News from November 2019
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Concluding the park’s recent celebration of mapping the cave’s 150th mile, Rachel Cox donated the cave pack she used the day she was lost 30 years ago in Wind Cave.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced Delvin Fountain, age 30, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 180 months in federal prison following his conviction of possessing a firearm by a convicted felon. The Court further sentenced Fountain to 5 years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment and ordered that the firearm involved be forfeited.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kofi Appiah-Mainoo, 30, of Temple Hills, Maryland, and James Hutchings, Jr., 38, of Waldorf, Maryland, were arrested on November 5, 2019, on a federal charge stemming from an ongoing investigation into the trafficking of firearms into the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment charging SHELBY GENE BOSWELL, 28, a convicted felon, with possessing and discharging a firearm in a school zone.[1] BOSWELL will make his initial appearance today at 2:00 pm before Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Cowan Wright in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc Hannon-White, a former Atlanta Regional Commission employee, has been arraigned on charges of bribery and extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - A federal jury has found Kevin Gene Hart (31, Ocala) guilty of conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, 1 kilogram or more of heroin, and 400 grams or more of fentanyl. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 28, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A Missoula-area woman who admitted to law enforcement she was dealing methamphetamine and heroin after getting pulled over in a traffic stop was sentenced today to 51 months in prison and four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Bernard Lindsay, 41, of Concord, was sentenced yesterday to 80 months in federal prison for possession of cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WESLEY T. BISHOP, age 51, of New Orleans was charged today with making a false statement, a crime punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Today, the National Park Service (NPS) released the findings and follow-up corrective action plan for the December 2018 visitor center fire at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Bryant Freemont, Jr., age 19, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska for Robbery in Indian Country. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Freemont to 18 months of imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing his term of imprisonment, Freemont will begin a three-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Markell Palmer-Tate, 27 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting an attempted bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Tahlequah, Oklahoma, resident Haskell Doak Willis, age 65, was Indicted for Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Farmville man was sentenced yesterday to nearly eight years in prison for the illegal possession of 40 firearms and 23,000 rounds of ammunition by an unlawful user of controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A Kentucky doctor joined a growing list of medical professionals implicated in an illegal kickback scheme involving OK Compounding. This is the eleventh kickback settlement since November 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that WESLEY T. BISHOP, age 51, of New Orleans was charged today with making a false statement, a crime punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Buffalo National River winterizes and closes several visitor use facilities every year on November 15. Due to extremely cold temperatures that have been forecasted in the coming days, the following areas will be winterized and closed a few days ahead of schedule to protect the park's infrastructure. All areas not listed will remain open until the normally scheduled closure.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A Harris County judge has been indicted on allegations of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI - Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Operation Executed by U.S. Marshals’ Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force to Arrest Offenders with Outstanding Arrest Warrants.
