News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: A Broward county man pled guilty today to production and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Morgan City man pleaded guilty Thursday to using the internet to download and possess child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Oct. 11, 2017, a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging JOHN J. McCARTHY, 63, of Newtown, with one count of armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration will join forces tomorrow with more than 4,000 local, tribal, and community partners at more than 5,000 collection sites to collect potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. The effort will help prevent these drugs, including opioids, from falling into the wrong hands and contributing to a lethal drug abuse epidemic in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Three defendants were sentenced this week for unrelated child pornography crimes, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced. The three cases were investigated by the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) sent a letter to the Department of Justice requesting information related to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) enforcement of controlled substance laws. In recent years, opioid cases pursued by the DEA have decreased, while opioid use in the country has increased.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan Tokash, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, the defendant was on federal supervised release since April 25, 2017, after serving 70 months in prison for his February 2013 conviction on charges of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine and crack cocaine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Gibson Buckley Condie, 57, of Powell, Wyoming, pled guilty in federal court on Oct. 27, 2017, to health care fraud involving mental health services falsely billed to Wyoming Medicaid, announced Acting United States Attorney John R. Green. Condie, who is a licensed psychologist, had been indicted by...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: HOPE Initiative Partners Support DEA’s 14th National Take Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - In a first for this district, a 44-year-old former Richmond man has been found guilty for systematically torturing a former girlfriend by sending horrific images and threatening email messages, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. The jury returned its verdict just a short time ago against Heriberto Latigo following five days of trial and less than two hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sylvain Desjardins, 48, of Maribel, Canada, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possessing 290 pounds of cocaine in a plane that went down near Athens, Ohio on March 29.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (IG) John Roth requesting a comprehensive audit and investigation of a $300 million no-bid contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Association (PREPA) and Whitefish Energy Holdings, LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged on Wed., Oct. 25, 2017, with drug crimes related to his role in a wide-ranging operation that distributed cocaine and fentanyl throughout Boston and Cape Cod.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Wilder Arreola-Medel, age 45, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (40 days in jail) for transporting a Mexican citizen who had illegally entered the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General (IG) John Roth requesting a comprehensive audit and investigation of a $300 million no-bid contract between the Puerto Rico Electric Power Association (PREPA) and Whitefish Energy Holdings, LLC.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, will join the DEA on October 28th for its 14th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. The biannual event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at thousands of collection sites around the country, including 19 here in the Southern District of Florida. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DELTOINE SCOTT, age 24, JEROME KIEFFER, age 24, and JEROME’s father, ARMSTEAD KIEFFER, age 53, all of New Orleans, were charged yesterday in a nine-count Second Superseding Indictment. The Second Superseding Indictment includes charges of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Nashville District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold its 14th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017 from 10...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant, a Citizen of Uzbekistan, Purchased Airline Ticket to Travel Overseas to Join ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2017
News Release: REDDING, Calif. -- With the return of cooler weather, the Bureau of Land Management today rescinded fire restrictions on public lands managed by the Redding Field Office in Shasta, Trinity, Butte, Siskiyou and Tehama counties.
