News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Lied about family status, falsely claimed dependents, stole mail, and used relatives’ ID information to open credit and bank accounts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Dripping Springs Natural Area, including the visitor center, picnic sites and all the hiking trails within the area, will be closed to visitors on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced today that a federal jury sitting in Coeur d’Alene convicted Adam Christopher Horty, 56, of Post Falls, Idaho, of three counts of distribution of methamphetamine, one count of possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Federal prosecutors in Minnesota 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 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: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul E. Byron has sentenced Eric Bales (31, Winter Park) to life imprisonment for the enticement of a minor to produce child pornography and 20 years’ imprisonment for the distribution of child sex abuse imagery, to be served consecutively. Bales had pleaded guilty on May 22, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Nov. 22, 2019, Jason G. Burgett (age: 43) of West Allis, Wisconsin, appeared in federal court in Green Bay and entered a guilty plea to a charge of bank robbery in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Former Caregivers Plead Guilty to Violating Rights of Resident with Developmental Disability.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Pair owned dental practice where they falsely inflated expenses and hid income to avoid more than $460,000 in income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: Federal Prosecutors in Oklahoma 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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A longtime corrections officer at the Belmont Correctional Institution was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 30 months in prison for smuggling contraband into the prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: El Centro, Calif. - Law Enforcement Officers with the Bureau of Land Management will be conducting driving under the influence (DUI) and registration checkpoints from noon to 2 a.m., Nov. 29-30, at several locations on BLM-managed public lands in Imperial County, which will include the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that a 24-member drug trafficking operation has been totally dismantled, following a federal jury’s conviction of the final four defendants yesterday. Darrell Lee-Lamont Summers II, 28, Daryl Kevin Cannon, 27, Timothy Roy Mason, 39...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jake Edward Howland, 23, of Vallejo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years and 10 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a machine gun, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - 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 U.S. Attorney’s offices in 11 states, including Oklahoma, who will develop protocols...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: IRVINE, California - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), working together with local law enforcement, arrested an Irvine man today for allegedly robbing two check cashing stores and attempting to rob two other such stores in Orange County in late August.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Suffolk man late yesterday on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and discharge of a firearm, stemming from an incident that took place on May 12 in the Great Dismal Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge.
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 $10.5 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of Virginia. 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: CONCORD - Kristina Blake, 29, of Northfield, was sentenced in federal court Thursday, to 10 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and a conspiracy to possess firearms during a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
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 $4.6 million in airport infrastructure grants to two airports in the state of West Virginia. 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.
