News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Members of the “Famous Boyz" street gang have admitted to firearms and narcotics distribution offenses as part of a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Steven Powers, 35, a former probation and parole officer with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, was sentenced today in federal court in Tulsa to two years in prison for subjecting two female probationers to unwanted sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Richard E. Kinsey Jr., 35, Brandi M. Whitford, 23, and Terrence M. McRae, 39, all of Jamestown, NY, with narcotics conspiracy. Defendants Kinsey and Whitford are also charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that PAMELA HILL, 55, of Simsbury, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffery A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud related to an embezzlement scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland, Ohio, returned an indictment today charging James Hargis, Jr., age 19, of Navarre, Ohio, with three counts of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, including LSD, MDMA and THC vape cartridges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that HAKEEM ALEXANDER COLES, age 24, a resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was charged on Nov. 21, 2019 in a two-count indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for possessing an unregistered firearm and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Defendant, Awaiting Sentencing in State Bribery Case, Pleads Guilty to Evading Taxes on Those Bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Mark E. Wolanyk, 61, of Clarence Center, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to tax evasion. The charge carries carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: PRICE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management will hold Open Houses to provide information about the San Rafael Desert Travel Management Planning effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A two residents of Southwestern Pennsylvania pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of narcotics trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Sherzod Mukumov pled guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping. As alleged in the indictment, Mukumov and his co-conspirators used a Taser to subdue and abduct a victim to collect a debt the victim purportedly owed to one of Mukukmov’s co-defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John B. DeVito, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation and Klamath Water Users Association (KWUA) today announced the extension of a public comment period to Dec. 2 for two Klamath Project and Upper Klamath Basin power reports-The Klamath Basin Affordable Power Studies Power Cost Benchmark Report and Klamath River Basin America’s Water Infrastructure Act Affordable Power Measures Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that PAMELA HILL, 55, of Simsbury, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffery A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of wire fraud related to an embezzlement scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is lifting fire restrictions on Dec. 4, for approximately 640,000 acres of BLM-managed public lands in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, San Luis Obispo and Tulare counties, due to reduced wildland fire conditions. Fire restrictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On Nov. 25, 2019, Christina Erin Myers, 37, of Lenoir City, entered a guilty plea to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Twiggs County woman found guilty of attempting to sell more than 300 grams of methamphetamine was sentenced to prison Wednesday, said U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. Tiffany Sauls, 25, of Danville, Georgia, was convicted on July 16, 2019 of one count of Possession with Intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dijon Harris, 53, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking activity. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $5,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2019
News Release: FBI Announces the Arrest of an Armed Robbery Suspect.
