News from October 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A North Texas man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for child exploitation violations while acting as a host to international foreign exchange students.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GERACI pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud. GERACI’s plea stems from his participation in a scheme to defraud clients of his company, Meridian...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs received testimony from Ambassador Kurt Volker, former State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, as part of the House...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 37 months for conspiracy to commit money laundering. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) welcomes 2019’s October Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Jeffrey Lockwood, a Wyoming writer currently living and working in Laramie. Jeffrey Lockwood is an unusual fellow. He grew up in New Mexico and spent youthful afternoons enchanted by feeding grasshoppers to black widows in his backyard. This might account for both his scientific and literary affinities.
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: Fourth annual event to be held on Oct. 24, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Roswell, N.M. - Beginning in October, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be conducting prescribed burn operations about 10 miles northeast of Ruidoso and 6 miles southeast of Capitan in Lincoln County. The 1,130 acre project will take place within the Fort Stanton-Snowy River Cave National Conservation Area.
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: SOUTH BEND - Quonzee Merriweather, age 25, of Michigan City, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio for distribution of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, said U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: Kemper County Sheriff Commended for Working Undercover with Federal Authorities.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: “Opioid overdose deaths are down 11% over this time last year, a substantial drop and the continuation of a multi-year trend. Now would not be the time to open a site for the purpose of making it easier to take heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced in federal court in Boston today in connection to his role in a firearms, narcotics and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A Brownsville man and a couple living in Los Fresnos have been ordered to prison for a total of nearly 50 years for their role in transporting meth from Brownsville to Louisiana, announced U. S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Jesus Hector Garza Jr., 31, Gelacio Flores-Flores, 33, and Mayra Danira Rodriguez, 40, pleaded guilty in 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Sierra Front Field Office, announces the Oct. 15, 2019 seasonal closing of the BLM campground adjacent to Indian Creek Reservoir in Alpine County, California. Indian Creek Campground will close at 1 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kanawha County woman was sentenced to federal prison for a heroin trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Valerie Ramey, 42, of Hernshaw, was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kimberly Dumbleton, 47, of Casselberry, FL, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order on Medicare...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - From the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House in Washington, D.C. to the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, the struggle for racial equality is told through powerful places, people, and moments in history. Yesterday the National Park Service announced 22 sites and programs that commemorate, honor, and interpret the significant time period between 1939-1968 as parts of the African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN).
