News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on November 7, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Jason Paul Schaefer, 28, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison and 5 years’ supervised release for detonating an improvised explosive device on Oct. 11, 2017, assaulting two members of the Portland Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The principals and co-founders of a North Andover mortgage short sale assistance company were charged today in connection with defrauding mortgage lenders and investors out of nearly $500,000 in proceeds from about 90 short sale transactions. The defendants allegedly defrauded the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - 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: BOSTON - A former employee for the City of Boston pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing cocaine and fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service Southeast Utah Group is pleased to announce Samantha Zim as the 2020 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP). The committee has also selected Julia Buckwalter to serve as CAIP in 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The storm debris project at Fort Pulaski National Monument continues and is progressing eastward in the park. Much of the park trail system near the park picnic area is currently closed for public safety. Access to and from the park picnic area will be marked along Cockspur Island Road and will utilize...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: International Falls, MN - Park staff would like to remind visitors that overnight tent camping and houseboat reservations for the 2020 season will become available on Nov. 15, 2019 at 9 am CST.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 24-year-old man from Zacatecas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of assaulting three Border Patrol (BP) agents, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Luis Gustavo Ramirez-Saucedo pleaded guilty June 25.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: DURANGO, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation invites members of the press and public to a meeting to continue negotiations with the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. The purpose of these negotiations is to agree to terms for an operations, maintenance and replacement contract for the federally-owned Cutter Lateral features of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, located near Bloomfield, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Yakima, Washington. Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that there will be a press conference at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 8, 2019, at Yakima City Hall - Council Chambers in Yakima, Washington, to make a significant law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RYAN GRAY, 24, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former senior executive with Alstom S.A. (Alstom), a French power and transportation company, was found guilty today for his role in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar foreign bribery scheme and a related money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VINSON SINGLETON, JR., 25, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to a federal robbery offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Lawrence Keefe.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Floyd Thomas, 41, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Damon R. Leichty, on his plea of guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Four Additional Individuals Charged for Role in Multi-Million Dollar Investment Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument will change its hours of operations to 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM for the winter months. The hours will change on Monday, November 18th. The Monument will continue to be open 7 days a week.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Nov. 18, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will hold a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Data Optimization Summit to modernize aeronautical information and NOTAM data. The FAA and the aviation community will discuss ways to improve the collection and dissemination of vital aeronautical information provided primarily to airspace users, with a focus on general aviation pilots and the growing drone community.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Rhett Steven Ragland, age 23, of Ada, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 33 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United...
