News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Haji Najibullah, Previously Charged in 2008 Kidnapping of American Journalist, Indicted for 2008 Attacks on U.S. Servicemembers in Afghanistan, Including Murders of Three American Soldiers and Afghan Interpreter and Downing of U.S. Helicopter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - Patsy Truglia (53, Parkland) has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and one count of making a false statement in a matter involving a health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Monday, Landis Grant Yellow, 29, of Shonto, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 78 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Yellow previously pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging four individuals with making a false statement during the purchase of firearms and possession of firearms by a person with prior misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was sentenced yesterday for conspiring to distribute fentanyl and cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today praised the Biden administration’s decision to restore Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. The move comes on the eve of Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, Oct. 11. President Biden’s action...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sentenced Courtney Williams to 60 months in federal prison today for methamphetamine charges.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Edgar Allan Poe is visiting Friendship Hill, just in time for Halloween! The Friends of Fort Necessity, in partnership with the National Park Service and the Friendship Hill Association, are pleased to host the famous author at Friendship Hill, the historic home of Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that COREY C. LEWIS, age 33, was sentenced today to serve 84 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm. The sentence was imposed by United States District Judge Matthew T. Schelp at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Thomas J. Joslin, age 58, of North Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today in federal court in Syracuse to 3 years of probation after previously pleading guilty to three felony counts of stealing gift cards from the mail while employed as a carrier with the United States Postal Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Defendant was also in possession of a sawed-off shotgun.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SAMANTHA R DEHRING, age 25 of Carol Stream, Illinois, pleaded guilty to willfully remaining, approaching, and photographing wildlife within 100 yards. The other count, feeding, touching, teasing, frightening, or intentionally disturbing wildlife...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Brittish “Cierrah" Williams had her initial appearance today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Shirley P. Mensah. Williams was indicted on Sept. 22, 2001 with five felony charges of misuse of a social security number, four charges of bank fraud, three charges of making false statements to the IRS, three charges of wire fraud, and three charges of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Frank Darrell Cromwell, 25, of Boone, N.C., to 25 years in prison for producing child pornography, announced William T. Stetzer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Cromwell was also ordered to pay special assessments in the amount of $55,100, to serve a lifetime of supervised release, and to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: I. Illegal Reentry After Deportation (8 U.S.C. 1326).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: DEL RIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced this week to 15 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: GREENVILLE, N.C. - Miguel Marquis Hutchinson, 35, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday to 90 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. -Tidas Thompson, also known as Titus Thomas, 44, of Stockbridge, Georgia, was indicted on Sept. 21, 2021, for charges related to drug trafficking and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - Signal Peak Energy, LLC, which operates an underground coal mine near Roundup, today admitted to criminal charges that it willfully violated health and safety standards and has agreed to pay a $1 million fine as part of proposed plea agreement, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Michael Walker, 41, of Craigsville, was sentenced today to six months in prison for possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
