News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Defendant was Previously Deported Seven Times and Arrested Six Times for DUI.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. - Gregorio Xolotl-Hipolito, 42, an illegal alien from Mexico, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Mr. William Joyce, Acting Field Office Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations, in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was arrested yesterday and charged with possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Akron, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
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 Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO, Idaho - James Clifford Goodwin, III, 46, of Downey, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possessing sexually explicit images of minors, Brad Bench of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug trafficking and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: The Department of Veterans Affairs - Office of Inspector General and Department of Justice Announce Veterans Affairs Health Care Fraud Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Rochester, New York man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base and fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Floyd Edward Roby, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for recruiting minors on Facebook to participate in sex acts with him and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Deyao Chen, Guichun Chen, and Liangtu Pan a/k/a Liang Pan, all of the People’s Republic of China, have been charged by indictment with the following: conspiracy to import controlled substances (one count); conspiracy to distribute...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
Release: MANHATTAN, KANSAS, Oct. 1, 2019-Dr. Alfonso Clavijo has been appointed as Director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), a state-of-the-art U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research and diagnostic facility designed to protect the nation's agricultural systems and stakeholders ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro the of the FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Matthew Tassin, 37, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was sentenced to prison last week on federal child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Carmen Liseno, of Cabins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 92 months incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: MANHATTAN, KANSAS, Oct. 1, 2019-Dr. Alfonso Clavijo has been appointed as Director of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF ), a state-of-the-art U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) research and diagnostic facility designed to protect the nation's agricultural systems and stakeholders against the threat and potential impact of serious animal diseases.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the President announced his intent to nominate James Danly to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: NORMAN, Okla.-The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Lawrence, Kan., on Oct. 25-26, at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. The two-day event, featuring 65 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 25. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, October 26. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A man who robbed a Burger King shift manager at gunpoint was sentenced Sept. 30, 2019, to spend 30 years in federal prison announced United States Attorney David C. Joseph. Ivory Carl Myles, 30, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2019
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - Condor chick #1000 has set another milestone for the California Condor Recovery Program. On Sept. 25, 2019, chick #1000 took its first flight from its nest cave in Zion National Park, becoming the first wild-hatched chick to successfully fledge within Zion National Park since recovery...
