News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: FBI Uniform Crime Report Shows 3.9 Drop in Violent Crime in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Lavonte Harmon, 33, of Lexington, was sentenced Thursday to 80 months in federal prison, by United States District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for possession with intent to distribute acetylfentanyl, a fentanyl analogue.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 35-year-old resident of Laredo has entered a guilty plea to conspiring to transport aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) has once again been selected to receive a 2019-2020 field trip grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF), the official charity of America’s national parks. This grant will allow fourth grade classes the opportunity to explore the National...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: A Beachwood woman was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for stealing the identities of more than a dozen people and filing false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Fairfax attorney today on charges of conspiring to defraud and to launder fraud proceeds totaling over $1.5 million, including funds embezzled from Virginia State Senator Richard Saslaw’s campaign account, a Canadian business, and an organization intended to support students with autism and other intellectual disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kaden Sylvester, 24, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of the online enticement of a minor, was sentenced to serve 144 months in prison, and 15 years supervised release, by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced a settlement with York County under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act to improve physical accessibility at the county’s polling places for individuals who use wheel chairs and other mobility aids, and for individuals who are blind or have vision impairments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, Jody Tremayne Wafer, 30, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty for organizing and leading a conspiracy to traffic marijuana grown in Portland to Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- On Sunday, October 6 through Monday, Oct. 14, Fleet Week activities are expected to bring heavier traffic in and around the waterfront areas of Golden Gate National Recreation Area and San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. These congested areas will include Crissy Field, Fort Point National Historic Site, Aquatic Park, and Lands End in San Francisco; Conzelman Road and Fort Baker in Marin County.
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: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Aaron Tyler Stroud, 38, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, made his initial appearance in federal court in Las Cruces on Wednesday on a criminal complaint charging him with impersonating an officer of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD -A Rockford man was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey to a total of ten years in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A woman formerly from McLean was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for stealing the identity of a woman from Alexandria, who had been her housemate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A woman formerly from McLean was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for stealing the identity of a woman from Alexandria, who had been her housemate.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program has awarded more than $9.3 million in grants to support coral conservation projects and scientific studies in seven U.S. states and territories, as well as international projects in the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, Micronesia and the South Pacific.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that the United States will host the world’s biggest conference on concentrating solar power (CSP) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In October 2020, SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems), a program of the International Energy Agency, will bring...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander today sentenced Alexander Massari, age 53, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to 230 months in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Hollander also ordered that, upon his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JACQUEZ HILL, 21, of Wilmington North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Californian vintner was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for paying $50,000 to have his daughter’s SAT scores artificially inflated, and agreeing to another $250,000 to have her fraudulently recruited to the University of Southern California (USC) as a water polo player.
