News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today launched a national strategy to address missing and murdered Native Americans. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Initiative places MMIP coordinators in 11 U.S. Attorney’s offices including Minnesota who will develop protocols for a more coordinated...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - A federal jury has convicted TOMMY DEAN BULLCOMING, 55, of Hammon, Oklahoma, of first-degree felony murder in Indian Country and related offenses, announced Timothy J. Downing, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TERRANCE SAUNDERS, 33, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 79 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man has been arrested and charged with Hobbs Act robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Fallon Deneem Page, 37, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to mail fraud in connection with a compound pharmacy fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai to express serious concern over the FCC’s plans to sell off part of the 3.7-4.2 GHZ spectrum band and open...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that that JOSEPH A. BORINO, age 62, a resident of Spring Hill, Texas was charged on Nov. 21, 2019 by a federal grand jury in an eight-count Indictment for his role in the marketing and operation of what claimed to be a Medical Reimbursement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN T. FINKLE III, 58, of, East Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a scheme to defraud an Illinois-based company of more than $3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Defendant fled after being released from state custody despite immigration detainer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: All cases prosecuted under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Three female veterans of our Armed Services have joined the National Park Service (NPS) for a week conducting shipwreck surveys at Channel Islands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Met a 9th-Grade School Girl on Social Media, Sexually Exploited Her, Traveled to Maryland to Engage in Sexual Activity with the Girl, and Produced Images Documenting the Abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Zion National Park confirms that the body found Thursday, November 21 was that of 19-year-old Savannah McTague. McTague, from Maine, was a Xanterra concession employee working at Zion Lodge.
By State Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as well as Senators Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today welcomed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Bernard Lavon Woofter, 43, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 30 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Federal prosecutors in Washington State and the FBI to enhance investigations into Missing Persons, and Develop Protocols for Law Enforcement, Improvements to Data Collection and Analyses, Training and Technical Assistance.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao announced today that the Department of Transportation will award $10.2 million in airport infrastructure grants to three airports in the state of Missouri. With this announcement, the Trump Administration has invested a historic $10.8 billion in more than two thousand American airports across the United States for safety and infrastructure improvements since January 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Joel Seth Hood, age 37, of Idabel, Oklahoma. was sentenced to 38 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Cenen Placencia, 71, of Kodiak, was arraigned today on a complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: A Cedar County man who shot his neighbor’s house over 60 times was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to more than seven years in prison.
