News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Dontae Saunders was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for distributing fentanyl (i.e., methoxyacetyl fentanyl) when he was on state parole following heroin trafficking and gun convictions, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office plans to conduct prescribed burning of slash piles at several different locations this winter. The projects are to remove invasive species, including tamarisk and Russian olive, along the Gunnison and Dolores Rivers. The BLM will conduct the prescribed burns in the following locations as conditions allow.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Defendant stole identity of U.S. Army Specialist.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Troy Miller, Director, Field Operations, New York, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP")...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Shreveport, New Orleans, Lafayette, La. - Today, Patrick Hale Dejean, former Justice of the Peace for the Second Justice Court of Jefferson Parish, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to three years in federal prison for committing 13 counts of mail fraud and three counts of making...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that a fifteen-week-long joint federal, state, local and Tribal law enforcement initiative has resulted in 246 arrests of fugitives and violent offenders in Yakima County. Fifty-four percent of the arrests...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael T. McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today issued the following statement on protests in Iraq, where violence has left over 100 dead and thousands wounded...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on October 7, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Former Track Coach Martin Nicholson Admits Directing a Minor to Produce Explicit Images of Another Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Billy Harris, age 38, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a memo notifying Committee Members of his intent to issue subpoenas to Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Ken Cuccinelli and Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Matthew T. Albence for testimony and documents on the Trump Administration’s policy of deporting critically ill children and their families.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Allen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Marlon Guevara, also known as “Mosquito," a member of the Sailors Locos Salvatruchas Westside clique of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13 (MS-13), a transnational criminal organization, was sentenced by United States Circuit Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Michael Joseph Nicholson, 36, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced on Oct. 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess, to 10 years in prison, to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, for his role in a drug and money laundering conspiracy that distributed cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in Anchorage, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Charles Victor Kopfstein-Penk, age 74, of Bethesda, Maryland, with possession of child pornography. Kopfstein-Penk, a music teacher who gave lessons out of his home, was arrested earlier this year on related state charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on October 8, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Alleged hacker Anthony Tyler Nashatka, a/k/a “psycho," appeared today in federal court on charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud and abuse, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and other charges related to a scheme to defraud victims of at least $1.4 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Eby, 46, of Fair Oaks, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with the owners of home health agencies to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for Medicare beneficiary referrals, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: In an effort to provide as much opportunity for conducting business in the park(s) as possible, Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, and Obed Wild & Scenic River will now accept applications for commercial use authorizations year-round. A late fee will apply after the open period for applications, which is January 1 through March 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who wore a fake mustache and a hospital mask when he robbed a bank in Overland Park was sentenced today to four years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
