News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two women appeared in federal court today to face allegations that they robbed a Spencer Savings Bank in Garfield, New Jersey, at gunpoint, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced Monday that Joel Palmer, 39, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced in federal court for possession of child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Palmer to 12 years of prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, Palmer will begin a 15-year term of supervised release and will continue to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Chelsea Bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi Convicted for Executing September 2016 Bombing in New York City.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Ask most folks what they would need to find planets orbiting distant stars, and very few will list a bottle of iodine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terry Edwards, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FBI is Seeking Information About a Bank Robbery in Margate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Keith Robinson, 31, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner on Oct. 12, 2017, to serve 18 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 224.11 grams of heroin, which is the equivalent of 8,964 individual doses of heroin, with a retail value of $89,644 at $10 per bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Emil Vladimirov Babadjov, 32, a Bulgarian and U.S. dual-national formerly residing in San Francisco, California, pleaded guilty today to distributing controlled substances, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will today introduce legislation repealing the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016 after media reports indicated that it had dramatically restricted the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to crack down on opioid distributors suspected of wrongdoing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three doctors were each sentenced today to over two years in prison for taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos and Acting Assistant Secretary Jackson...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. -- In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management will offer 208 parcels in Nye County totaling approximately 388,959.402 acres in the Ely District at its December quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The BLM will hold the lease sale online via www.energynet.com.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: The Mesa Verde Museum Association (MVMA) Bookstore and tour ticket office will close its Colorado Welcome Center Cortez location at the end of the day on Oct. 28, and will not reopen at this location next year. The Bookstore has operated out of the Welcome Center for over 10 years, and has provided...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Keith Robinson, 31, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Christopher C. Conner on Oct. 12, 2017, to serve 18 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 224.11 grams of heroin, which is the equivalent of 8,964 individual doses of heroin, with a retail value of $89,644 at $10 per bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Was Found Guilty of Defrauding Public Assistance Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: Fraudulently Claimed She Could Save Victims’ Homes from Foreclosure.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jon Paul Dotson, 29, of Madison was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 13, by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to seven months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine in Madison on Nov. 16, 2016. This prison term will be followed by three years of supervised release. Dotson pleaded guilty to this charge on August 4, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that following back-to-back jury trials completed in federal court in Buffalo late last week, two members of the Schuele Boys Gang, Aaron Hicks and Roderick Arrington, both of Buffalo, NY, were convicted of crimes arising out...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Fernando Cabrera, 21, Nygul Anderson, 19, and Albert Gonzalez, 18, all of Monterrey, Mexico, were arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint stemming from the kidnapping and extortion of two men, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
