News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Big Hazard street gang was sentenced today to 156 months in federal prison for orchestrating and executing the nighttime firebombing of African-American families at the Ramona Gardens Housing Development in Boyle Heights in 2014 in order to force the residents out of their homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of MICHAEL WAYNE WHITEFEATHER, 18, to 264 months in prison for murder in the second degree. WHITEFEATHER, who pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2018, was sentenced today by Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man who was in a vehicle that led police officers in a pursuit was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Warren man is facing 10 years to life in federal prison after admitting to charges that he enticed a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and that he possessed and distributed child pornography, announced United States Attorney Aaron L. Weisman, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police Colonel James M. Manni, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Peter C. Fitzhugh.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Montecito man pleaded guilty today to one felony count of wire fraud for defrauding investors by making false promises to use their money purchase shares of Facebook and Twitter prior to the companies’ initial public offerings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY STATON, 24, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegal gun possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Christopher Clough, 45, of Dover, New Hampshire was sentenced to 48 months for participating in a scheme in which he received kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful fentanyl spray to patients in violation of federal law.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Gettysburg, PA - A new waterline will be installed in the Gettysburg National Cemetery over the next few weeks. This new waterline will replace a waterline that was first installed in 1939. The new line will be installed directly above the old line and there is no expected concern of impacts to burials or any other underground resource. All excavation work will be monitored by an NPS archaeologist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that on Friday, May 31, 2019, District Judge Richard G. Andrews sentenced Zahid Aslam, age 46, of Newark, Delaware, to a 30-month prison sentence for making a false statement to a financial institution. The Court also ordered Aslam to serve three years of supervised release following his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CARL J. HURST, age 35, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty Friday, May 31, 2019 to one count of conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of a fentanyl analogue and 100 grams or more of heroin. HURST is facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, a maximum sentence of life, a possible fine of up to $10,000,000, and at least five years of supervised release upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eddy Steven Sandoval Lopez, 23, a Nicaraguan national residing in Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management released a preliminary plan for public review that addresses sedimentation issues at North Sand Creek in Jackson County, Colo. The Colorado Water Quality Commission recently listed the creek as “impaired" under the Clean Water Act, citing erosion from off-highway vehicles operating in the tributary as the primary cause.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement after reports today that security forces violently attacked a peaceful protest camp in front of the Sudan’s military headquarters in Khartoum:
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - COLIN ANDREW DAVIS, 33, of Oklahoma City, has pleaded guilty to tampering with fentanyl and ketamine vials while working as a paramedic for an emergency air evacuation company, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. Troester.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 354 to 58 vote, legislation to provide relief and recovery assistance for Americans affected by hurricanes, typhoons, wildfires, and other recent natural disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A man with citizenship in Lebanon and the United States was arrested this morning after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on charges of transporting visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: The 2018 National Park Service Visitor Spending Effects Report estimates that 1.2 million visitors spent $54.9 million in the region while visiting Buffalo National River last year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management will host public meetings to discuss its initial environmental analysis of the Moneta Divide Oil and Gas Development Project in central Wyoming. The meetings will be held on June 18 in Riverton and June 19 in Casper.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ralph Wray, 36, previously pled guilty to an indictment charging him with possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
