News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Lottery Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - The last defendant remaining in a Shreveport/Bossier City area methamphetamine distribution case was sentenced Monday to more than 15 (188 months) in prison, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley and Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a four-count indictment charging two Albanian nationals from New York with allegedly conspiring to break into a Smithfield, R.I., Target department store in October by cutting a hole in the roof, prying open an ATM inside the store and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Steven Dedual, Jr., 45, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, pled guilty in United States District Court to accessing the internet with the intent to view child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr. of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody Jr. today sentenced Samuel Priester to four years in federal prison for tax fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also ordered him to forfeit the proceeds from the offense and to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $152,418.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CLAUDE CARNAHAN, 54, of Westport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $984,000 from his employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for November 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Stephen Chang, age 29, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane to 262 months’ imprisonment for travel with intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct (3 counts) and coercion of sexual activity from a minor (2 counts).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court on Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The man possessed three handguns -- two of which were stolen -- after having been convicted of at least 14 prior felony convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Valerie A. Nickerson, Special Agent in (SAC) of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, announced that New Jersey residents turned in 14,527 pounds or 7.2 tons of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions during DEA’s 14th National Prescription Take Back Day on October 28. Nationally, more than 912,000 pound or 456 tons of prescription medications were collected.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of health care fraud, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT WALTER MURRAY pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud. In November 2016, MURRAY conducted a scheme to manipulate the market for the stock of Fitbit, Inc. (“Fitbit") by...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that NICHOLAS MITSAKOS was sentenced today to 30 months in prison on charges of conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud in connection with his operation of a purported hedge fund called Matrix...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and two organizations focused on Internet safety recently named the Savannah River Site management and operations contractor a champion of cyber security awareness.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Simi Valley man who admitted that he distributed child pornography - including a video with a filename indicating an 8-year-old girl was being abused - has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.
