News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Leamzy Soto Calderon, aka “Lee" and “Gordo," 28, of Schenectady, New York, and Gregory Insogna, 45, of Amsterdam, New York, pled guilty on Friday and today, respectively, to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Grant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - As the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America, Attorney General William P. Barr today announced that the city of Baltimore, Maryland was selected to join the National Public Safety Partnership...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, strongly suggests the public to be vigilant of numerous safety concerns when recreating on public lands adjacent to and north of Stead Airport in Washoe County, Nevada, due to activities related to the National Championship Air Races. This very important safety message is in the interest for both the participants and the public for the qualifying event on June 5 through June 9, 2019.
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: DENVER - Two individuals who falsified education credentials and helped applicants cheat on tests to be massage license therapists were indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. Yongbo Shen, a/k/a Kevin Shen...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - As the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Donald J. Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America, Attorney General William P. Barr today announced that the District of Alaska was selected to join the National Public Safety Partnership (PSP)...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Capitol Reef National Park will host a Youth Art Event, co-sponsored by Entrada Institute, at Ripple Rock Nature Center on Saturday June 8, 2019 from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joseph P. Kelly announced that on June 3, 2019, Senior United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Jessica Medina, of California, to a 70 month term of imprisonment, to be served in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. Medina pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess...
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: Eads, Colorado - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 6,006 visitors to Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in 2018 spent $355,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported six jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $359,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Randolph man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Driver Struck Pedestrian, Who Was Walking on Sidewalk, After Altercation.
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: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced the filing on Friday, June 3, 2019 of a one count bill of information charging QUINCY E. IRVIN, age 41 of New Orleans, Louisiana with one count of violating Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206, making false statements on an income tax return.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Tuesday, June 4, 2019, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, will hold a hearing on “Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part II): Adequacy of the Federal Response."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming’s High Plains District Office today released a final environmental assessment for coal leasing in the Wright Area of Campbell County, Wyo., in the Powder River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner sentenced Timothy B. Riley and John T. Oiler for their roles in a money laundering conspiracy involving $800,000 in drug proceeds following their separate guilty pleas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN HAZARD, also known as “Money," 42, of Cranston, Rhode Island, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Charles Spencer Named Assistant Director of the International Operations Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in connection with drug trafficking charges.
