News from October 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign helps educate GA pilots about safety issues, including loss of control (LOC), powerplant failure, and controlled flight into terrain (CFIT).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging ERIC RUNDSTROM, 45, of Wallingford, with two counts of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man was sentenced today to two years in prison and ordered to pay $332,000 in restitution to 35 victims for posing as a lawyer in order to defraud numerous car accident victims who were members of immigrant communities in Northern Virginia and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442 and Andrew P. Young (619) 546-7981.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Indictment unsealed today charges Russian and Italian nationals.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. October 4, 2019 - Fire staff completed ignitions on the last segment of the Sherman Prescribed Burn unit today, with 244 acres treated since Wednesday. The other segments of this prescribed burn were treated in July 2019, and this final segment brings the project to a total...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Lexington, Ky- Five defendants, who previously admitted to conspiring to distribute thousands of oxycodone pills throughout Richmond, Kentucky and surrounding areas, were sentenced this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan Heesch (619) 546-9442 and Andrew P. Young (619) 546-7981.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. -Victor M. Diaz, age 30, of Johnstown, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, for possessing and intending to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin mixed with fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday, October 7, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) will lead a two-day, Congressional Delegation to Mexico. The trip comes as the House Democratic Working Group on NAFTA 2.0 continues to engage in productive discussions with the U.S. Trade Representative regarding important improvements to the agreement. While in Mexico, members will meet with representatives from the Mexican Government as well as local workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Macon-The final two of ten defendants involved in a large-scale illicit drug operation based in Warner Robins, Georgia have been sentenced to prison for their crimes, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. U.S. District Judge Marc Treadwell sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alicia J. Evans, of Akron, Ohio, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Rakee Russ, 41, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 12 months and one day of incarceration, three years’ supervised release and $420 restitution by United States District Judge R. Barclay Surrick for his participation in a scheme to sell counterfeit tickets.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: CLEARWATER RIVER, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cottonwood Field Office hosted the annual Clearwater River Cleanup Day on Sept. 14. The BLM partnered with the National Guard’s Idaho Youth ChalleNGe Academy (IDYCA) from Pierce, and the Clearwater Management Council (CMC), a multi-agency and multi-county group that cooperatively monitors and manages the environmental, social and recreational aspects of the river.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Jeffery Thorpe, Special Agent in Charge of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service Cyber Field Office, today announced that CHRISTOPHER TEIXEIRA, 35, formerly of Darien and currently residing in Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Alonzo Payne, 37, of Hazelwood, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison by United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel. The sentence follows Payne’s July 3, 2019 guilty plea to one count of Interfering with Commerce by Threats or Violence and one count of Brandishing a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence. The charges stemmed from a Dec. 21, 2018 robbery of a Subway restaurant in Florissant, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of MARCUS ANTHONY MATTOX, 25, for illegally possessing a firearm. The jury found MATTOX guilty following a four-day trial before Senior Judge Donovan W. Frank in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica MacDonald announced the guilty pleas of OTIS RAY MAYS, 26, to charges of wire fraud and receipt of child pornography. MAYS, who was charged in two separate indictments on March 12, 2019, entered his guilty plea on Oct. 3, 2019, before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota. A sentencing date for MAYS has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to embezzling money from his employer, a Virginia business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Air Force Colonel Pleads Guilty to Receiving Child Pornography.
