News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Also Purchased at Least Six Guns for Others and the Whereabouts of 19 of the Guns Purchased is Unknown.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim will transition to seasonally reduced services beginning at noon on Oct. 16, 2019. Grand Canyon National Park would like to remind the public to plan accordingly if they intend to visit the North Rim after Oct. 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Paul Alexander, a/k/a David Paul Hayes and Shorty, age 47, of Hanover, Maryland, on five federal charges including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, two counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substances-specifically fentanyl, possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Edward Buck was indicted this afternoon by a federal grand jury on a series of narcotics distribution offenses, including providing methamphetamine to two men who died after being injected with the drug.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A superseding indictment was filed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Vicente Carrillo Fuentes with running a continuing criminal enterprise, as well as firearms offenses, money laundering and other drug-related crimes through his leadership of the Juarez Cartel, a violent drug trafficking organization. Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by Mexican authorities in October 2014 and is presently incarcerated in Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The BLM has opened a 15-day public scoping period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana. The scoping period runs through Oct. 18, 2019, and is intended to solicit public input on nominated lease parcels for the March 24, 2020 lease sale, including the preliminary recommendations and stipulations.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - The National Park Service Incident Management Team (IMT) demobilized last week. The team began their response to Hurricane Dorian on Sept. 3, two days before the Category 1 storm made landfall around Cape Hatteras, and planned for and worked on stabilization efforts at Cape Lookout National Seashore since then. Now, Cape Lookout staff resumes the daily operations bringing the park back to normal operating status.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - On Sept. 19, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an Indictment charging defendants, Jessica Rae Reznicek and Ruby Katherine Montoya, with one count of conspiracy to damage an energy facility, four counts of use of fire in the commission of a felony, and four counts of malicious...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Kingston Ansah, the owner of a Georgia shipping company, has been sentenced to federal prison for an identity theft and credit card scheme. Ansah has been in federal custody since he attempted to flee the country after learning of these charges in November 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man was ordered detained in federal custody today, arraigned on a federal indictment charging him with robbing banks this past summer in Providence and Pawtucket.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced FARUQ ROSE, 43, of Wallace, North Carolina, to 420 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the guilty plea of TIMOTHY JAMES LAJEUNESSE, 28, for assaulting a minor on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. LAJEUNESSE, who was indicted on May 21, 2019, pleaded guilty today before Senior Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is scheduled to be sentenced on February 5, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-A judge today sentenced a Browning man who admitted to strangling and assaulting a dating partner in two separate attacks on the Blackfeet Reservation to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release, U.S Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - A currently imprisoned Florida businessman pleaded guilty today to making false statements on a financial disclosure statement he provided to the Justice Department, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Julan Morrison, a/k/a “Weez," age 38, of Hudson, New York, pled guilty on Monday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine between August and December 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A local man and a Mexican national have pleaded guilty for their involvement in a conspiracy to distribute 42.5 kilograms of cocaine in the U.S., announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Houston Division, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tyrone Jiggetts, 48, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to serve 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 48-year-old Mexican national has admitted to importing 12 kilograms of cocaine via the Gateway to the Americas International Bridge in Laredo, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man was ordered detained in federal custody today, arraigned on a federal indictment charging him with robbing banks this past summer in Providence and Pawtucket.
