News from September 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LEILANI ASPURIA, age 25, of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute ketamine which resulted in the death of a Slidell, Louisiana teenager. The eighteen year old’s dead body was found floating in a Texas bayou.

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the eighteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks...

By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Public meeting to be held October 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man who was shot by an Independence, Missouri, police officer as he attempted to strike the officer with his truck before leading officers on a high-speed chase, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A West Hamlin man pled guilty to using Snap Chat to make a bomb threat directed at local high school, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. William Lee McCallister, also known as Kreekchub, 24, pled guilty to Threatening and Conveying False Information Concerning the Use of an Explosive Device.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Arnold Gerard Nelson, Jr. (33, Tampa) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison and James Thomas Lang, III (33, Tampa) to 11years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute at least100 grams...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayetteville woman was sentenced to federal prison for heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine trafficking, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Jessical Lynn Hall, 29, was sentenced to 71 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, along with quantities of heroin and fentanyl. Upon completing her prison sentence, Hall will serve an additional term of four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States Judge District James C. Dever III sentenced GERICK TURNER, 41, of New Hanover County to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: For Her Part Of A Scheme That Diverted Over $800K From Her Employer.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: SPARKS, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation joined its partners today at Derby Dam to celebrate the start of a $23.3-million infrastructure project that promises to greatly improve passage for Lahontan cutthroat trout journeying to upstream rearing and spawning habitat for the first time in a century.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Aaron Donquwe Perkins Sentenced to 180 months for Unlawfully Possessing a 9mm Pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DERRICK GROVES, age 22, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty Sept. 10, 2019 to federal firearms and narcotics violations.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Maria Bassi Lauro (65, Davenport) with six counts of mailing threatening communications and transmitting false information and hoaxes. If convicted on all counts, Lauro faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Individual Who May Have Information Regarding the Identity of a Child Sexual Assault Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Maria Bassi Lauro (65, Davenport) with six counts of mailing threatening communications and transmitting false information and hoaxes. If convicted on all counts, Lauro faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWIN DeJESUS, 48, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 64 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA, Mont. - A Montana woman was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: On Sunday, September 22 at 2 p.m. Homestead National Monument of America artist-in-residence Nancy Lehenbauer Marshall will present her program “Discovering Place through Painting" in the Homestead National Monument of America Education Center. During her presentation, Nancy will show some of the many painting she has created over her forty year career and discuss how creating art allows us to feel empathy for place and for others.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Katie Fysh, 33, of Groveton, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that DERRICK GROVES, age 22, of New Orleans, has pleaded guilty Sept. 10, 2019 to federal firearms and narcotics violations.