News from May 2019
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Reno, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding a competitive oil and gas lease sale on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. The agency will offer 200 parcels for lease totaling 389,334.04 acres in Eureka, Elko, Lander, Nye and White Pine counties in north central Nevada. The BLM will hold the lease sale online at www.energynet.com.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Michael D. DeLeon Named Assistant Director of the Criminal Justice Information Services Division.
By USDA Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on April 30, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) entered into a stipulation agreement with Javier Juarez, doing business as JJ Meats...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Edward Espejo, 45, formerly of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced on Thursday to 168 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that two Anchorage men have each been sentenced to serve 10 years in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms during a 2017 home invasion style armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three South Korean nationals were charged today in a federal grand jury indictment with attempting to illegally export to Asia more than $600,000 in live Dudleya succulent plants that they had pulled out of the ground at remote state parks in Northern California.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Nygele McKinney, 34, of Picayune, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Jere T. Miles with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New Orleans.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2019
Release: LATROBE, Pa. - An Indiana, Pennsylvania, man was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE) on Thursday, May 30, when they detected a loaded handgun in his carry-on bag along with a folding knife.
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -With the NBA Finals presented by YouTube TV in full swing, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) led National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and HSI San Francisco warned the public Friday to beware of purchasing counterfeit sports apparel and tickets to games and other events.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: California Man Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison for Sexually Exploiting a Minor He Met While Playing “Clash Of Clans".
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William Jung today sentenced Ryan Cotton (37, Manatee County) to 13 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Marcus Wilson was sentenced today to 30 months in prison and to pay $1,026,340 in restitution for filing false claims with the government, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Special Agent in Charge Kareem Carter. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Judge Jon S. Tigar, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Steven M. Williams, a/k/a “Brother Ray," a/k/a “Ray," age 39, formerly of Delaware, today to 25 years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a child by force, fraud, and coercion.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Gunnison, CO - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 309,000 visitors to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park in 2018 spent $19.3 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 241 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $23.7 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Zakiel Fields, Jr., 24, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and failure to appear after pre-trial release, was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Phoenix, AZ - This morning, Blane Barksdale, 55, and Susan Barksdale, 58, were arrested in Henrietta, NY. The Barksdale’s were wanted by the Tucson Police Department for 1st Degree Murder, 1st Degree Burglary, Arson of an Occupied Structure, Theft of Means of Transportation, Criminal Damage and Prohibited Possession.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Victims Assaulted in 2016 and 2018 on Sidewalks in Northwest, Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced RICARDO JEROME BENNETT, SR., 48, of Wilmington, North Carolina to 216 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised released. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $10,000.00.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: Darrin E. Jones Named Assistant Director of the Information Technology Infrastructure Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Miller, 54, of Richmond Heights, pleaded guilty today to one count of aiding and abetting honest services wire fraud/bribery in front of U.S. District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
