News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Deputy Antione Riggins, who was also a federal task-force member, has been arraigned on federal charges that he used his former position to steal cocaine and methamphetamine before the drugs could be secured in evidence, and made a series of false statements to cover up his drug theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Jimmie Dwight Whitfield (43, Atlantic Beach) to 37 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender after absconding from supervision in Georgia and establishing residence in Florida. Whitfield was also sentenced to a 5-year term of supervised release and required to register as a sex offender. He has been in custody since his arrest on Oct. 25, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This year’s overarching message for the month - Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT. - focuses on personal privacy, consumer devices, and e-commerce security. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) understands how important it is to keep your data private and your mobile technology secure and much of our research and development (R&D) efforts focus on these topics.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two Illinois men have been sentenced to a total of 109 months in federal prison for transporting and possession of stolen firearms. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) reiterated their demand for documents from the General Services Administration (GSA) and requested that GSA conduct an audit of the Trump International Hotel.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Bellingham area woman found dead after ingesting pills that appeared to be oxycodone - lab tests underway for presence of fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a letter to House Democrats...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: RAPID CITY, SD - United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Stanley Patrick Weber, age 70, of Spearfish, South Dakota, was found guilty by a federal jury of 5 counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse and 3 counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor following a week-long jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A third guilty plea filed in U.S. District Court this week wraps up an investigation of child pornographers.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: MADISON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) today held a press conference at the Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) to remind Wisconsin residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Demetrius Jackson, 43, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) released thefollowing statement on the Trump administration's intent to nominate Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Virginia Perkins, 49, of Lake, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to two years probation for delay or destruction of U.S. mail by a postal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Cave with the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General, Southern Area Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Leader of a Sinaloan Drug Trafficking Organization Pleaded Guilty In Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Roger Christopher Simpson, age 45, of Lawton, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Use Of Telephone To Make Bomb Threat, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(e), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine up to $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man has been charged by indictment with kidnapping a 15-year-old girl and transporting her to Ohio, as well as with being in the United States illegally after previously being deported, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAMAR SMITH, also known as “JT," 37, of Bridgeport, and JOHN FLANNERY, III, 29, of East Hartford, have been charged with various federal offenses related to the straw purchases of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Lawrence Keefe today announced a criminal complaint against Robert Odom, a crew member on a commercial fishing vessel who allegedly attacked and wounded the vessel’s captain with a pellet gun and long-blade knife as the vessel was underway in the Gulf of Mexico off Pensacola. The criminal complaint against Odom, 46, was lodged by the United States Coast Guard Investigative Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Garrett Dean Thomas, 23, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge David Bramlette III to 21 months in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for sexual abuse of a minor within the Pearl River Community of the Choctaw Indian reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and FBI Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement...
