News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: DAYTON - Shellie Woods, 42, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 300 months in prison for conspiracy to commit kidnapping as well as robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On May 23, 2016, a former resident of Pittsburgh and Gibsonia, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Civic, religious and community leaders joined top law enforcement personnel today to continue an ongoing dialogue about building trust between law enforcement and the Chicagoland community.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeking Tips on Vehicle Possibly Connected to Asha Degree Disappearance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Andrew Barrett, a New York pharmacist and pharmacy owner, pleaded guilty to health care fraud and filing false tax returns. From January 2011 to December 2012, Barrett operated pharmacies in Bronx, Rockland, and Queens counties in New York State. From his Queens pharmacy, Barrett fraudulently...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: A member of the same gang as Jamal Dean, who made false statements while testifying as a witness at the sentencing of Jamal Dean, was convicted by a jury on April 12, 2016, after a two-day trial in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOL Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Toledo...
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: The second artist of the 2016 Artist-in-Residence program at Homestead National Monument of America, Casey Whittier, will be presenting a program based on her work at the monument on Sunday, June 5, 2016, 2 p.m. at the Education Center. Whittier is a ceramicist and installation artist. Her practice explores...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage husband and wife were indicted by a federal grand jury on 14 charges of wire fraud and a scheme to defraud. In a separate indictment, the husband was charged with narcotics and firearms crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man was convicted by a federal jury today for his role as a heroin and cocaine supplier to a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Ocean and Monmouth Counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Dr. Edward Neil Feldman (76, Tampa) to 25 years in federal prison for conspiracy to prescribe controlled substances not for a legitimate medical purpose and not in the usual course of professional practice, for prescribing controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: International Arms Trafficker Found Guilty for Conspiring to Kill Americans and Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Franklin Latimore has been sentenced to thirteen years, three months in federal prison for possessing an unregistered machine gun while being a felon. Latimore is considered a “career offender" under federal law because he has two prior felony convictions for either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote H.R. 5283, the Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures Act of 2016 (Due Process Act) to strengthen protections for Americans’ property through civil asset forfeiture reform.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys W. Mark Conover (619) 546-6763 or Shane P. Harrigan (619) 546-6981.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - An Ensley man indicted in Atlanta last month as a high-ranking member of the violent Gangster Disciples Gang was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Alabama for distributing heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the encouraging findings from a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that shows how agencies have made progress in addressing the vulnerabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to illegally obtain and distribute oxycodone in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: Loretta Mays Admits to Applying for Credit in Town of Coeburn’s Name.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and Colonel William J. Bryant, Director of the Arkansas State Police, announced today that Amber Johnson, age 30, of Wynne, Arkansas, was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for sex trafficking of children.
