News from September 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LORRAINE SHANLEY pled guilty today to bank fraud and subscribing to false and fraudulent individual income tax returns in connection with fraudulently obtaining over $400,000 from a charity providing...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management successfully auctioned 8 grazing units within the McGregor Range in southern New Mexico. The bids ranged from $35 to $43 per animal unit month (AUM), yielding $924,761 for McGregor Range management and improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Brian Ryan, Town of Greenburgh Police Chief, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announces the final installment of Evening at the Cape programming on Friday, October 4th, and Saturday, October 5th, 2019. The twilight Ranger-led excursions feature a ferry ride at dusk, and a chance to take in the view from the Cape Lookout Lighthouse around sunset.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three members of the Modesto Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club, including the Club's Vice President and Secretary, were charged yesterday in four separate indictments, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Hell's Angels Vice President Michael Shafer, 31, of Modesto, was charged with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Enrique Ramirez, age 27, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,300.00 in fines for Possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Cody Metter, 31, formerly of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 87 months in prison by Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for receipt of child pornography. There is no parole in the federal prison system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rogelio Mueses, 26, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, butyryl fentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, and fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s Strategy for Combating Terrorism and Targeted Violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - With help from the Multi Agency Gang Unit and the Memphis Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force was able to arrest two suspects accused of violent crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: GLENNALLEN, AK - The Bureau of Land Management’s Glennallen Field Office is seeking public comments on a proposal by Copper Valley Telecom to construct a wireless communication site in Paxson that would upgrade and enhance wireless service along the Richardson and Denali Highways.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2019
News Release: On Thursday, a federal jury convicted Ira Lee Wilkins, 38, of Tulsa, for being a felon in possession of a Hi-Point C9 9 mm pistol and associated ammunition, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Chucky Ellis, 22, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession of a firearm with an altered or obliterated serial number. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Dana Q. Roush, age 38, of Greenville, was found guilty of a conspiracy to commit mail fraud and equity skimming. A federal jury returned guilty verdicts late Wednesday evening after an hour and a half of deliberation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - National Park Service staff closed the doors on livestock trailers yesterday, securing 31 bison inside to transfer them to the InterTribal Buffalo Council who will take them on the journey to join their new herd with the Quapaw tribe in Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Coca, 46, of Las Vegas, N.M., appeared in federal court in Albuquerque today on a federal complaint charging him with possession with intent to distribute cocaine and robbery by interference with commerce by threats or violence.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan is traveling to New York to participate in a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Naturalization Ceremony for new Americans. The Acting Secretary will administer the Oath of Allegiance to the participants, who will complete the final step in the process of becoming a U.S. citizen by taking the oath.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2019) – Today, all former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture since President Reagan’s Administration announced support for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In a letter to Congressional leaders, former Secretaries John Block (Reagan), Mike Espy (Clinton), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: A Wisconsin man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for producing and possessing child pornography in 2015 and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in the Philippines between 2014 and 2015.
