News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Christopher Brian Cosimano, a/k/a “Durty," (31, Gibsonton) and Michael Dominick Mencher, a/k/a “Pumpkin," (53, Tarpon Springs) to life in federal prison plus ten years, and life in prison plus five years, respectively, for conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, and related firearms offenses. A federal jury found Cosimano and Mencher guilty on Aug. 12, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Twenty defendants have been indicted on charges relating to the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine in the Burlington County, New Jersey, area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the guilty plea of MYLES NICHOLAS, age 32, of Jamaica, New York, to charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. NICHOLAS entered his plea on Nov. 20, 2019 before U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury indicted four members of a violent Brockton drug crew today on charges of conspiring to distribute fentanyl and illegal firearm possession.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - A Mexican man wanted for murder in his home country was removed (deported) Wednesday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, The park was notified of a missing hiker in the Angels Landing area. A joint investigation by Zion National Park and Washington County Sherriff’s Office is underway.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: FBI Richmond Assists Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office with 2017 Homicide Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Twenty defendants have been indicted on charges relating to the distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine in the Burlington County, New Jersey, area, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: OAKLAND - Jin K. Chung was sentenced to 120 months in prison for money laundering, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the District Attorney for New York County, announced the conviction today of MARK S. SCOTT, following a three-week trial before the Honorable Edgardo Ramos. SCOTT, a former equity partner at...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Visitors with limited mobility will be able to use the new Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) accessible hunt blind and wildlife-viewing platform to hunt waterfowl during authorized dates starting December 14. All Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) visitors can use the platform to participate in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: Indictment alleges owner of CJN Miniatures & More set fire to claim insurance funds as business struggled to pay rent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A Tuscaloosa County woman who was employed by the Social Security Administration pled guilty today in federal court, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, Atlanta Division Special Agent in Charge Rodregas Owens, and United States Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Patrick Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Antonio Tawan Bankhead, 31, of Fairfield, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A 13-count indictment was filed in federal court today charging James W. Millegan, 62, a former Oregon securities broker, with investment account churning and tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gaafar Muhammed Ebrahim Al-Wazer, 25, of Altoona, PA, was ordered detained in federal custody on three counts of making false statements to Task Force Officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to the arson at the Columbia Health Center (operated by Planned Parenthood Great Plains) on Feb. 10, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management’s Missoula Field Office today expanded public access by acquiring 7,268 acres of land. Using Sportsman’s Access funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the acquisition is helping stitch together what had been a patchwork of interspersed public and private land.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: James Baldinger, 51, a former private prisoner transport officer with the Prisoner Transportation Services of America LLC (PTS), was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to two years in prison for sexually assaulting a female during transport.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Joshua Dewayne Funburg, age 34, of Checotah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 94 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm, in violation of Title 18...
