News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Today, a federal judge sentenced Joseph Mitchell, Sr., 40 to 9 years in prison for his role in a prescription pill mill that trafficked oxycodone and other dangerous and addictive opioids. United States District Court Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro also ordered the defendant to serve 3 years of supervised release upon release from prison, and pay a special assessment of $100. The court also entered a judgment of forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DAMIEN WILSON, age 35, of Chalmette, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Quentin Craig Padilla, 32, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 105 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Padilla’s sentence will run concurrent with a state sentence he is currently serving. Following his prison sentence, Padilla will be placed on five years of supervised release. Padilla was indicted by a federal grand jury on Jan. 12, 2016 and entered his guilty plea on July 6, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Steven D. Griffin, 59, of Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced by Chief Judge Christina Reiss yesterday based on his conviction for making a false statement to a financial institution. Chief Judge Reiss sentenced Griffin to 24 months of home confinement as part of a five-year term of supervised release. The court also sentenced Griffin to pay $500,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, a Martin County resident was convicted of violating the conditions of his bail bond, after he failed to appear for sentencing on federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A variety of inmate art is currently on display at the Robert C. Byrd United States Courthouse in Charleston in preparation for a charity auction to benefit West Virginia youth, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Federal and state inmates, as well as young people in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: An elected Trustee of Clinton Township was arrested by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today based on a criminal complaint charging him with demanding and taking bribes in exchange for his vote on municipal contracts, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - After conducting surveillance on a suspect in a series of armed robberies that targeted Orange County gas stations, federal agents and local authorities last night arrested a Fontana man on federal charges after he allegedly used what appeared to be a handgun to rob a Chevron station in Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Today, a federal judge sentenced Joseph Mitchell, Sr., 40 to 9 years in prison for his role in a prescription pill mill that trafficked oxycodone and other dangerous and addictive opioids. United States District Court Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro also ordered the defendant to serve 3 years of supervised release upon release from prison, and pay a special assessment of $100. The court also entered a judgment of forfeiture.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: In anticipation of this week's predicted storms, Olympic National Park staff is taking the precautionary step of closing a number of roads and campgrounds throughout the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former Monmouth County, New Jersey, resident today admitted collecting Social Security disability checks paid to his wife for more than four years after she died, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Austell, Georgia pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: SHOSHONE, ID. --- The Twin Falls District BLM plans to conduct two prescribed fires in the Shoshone Field Office this fall to burn logging slash piles in the Bell Mountain area east of Bellevue and the South Fork of Lime Creek area northwest of Fairfield. These two prescribed fires are small in size and will be limited to burning debris piles that were created from recent logging operations - residents in the Wood River Valley may notice smoke columns from the burning piles.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Two Akron men were indicted on charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, said U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that Mark Warne, 46, of Brook, Indiana was sentenced before Chief Judge Philip Simon following his guilty plea to Bank Fraud.
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the passing of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: No Charges to Be Filed Against Special Police Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that DERRICK DEJUAN WOOTEN, age 24, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by 36 months of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 13, 2016
News Release: Matthew Simineri, age 21 of Bangor, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment1 with one count of Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, four counts of Manufacturing Child Pornography, four counts of Receipt of Child Pornography, and one count of Transfer of Obscene Material to a Minor, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The charges arose out of the defendant’s online communications with a 9-year old autistic girl.
