News from November 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Transportation Security Administration discovered a loaded firearm at a John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) checkpoint this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that EDWIN DAVID PONCE-MATAMOROS, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was charged Oct. 31, 2019 in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a), (b)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - The former city clerk in Everton, Missouri, has pleaded guilty to her role in a money-laundering conspiracy related to methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former senior vice president of sales at Cinelli Iron & Metal Co. (CIMCO) was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for participating in a 17-year conspiracy that defrauded customers out of millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Laurel Falls Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed on November 4-5, 2019, to allow road crews to pave the trail’s parking areas on each side of Fighting Creek Gap Road. This temporary closure allows contractors to safely operate equipment in the vicinity of the trailhead. Work is expected to take all day Monday and Tuesday, and the trail will reopen Wednesday morning, November 6, weather permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man arrested and charged in September 2019, made his first appearance in federal court in Springfield today for kidnapping and stalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested unlawfully present Mexican national Jose Barajas-Diaz, during a targeted enforcement action Friday, one week after the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office refused to honor an ICE detainer, and instead released Mr. Barajas-Diaz from local criminal custody following his conviction for felony death by motor vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The Drug Enforcement Administration is alerting the public of dangerous counterfeit pills killing Americans. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing mass quantities of counterfeit prescription pills containing fentanyl, a dangerous synthetic opioid that is lethal in minute doses, for distribution throughout North America.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Cheyenne, Wyoming resident Jonathon Ray Swan, was sentenced on Nov. 1, 2019, to 270 months (22.5 years) in federal prison by Chief Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. After a three-day trial held July 29 - 31, 2019, in Casper, Wyoming, Jonathon Swan was found guilty of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Cañon City, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management-Royal Gorge Field Office, through the work of partner organizations, added six trails totaling over ten miles to the Fourmile trail system near Buena Vista in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 23-year-old resident of Louisiana has admitted he unlawfully possessed a firearm following a previous felony conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida -Timothy CathCart (33, Pasco County) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing detectable amounts of fentanyl and norfentanyl, the use of which resulted in serious bodily injury to three individuals. CathCart faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 20 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: The Des Moines Police Department and the United States Attorney’s Office announced the results of a summer enforcement effort, which took dozens of guns off the street and resulted in federal indictments against multiple violent criminals in Des Moines.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG - Chad Poage, a Morgantown, West Virginia, physician, was sentenced today to five years’ probation and ordered to complete 500 hours of community service for obtaining controlled substances by fraudulently writing prescriptions using colleagues’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) numbers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Americans nationwide have once again shown their strong support for DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by dropping off nearly 883,000 pounds of medications during the October 2019 Take Back event.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a Janis White, 58, of Rochester, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with defrauding and conspiring to defraud the Rochester Housing Charities and with obstructing the government’s investigation. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - A Dayton man who was scheduled to stand trial today pleaded guilty to distributing carfentanil, fentanyl and heroin that resulted in at least one overdose death.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, Senior United States District Judge William B. Shubb sentenced Manuel Herrera, 39, of Davis, to serve one year in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2019
News Release: In a civil damages trial that concluded today before U.S. District Judge Sean Cox, a member of the Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team (“DFAT") was cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting death of a fugitive wanted for armed robbery, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
