News from April 2018
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service (NPS) and Active Southern West Virginia (Active SWV) have entered into the third year of a successful partnership known as the “Get Active in the Park" program. The program helps connect local residents to the national parks of southern West Virginia by offering...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. -A Charleston man was sentenced today to 188 months -- almost 16 years -- in prison for a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Clarence Murray, 41, previously pled guilty to distribution of heroin. Stuart praised the joint efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) for their work during this investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former owner of restaurants in Boston and Chelsea was charged yesterday in federal court in Boston with committing fraud to obtain U.S. citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - The president and owner of a Florida pharmacy that was at the center of a massive compounding pharmacy fraud scheme, which impacted private insurance companies, Medicare and TRICARE, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison and ordered to pay $54 million in restitution for his role in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Alex “Lex" Hernandez, 27, most recently of Lowell, Massachusetts, was sentenced in federal court to 70 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Pills Being Sold as Oxycodone Can Lead to Overdose and Death.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A previously convicted sex offender from Colorado has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a series of child exploitation charges after allegedly meeting a 15-year-old girl in Colorado, taking her on a 3½-month road trip that ended in Southern California, and producing child pornography that depicted sexual acts with the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Baltimore, Maryland man has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on March 20, 2018 on a heroin distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 107,600 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Modesto physician, Sawtantra Kumar Chopra, 71, was arrested today, charged with prescribing opioids to patients outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose. On April 19, 2018, a federal grand jury in Fresno brought a 22-count indictment against Chopra. He was arrested at his home in Modesto.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing on “Worker-Management Relations: Examining the Need to Modernize Federal Labor Law."
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today voted to confirm Richard Grenell as U.S. Ambassador to Germany. The Senate approved the nomination by a vote of 56 to 42. The committee reported the nomination favorably to the full Senate in October of 2017 and again in January. Excerpts from Corker’s remarks on the Senate floor in advance of the vote follow.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Hedgesville, West Virginia man has been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg on March 20, 2018 on a cocaine distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management proposes to extend for another 20 years a mineral withdrawal in the Whiskey Mountain Bighorn Sheep Winter Range, southeast of Dubois.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee will join the Drug Enforcement Administration on April 28, 2018 for its 15th Annual 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nolan Donald, 19, of Lyndonville, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and being an unlawful user in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: 2018 National Environmental Justice Conference and Training Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DERRELL JOSEPH, age 38, of Reserve, pled guilty today to charges relating to narcotics trafficking and illegal possession of firearms.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement announcing that the committee will postpone today’s scheduled markup of H.R. 5592...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A previously convicted sex offender from Colorado has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a series of child exploitation charges after allegedly meeting a 15-year-old girl in Colorado, taking her on a 3½-month road trip that ended in Southern California, and producing child pornography that depicted sexual acts with the victim.
