

News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that illegal alien and felon Shandy Salgado-Almendaris, 39, a Mexican citizen living in Benton, Louisiana, was sentenced on Wednesday. Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. sentenced Salgado-Almendaris to 21 months in prison for illegally re-entering the United States after being removed and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.


News Release: DENVER - Edward Lewis, age 28, of Denver, was sentenced yesterday to serve 72 months (6 years) in federal prison, followed by 15 years on supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. Lewis was also ordered to pay $21,000 restitution to the victims depicted in the images he possessed.