News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Darrell W. Hopkins, 21, of Mary Esther, Florida, and Anthony M. Fannin and Katelin N. Kestner, both 20, of Fort Walton Beach, were arraigned this week in federal court after a grand jury returned an indictment charging them with federal firearms offenses. Hopkins was charged with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Skyler Christian Awad (27, Indialantic) guilty of bank robbery, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, attempted robbery affecting interstate commerce, possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Robbery of First Jackson Bank on Battlecreek Road in Kimball, Tennessee on Dec. 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Seattle -- Cardinal Health has agreed to pay $34 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that the Lakeland, Florida-based distributor failed to report to the DEA suspicious orders of Class II controlled substances by pharmacies located in central Florida and Maryland. The settlement also resolves...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Philadelphia - Following a three-week jury trial, a federal jury convicted two key players in a prescription drug conspiracy that illegally distributed more than 380,000 Oxycodone pills, as well as Alprazolam, into communities in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Leon Little, the head of the “Little...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed execution of an Interim Renewal Contract for Central Valley Project water with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the United Nations Security Council vote on Israeli settlement activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today Richard E. Gearhart, 66, of Lowell, Indiana and George R. McKown, 65, of Indianapolis, Indiana, were recently charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud, and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Alfred Laquan Thomas, 31, of Rome, New York, pled guilty today to possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Darrell W. Hopkins, 21, of Mary Esther, Florida, and Anthony M. Fannin and Katelin N. Kestner, both 20, of Fort Walton Beach, were arraigned this week in federal court after a grand jury returned an indictment charging them with federal firearms offenses. Hopkins was charged with ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: He Possessed Two Shotgun Shells Following an August 2012 Shooting Incident in Syracuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: (NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the filing and settlement of a civil lawsuit involving Controlled Substances (CSA) claims brought...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against ABRAHAM STRULOVITCH to require him to remedy conditions at two rental complexes in the Bronx and in Orange County to make them accessible to people with disabilities and to ensure that two rental complexes currently under construction by STRULOVITCH in the Bronx will be accessible.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Last Defendant in $48 Million Dollar Cigarette Tax Fraud Scheme Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: The Recovery Is Part of a $44 Million Nationwide Civil Penalty Settlement with Payment to Be Made to the United States by Cardinal Health, Inc. and its Subsidiary, Kinray, LLC.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - As the National Park Service (NPS) prepares for a second century of service, Grand Canyon National Park celebrates the significant accomplishments of the NPS centennial celebration and looks ahead to its own park centennial in 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: This fall, the Natchez Trace Parkway partnered with the Southeast Conservation Corps to accomplish much needed trail improvements for the Jeff Busby and the Yockanookany Section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail. Southeast Conservation Corps operates conservation service programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today Richard E. Gearhart, 66, of Lowell, Indiana and George R. McKown, 65, of Indianapolis, Indiana, were recently charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, securities fraud, and wire fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that American Hydroponics Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the President-elect's recent suggestion to increase the U.S. nuclear arsenal...
