News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A New Jersey man was sentenced to federal prison for his participation in a drug trafficking organization, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Terry, 38, was sentenced to 92 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Stuart commended the cooperative investigative...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Thompson purchased over 10 guns, sold some to heroin dealers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal law enforcement seized more than 14 kilograms of cocaine and 15 firearms as part of an investigation that dismantled a Texas-to-Chicago narcotics pipeline and resulted in charges against ten defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Ishod Hazell (26, Orlando) to three years in federal prison for committing aggravated identity theft and using unauthorized access devices at Universal Orlando theme parks. The court also ordered Hazell to pay restitution in the amount of $153,598.99, representing the total losses to Universal.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WAPATO, WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2019-A map identifying the areas suitable for establishment of the spotted lanternfly (SLF) in the United States and other countries has been published in the Journal of Economic Entomology by Agricultural Research Service scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 68-year-old resident of Seabrook has entered a guilty plea to receipt and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dennis Port man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on charges of receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly possessed a gun and ammunition in playground.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that its quarterly oil and gas lease sale in Nevada resulted in competitive bids for 19,051.53 acres. A total of 269,184.41 acres were offered during this sale, which was in keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VALERIE WILLIAMS, LPC, and her business, CIRCLE OF LIFE TRANSITION CENTER, LLC, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and will pay more than $45,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Felipe De Jesus Dominguez-Jop, 34, an illegal alien from Mexico, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 14 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful reentry by an alien deported after conviction of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, and William Joyce, Acting Field Office Director of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, 35, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a former resident of Weatherford, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 151 months in federal prison for making a false statement to the FBI about his attendance at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000, as well as for visa fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Donald Halmy, Chief of the Peekskill Police Department, and Thomas Gleason, Commissioner of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Loren Hoffman, III, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, was sentenced to six months incarceration for a firearms sales violation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - William Ronald Monroe, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The mayor of Atlantic City today admitted to defrauding contributors to a youth basketball team of more than $87,000, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THADDEUS CARTER, age 45, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before the Honorable Carl J. Barbier to violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - An Indiana man and his niece have been indicted on federal kidnapping and domestic violence charges for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting the man’s former girlfriend.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Saudi Citizen Sentenced to More Than 12 Years in Prison for Concealing Attendance at Al Qaeda Training Camp and Visa Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is planning prescribed burning projects for the fall and winter months on public lands in Shasta, Butte, Tehama and Trinity counties. Crews will ignite the pile burns and broadcast burns only when weather and fuel conditions allow for safe and successful burning and smoke dispersion.
