News from October 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Swinomish Tribe leads effort to add Prosecutor to enhance prosecutions for consortium of NW Washington Tribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former Belmont County woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for buying illegal weight loss drugs from China to rebrand and resell them for a profit in the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Andrew Campbell, 33, of Albion, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nathan Paul Barnes, 24, of Rancho Cordova, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute narcotics, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Jonathan Cody Alexander, 31, of Asheville, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for enticement of a minor, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn Jr. also ordered Alexander to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeks Information on Alpine Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Fatal Shoot-out with Police Ended Crime Spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - First Lady Melania Trump today joined DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon to celebrate the official launch of the 2019 Red Ribbon campaign, dedicated to preserving the memory of DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki" Camarena - a DEA special agent who was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: EM cleanup contractors from coast to coast were recently honored with a variety of awards for safety and health excellence in DOE’s Voluntary Protection Program (VPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY- A Lexington, Kentucky, woman, who previously admitted to sending false information concerning explosives threatening the University of Kentucky campus was sentenced Tuesday to 6 months in prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Defendant hired as cardiac surgical technologist after falsifying employment documents, work history, references.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced that on October 8, 2019, 69 year old Richard John Massey was sentenced by District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey for Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct. Massey was sentenced to imprisonment for 40 months followed by a term of supervised release for 5 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska -- U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that today, after deliberating for 8 hours, a jury of 6 women and 6 men found James Michael Wells guilty of the April 12, 2012, murders of U.S. Coast Guard Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins (“Hopkins") and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle (“Belisle").
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: A man who physically assaulted a woman who was similarly situated to him as a spouse was sentenced today to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, Bryan Joshua Tewanema, 25, of Whitecone, Ariz., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 355 months of imprisonment. Tewanema had previously pleaded guilty to second degree murder and discharging a firearm in a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: LAUREL, Ky. - Dylan Brewer, 23, of Harlan County, pleaded guilty Monday to possession with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking crime, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward B. Atkins.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: In Austin this afternoon, a Nigerian National formerly residing in San Antonio and Austin pleaded guilty to his role in a Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud conspiracy that laundered millions of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Antonio; and, Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Houston Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Independence, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

By DOE Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - About $4.7 million in savings from Savannah River Site (SRS) fiscal 2019 infrastructure improvement projects enabled renovations to a building that consolidates new employee onboarding for the site’s management and operations contractor.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 8, 2019
News Release: For Illegal Reentry of a Removed Alien.