News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Investigation Dismantles One of the Most Prolific Cargo Theft Rings in FBI History.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Dalton Truax, age 19, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release, and a $2,400.00 fine for one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Harold Thomas Martin, III, age 54, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to the federal charge of willful retention of national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Michael Atkinson, 24, pleaded guilty today to kidnapping and conspiracy charges in connection with his involvement in a scheme using Grindr to target gay men for violent crimes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox and Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Reward Offered for Fugitive Wanted for Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The former Yale University women’s soccer coach pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with accepting bribes to facilitate the admission of students to Yale as recruited athletes.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park fire managers are preparing for a prescribed fire on one day during April, weather permitting. The plans call for burning portions of a 117 acre burn unit between the Slyder Lane and South Confederate Avenue. Fuel and weather conditions must be within certain parameters...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today announced charges against two Cook County men for gunrunning, following a joint investigation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the DuPage Metropolitan Enforcement Group, and the Norridge and Bensenville police departments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County man who had been selling heroin from his home in Racine, West Virginia, entered a guilty plea in court yesterday. Trevor White, 29, who illegally sold heroin to individuals working with the U.S. 119 Task Force, admitted in court that he had been distributing heroin from his residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Philip R. Bartlett, Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), and Jonathan D. Larsen, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Kwamaine Jerell Ford has pleaded guilty to logging into Apple accounts belonging to high-profile professional athletes and musicians without authorization and stealing credit card information from several of those victims.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: The closure that was in effect from February 27 to March 27, 2019 for the Lower Buffalo Wilderness, Buffalo National River has now been lifted. The entire area, located in southeast Marion County approximately 7 miles southeast of Flippin, is now open to horse and foot traffic again. Visitors to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Three Cleveland men were indicted on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa -- Fifteen defendants are facing criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation of the Des Moines-based C-Block criminal street gang and associated cocaine trafficking organization. Criminal complaints unsealed in the United States District Court in Des Moines charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: A jury found a Toledo pastor guilty of sex trafficking of a minor and other crimes, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 90 of the 111 parcels offered in the Canyon Country, Green River and West Desert Districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DENROY FABLE, also known as “Kik," 35, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for firearm and narcotics offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - A Memphis, Tennessee man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Thursday afternoon for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. Desmond Bowen pled guilty to a federal firearms offense in November of 2018, stemming from his role in a shooting that occurred inside the Lyric...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2019
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that the Eastern District of Washington collected $8,186,767 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $1,750,262 was collected for victim restitution in criminal actions and $6,436,504 was collected in civil actions.
