News from November 2017
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: RAYMOND, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited a Nebraska grain-handling cooperative for failing to protect workers from grain bin entrapment and engulfment hazards. The company faces $373,911 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: THREE DEFENDANTS CONVICTED ON ALL COUNTS FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD SCHEME INVOLVING 14 PROPERTIES.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: EL PASO - Americans nationwide did their part to reduce the opioid crisis by bringing the DEA and its more than 4,200 local and tribal law enforcement partners a record-setting 912,305 pounds-456 tons-of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs for disposal at more than...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - More than a dozen alleged gang members and gang associates are set to appear in federal court Wednesday to face a variety of charges that include sex trafficking, drug trafficking, unlawfully selling firearms, human smuggling and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that on Monday, November 6, 2017, Mark Edward Brewster, M.D., of Traverse City, Michigan, was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison. The sentence followed Brewster’s pleading guilty to writing fraudulent prescriptions to obtain controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Three local men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Marco Zuniga, 25, Frank Flores, 25, Chance Nutt, 40, and Clifton Johnson,42, all had previously pleaded guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that on Monday, November 6, 2017, Mark Edward Brewster, M.D., of Traverse City, Michigan, was sentenced to 10 months’ incarceration following his guilty plea to writing fraudulent prescriptions to obtain controlled substances. Brewster...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In the wake of today’s news that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is forming a new federal advisory committee to promote trophy hunting overseas, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said that Zinke should drop the project and focus on overseeing hunting regulations here in the United States - including the permitting laws his wife’s political client, Troy Downing, stands accused of violating in Zinke’s home state of Montana.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- R. Trent Shores, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, announced that the Grand Jury handed down a “True Bill" and issued an Indictment against five defendants, charging them with eight counts to include heroin conspiracy, possession of heroin with intent to distribute...
By State Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: nt’s Plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joel C. Jacob, 22, East Meadow, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute MDMA, also known as “Molly," was sentenced to 36 months probation to include six months home detention by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Rafael P. Leal, 39, a Brazilian national who most recently lived in Boston, Mass., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., to 235 months in federal prison and ordered deported upon completion of his term of incarceration for enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: BELLEVUE, NE - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bimbo Bakeries USA for exposing workers to multiple hazards at its Bellevue commercial bakery. The company faces $122,625 in proposed penalties.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: ROLLA, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Anderson Foot and Ankle Clinic for potentially exposing employees to infectious materials, and for violations of the hazard communication standard. The agency proposed penalties totaling $93,074.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm that he stole during a series of home burglaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Michael Vicente, 29, of Waterbury, Connecticut, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute oxycodone. He pleaded guilty on June 1, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The 2017 Bureau of Land Management Nevada and TravelNevada photo contest winners have been selected. This is the second year the contest was held in partnership with TravelNevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: A Colombian citizen was extradited from Colombia to the United States today to face a four-count federal indictment in the Southern District of Florida for encouraging and inducing aliens to come to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of illegal reentry after deportation, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - November 8, 2017 - Anthony Patrick Sanders, 27, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
