News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced Cesar Osiris DeLeon-Castillo (36, Clermont) and Jefry Agustin Valerio-Perez (39, Orlando) to 5 years and 4 years and nine months in federal prison, respectively, for possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram of heroin. DeLeon-Castillo and Valerio-Perez had pleaded guilty in June 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $157 million in airport infrastructure grants to 34 airports in 19 states, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands. This is the sixth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Wesley Wilson, Jr., 43, has been sentenced to 140 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: A Rochester, New York man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for distributing heroin and conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that two Brazilian citizens living in Canada, Tiago Mello-Lima, 32, and Renan Portela Bandeira De Souza, 32, have been charged by a federal grand jury in a 13-count indictment which charges them with conspiracy to bring aliens to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Mr. Shannon Robert Bell, 53, has been indicted on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography. Bell was arraigned this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah M. Smith, and is a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, where he was employed as a clinical therapist at multiple inpatient treatment facilities for children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A New York man was sentenced here in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison and fined $30,000 for conspiring to illegally purchase firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the upcoming flight plans for October 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: An Eastport, Maine man was sentenced today in federal court in Bangor for possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Moctezuma “Mo" Tovar sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Kane County man has been sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for producing and sharing images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Sues Owners and Managers of Rental Properties in Honolulu, Hawaii for Discriminating Against Families with Children.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers removed a Turkish national Sept. 16, wanted in his home country to serve the almost four years remaining on his imposed prison sentence. Ozgur Mavruk, 37, was removed from the United States via a commercial air flight and transferred into the custody of Turkish law enforcement authorities.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: Late on Sunday, Sept. 29, Cade Edmond Siemers, a 48-year-old U.S. citizen currently living in India, suffered severe burns to a significant portion of his body after falling into thermal water near the cone of Old Faithful Geyser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued warning letters to four website owners of rogue online pharmacies offering to distribute or dispense controlled substances, including opioids, and advertising their sale in violation of federal law. This is the first time the agencies have issued such letters jointly. Combined, these website operators run 10 websites engaged in illegal activity.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: TAOS, N.M. - Beginning Oct. 8, 2019, and continuing for up to 30 days, the Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns on approximately 1,735 acres in the Río Grande del Norte National Monument. The burns are located on the east side of Cerro Montoso, 12 miles northeast of Tres Piedras, N.M., and on the south side of Cerro del Aire (Wind Mountain), 4 miles northeast of Tres Pierdras, N.M. Smoke may be visible from Highways US 285 and US 64.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Ryan Smith, 56, was charged in a criminal complaint with the Sept. 22, 2019 robbery, affecting interstate commerce, of Family Dollar in Griffith, Indiana, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2019
News Release: This afternoon a 75-year-old male from Downsville, New York died in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) near Hatteras, North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) today issued the following statement after President Trump signed H.R. 4378, a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through Nov. 21 and avoid a government shutdown at the end of the month.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement on Afghanistan's election...
