WASHINGTON, June 19 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: The last defendant of the six La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who were convicted at two separate federal trials was sentenced today. The six defendants were sentenced for racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and offenses related to the murders of four men in 2019. According to court documents and evidence presented in the two trials, the six defendants were members of MS  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: The last defendant of the six La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who were convicted at two separate federal trials was sentenced today. The six defendants were sentenced for racketeering conspiracy, narcotics conspiracy, and offenses related to the murders of four men in 2019. According to court documents and evidence presented in the t  more

HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, June 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on June 18, 2024: Melvin Pearson Jones, 40, of Huntington, was sentenced today to six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, on August 3, 2023, Jones sold a quantity of fentanyl to a confidential informant at his Huntington apartm  more

WASHINGTON, June 20 -- The White House sent to the Senate on June 18, 2024, the nominations of eight individuals for positions in the federal government: * * * * Mark Angelson, of New York, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Norway. * Elizabeth M. Aubin, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to t  more