News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Mark A. Klaassen announced today a significant reduction in violent crime affecting Wyoming communities over the past two years. The Uniform Crime Reporting Index for Wyoming, as compiled by the FBI, indicates violent crime in Wyoming dropped approximately 17% between 2016 and 2018. “This...
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: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTIAN DAWKINS was sentenced to twelve months and a day in prison, and MERL CODE was sentenced to 3 months in prison, after having been found guilty in May 2019 of engaging in a scheme to bribe multiple...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - Two park rangers from Iceland just spent a week at New River Gorge National River learning about park management and the U.S. national park system. Their visit is a part of a partnership program with the US State Department, Washington NPS Legislative Affairs and the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Michigan man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in running an advanced fee scheme involving phony Standby Letters of Credit supposedly issued by European banks. His co-defendant, also from Michigan, was sentenced to a lesser term.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Washington, D.C. man was sentenced today to nearly 30 years in prison for his participation in three armed robberies and an armed carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: FBI Report Shows 5.8 Percent Drop in South Dakota Violent Crime Rate in 2018; first decrease in five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jaswinder Singh, age 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Utica to knowingly transporting illegal aliens within the United States for the purpose of financial gain, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Robert N. Garcia, Chief Patrol Agent, United States Border Patrol, Swanton Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Three men have been arrested in connection with a bank robbery in Elmwood Park earlier this week. Law enforcement is also investigating whether the trio committed other recent bank robberies in Chicago and nearby suburbs.
By State Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, sent a letter conveying a subpoena to White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney for key documents as part of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jamie Allen Butcher, of Shinnston, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Illegally Possessed a Gun for the Third Time - Also Has Prior Federal Convictions for Drug Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Robert W. Rives, 37, of New Baden, IL, was sentenced to 82 months in prison for carjacking and using a firearm during a crime of violence. Rives appeared today before U.S. District Judge Rodney W. Sippel.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Making plans for the holidays? Save Dec. 5 for the 2019 National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony ! Presented by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, this beloved American tradition features musical performances and the official lighting of the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse at President’s Park (White House).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the issuance of an order to Eagle LNG Partners Jacksonville LLC (Eagle LNG) approving exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Eagle Jacksonville Project, to be located along the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: A contracting officer with the U.S. Department of State was convicted today of conspiracy, bribery, honest services wire fraud and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison on one count of armed bank robbery and one count of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Manazheega Cleveland, age 20, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. to 54 months’ imprisonment for an armed robbery of the Pony Express gas station on the Omaha Nation Indian Reservation. Cleveland will also be on supervised release for a period of three years when he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Angel DeLeon, 41, a Mexican national, made his initial appearance in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico today after being extradited from Mexico on a racketeering charge involving alleged violent criminal conduct by the Syndicato de Nuevo Mexico (SNM) prison gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal jury convicted 49-year-old Charles McAllister, CEO and owner of Bullion Direct, Inc. (BDI), of money laundering and scheming to defraud customers out of millions of dollars, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash; FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division; IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Goss, Houston Field Office; and, Texas State Securities Board Commissioner Travis J. Iles.
