News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Faizal Bhimani, age 41, of Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, and Om Sri Sai, Inc., doing business as a hotel operator in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Oct. 24, 2017, by a federal grand jury on sex and drug trafficking charges. The case was unsealed yesterday following the arrest of Bhimani.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after reports that John Kapoor, the former CEO of opioid manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, was arrested on multiple federal charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fifteen individuals, including twelve Florida residents, have been charged in a multi-million dollar international money laundering and fraud scheme in two Indictments.
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
Release: Report on Serious Human Rights Abuses or Censorship in North Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Two Cleveland residents were sentenced to prison for defrauding a bank out of at least $76,000 by using fake identities, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dickson Gutierrez, age 41, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Oct. 24, 2017, by a federal grand jury for cocaine trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Faizal Bhimani, age 41, of Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, and Om Sri Sai, Inc., doing business as a hotel operator in Bartonsville, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Oct. 24, 2017, by a federal grand jury on sex and drug trafficking charges. The case was unsealed yesterday following the arrest of Bhimani.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Indictment is first since Attorney General Sessions announced the formation of the Opioid and Abuse Detection Unit, a Department of Justice initiative that uses data to target and prosecute individuals that are contributing to the nation’s opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: A suburban Pittsburgh physician has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy and unlawfully distributing controlled substances, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The indictment of Andrzej Kazimierz Zielke, 62, is the first since Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX- This week, Victoria Lynn Buckinghorse, 25, of Whippoorwill, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 198 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Buckinghorse had previously pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fifteen individuals, including twelve Florida residents, have been charged in a multi-million dollar international money laundering and fraud scheme in two Indictments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: SOUTH BEND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Lawrence Holley, age 45, of South Bend, Indiana was charged with possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine; possession with intent to deliver heroin; possession with intent to deliver cocaine; felon in possession of a firearm; and armed drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On Oct. 25, 2017, a federal jury convicted Dontae Small, age 43, of Baltimore, Maryland on conspiracy, carjacking, and destruction of government property, after he rammed a stolen car into a security gate at the National Security Agency in Ft. Meade, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Guatemalan citizen today admitted transporting three kilograms of heroin that had been coated in chocolate in a failed attempt to bring the drugs undetected through Newark Liberty International Airport, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Calling all fourth graders to America’s public lands! Once again, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is sponsoring the Every Kid in a Park program in partnership with other federal land management agencies. This supports the administration’s priority of connecting kids to public lands and America’s natural and cultural heritage.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Defendant allegedly helped smuggle money overseas for the “Codfather".
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, acting National Park Service Director Michael T. Reynolds announced the selection of Laura E. Joss as superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Joss currently serves as the regional director for the Park Service’s Pacific West Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX- This week, Victoria Lynn Buckinghorse, 25, of Whippoorwill, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 198 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Buckinghorse had previously pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc., was arrested today and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: In honor of Native peoples' contributions to American culture, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will host special events each weekend in November to commemorate National Native American Heritage Month. Native Americans have added to every area of endeavor in American life. They built North America's earliest cities, domesticated its first crops, and developed its earliest great civilizations.
