News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A licensed pharmacist, Kumi Frimpong, who owned and operated the Cornerstone Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, was sentenced this morning for his involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced Clyde E. Shelley, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man who defrauded investors, renters, and a bank, and who attempted to illegally acquire a firearm, was sentenced today to 8 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A Miami-area man was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged participation in a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct community mental health center located in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jerry Ba Nguyen, 25, of Las Vegas, was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 36 months in federal custody for interfering with flight crew members and attendants, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Baldemar Solis, aka “Balt," 45, formerly of Arlington, Texas was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John McBryde to Life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Evans Landscaping, Inc.; the owner of Evans Landscaping, Inc., Doug Evans, 55, of Cincinnati; and the vice president of operations for Evans Landscaping, Jim Bailey, 49, of Cincinnati, with charges related to allegedly defrauding the City of Cincinnati and other public entities through fraudulent small business and minority business contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. June 9, 2017 - Immediately after completing the test burn in the first segment of the Ash Mountain Prescribed Burn on June 7, 2017, firefighters from the National Park Service ceased operations due to the start of a wildfire outside of the parks in the community of Three Rivers and responded to assist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Chemical could yield up to 19 million fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of over $570 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, has completed a Preliminary Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Dodge Family Trust Color of Title Project. Public comments will be accepted through June 22, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico and Colorado state offices yesterday sold a combined 87 parcels at their quarterly oil and gas lease sales, totaling approximately 67,499 acres and netting $4,735,508 including rentals and fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A former officer with the Providence Police Department, located in Webster County, Kentucky, was charged by federal grand jury indictment this week, with two counts of willfully depriving an arrestee of his constitutional rights under color of law, and one count of falsifying a document, announced the Justice Department and John E. Kuhn, Jr., United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jerry Ba Nguyen, 25, of Las Vegas, was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 36 months in federal custody for interfering with flight crew members and attendants, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb, and Shelly Binkowski, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Field Division, made the announcement today that 50 kilograms of a fentanyl precursor chemical, with a street value of over $570 million, was seized at a storage facility in Northborough on May 25, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to five years in prison for using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today announced several hearings for the coming weeks. The full committee hearings will examine the president’s budget requests for the U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior and Department of Energy for Fiscal Year 2018. The subcommittee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: On June 6, 2017, a Williamson County man was indicted for a methamphetamine offense, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, charging Donald Rice, age 54, of Middletown, Delaware, with wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering and tax offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
Release: On Apr. 25, 2017, I represented the Trump Administration before the "Bloomberg Future of Energy Global Summit" in New York City. In my remarks, I stated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: A Miami-area man was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his alleged participation in a $63 million health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct community mental health center located in Miami.
