News from June 2019
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Brookline, MA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 24,100 visitors to John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site in 2018 spent $1.4 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 19 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2.0 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A north suburban businessman has been indicted on bank fraud and identity theft charges for allegedly fraudulently obtaining millions of dollars in mortgage and vehicle loans and using stolen identities to secure credit from financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JACQUELINE M. BATISTE a/k/a Jacqueline Batiste Francois, age 48, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday for Misappropriation of Postal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1711.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Riverside, California, man today admitted transporting large amounts of heroin and fentanyl from California to New Jersey for distribution in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito; Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division;...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial, in partnership with Outer Banks Forever, First Flight Foundation, and First Flight Society, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with a series of events from July 18-20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Daniel Edward Johnson, 48, former Fifth Circuit Solicitor and resident of Blythewood, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: An Akron man was indicted for illegally having a 9 mm handgun converted into an illegal machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, woman formerly employed by the Hudson County Office on Aging was charged today with accepting bribes for referring patients in need of home health care aides, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: *********** MEDIA ADVISORY ***********. FEDERAL & CINCINNATI LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ANNOUNCE ARREST OF CINCINNATI POLICE CAPTAIN. CINCINNATI - Tomorrow the government in conjunction with the Cincinnati Police Department will announce the arrest of a Cincinnati Police Captain, who is being charged federally.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Jerry Romero, 64, of Milton was sentenced by Judge William K. Sessions III to 90 months of imprisonment to be followed by four years of supervised release. Romero had previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute both heroin and 28 grams or more of cocaine base and agreed to the 90-month sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - The Steam Vents parking lot in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will be closed Monday, June 10 from 8 a.m. to noon as park staff continue efforts to eradicate little fire ants (LFA) from the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Gary Lynn Ward, 51, of St. Charles, Missouri, was sentenced on Wednesday by United States District Judge Terry Doughty to serve 18 months in prison. Ward pleaded guilty on March 6, 2019, to an indictment charging him with failure to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of the East Side Money Gang (ESMG) was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on racketeering, drug trafficking and firearms trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Angel M. Melendez, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and Troy Miller, Director, Field Operations, New York, U.S.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston arrested 32 during a 5-day enforcement surge, from May 19-23rd, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Ramiro Tzul, 27, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr. to “time served" (or 121 days of federal imprisonment), followed by one year of supervised release, for the unlawful reentry by an alien after removal, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., area man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN SILVA, 38, of Stratford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to seven months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for preparing numerous false federal income tax returns. Judge Shea also ordered Silva to serve 45 days in home confinement and perform 80 hours of community service while on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyler Taylor, 28, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 35 years in prison and a $2,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A Maumee man was indicted for attempting to coerce what he believed to be a 14-year-old girl to engage in sexual activity.
