News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Atlanta Division Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015 from 10 a.m. to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of an information and plea agreement charging Sandra K. Shepherd (53, Tampa) with making a false statement to the Social Security Administration. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000. In her plea agreement, Shepherd has also agreed to make full restitution to the Social Security Administration program (SSA), or its designee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Forty-one individuals are facing drug trafficking charges as a result of an eight-month multi-agency investigation led by the FBI, the DEA, Chaves County Metro Narcotics Task Force, Roswell Police Department, Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, the New Mexico State Police. Twenty-one of the defendants charged are facing federal charges and the remaining 20 are facing state charges.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - The paved portion of the Trail of the Cedars Nature Trail will be closed temporarily to complete repaving on Thursday, September 24. Signs will be posted on the trail during the temporary closure. The Trail of the Cedars Nature Trail is a wheelchair accessible trail located near Avalanche Creek Campground along Going-to-the-Sun Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Robert “Meech" Tucker, age 23, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to the federal crime of possession of a gun by a previously convicted felon.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Aluminum Shapes LLC, 9000 River Road, Delair, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Kodiak man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Michael Ensley, 51, of Kodiak, pled guilty to the offense on June 1, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued the following statement in response to the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) revelation that the fingerprints of an additional 4.5 million individuals were stolen as a result of the data breach announced on July 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo announced that $202,098 in federal grant funds have been awarded to the Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe in support of its tribal justice system. The grant funds were awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (“BJA"), which is a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (“OJP").
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Pullman, Washington, developed Hampton, a new edible dry pea variety that resists multiple pathogens of this legume crop. Two pathogens of particular concern are the pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) and bean leaf roll virus (BLRV). In severe cases, both of these aphid-borne pathogens can inflict crop losses of 80 to 90 percent, according to Rebecca McGee, a plant geneticist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: DEA South Carolina District Office to Hold 10th Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that charges were filed late yesterday against a Shohola, Pennsylvania man resulting from his attempt to avoid being stopped by Park Rangers at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Ming Lian Zhou for making false statements to a government agency about paying his employees overtime wages and for threatening his employees with economic harm if they did not return their wages to him, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Department of Labor Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Abel Salinas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Steven Baker, age 35, of Holly Hill, and Ray Roberson, age 68, of Cottageville, have been sentenced in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for Wildlife Trafficking (Lacey Act violations) under 16 U.S.C. ?? 3372(a)(2)(A) and 3373(d)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., there will be over 50 collection sites throughout the El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico area to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An Ottawa man was indicted Wednesday on a charge of making an interstate phone call threatening to bash in the head of a Kansas City, Mo., lawyer, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli regarding serious new allegations that his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, is “harming AIDS patients by delaying the provision of Daraprim in direct violation of federal anti-discrimination regulations."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: HELENA - Dennis Peiker, 61, of Lincoln, Montana, pleaded guilty today to one count of tax evasion and two counts of felon in possession of a firearm. The charges stemmed from two indictments arising from years of tax evasion and firearms found at Peiker’s residence in 2011 and 2015. Peiker appeared before District Court Judge Charles Lovell in Helena to enter the guilty pleas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KENNETH JOHNSON, SR., age 52, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, was sentenced today after previously pleading nolo contendere (no contest) to conspiring to pay kickbacks in a federal debris removal contract and two counts of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for his role in two bank robberies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
