News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Dana Nichols of the New Orleans Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), today announced the activation of ATF’s National Response Team (NRT) to join the investigation of an Apr. 23 large commercial complex fire located at 3534 Toulouse ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Travis J. Stinson, 40, of Milford, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 7½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for stealing firearms from a licensed firearms dealer and for being a felon in possession of firearms. He was also ordered to pay $3,657 in restitution. Stinson pleaded guilty on July 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two high-ranking members of the Israelite Church of God in Jesus Christ (ICGJC) were arrested today for allegedly evading taxes on millions of dollars in ICGJC funds that they fraudulently diverted to their sham entertainment company and to one of the defendants for his personal use, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today sent Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a list of hundreds of follow-up questions that he could either not answer at the hearing or questions that Democratic Committee members developed as a result of his testimony before the Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s House vote on H.R. 3144, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ bill to legalize the ongoing destruction of salmon populations throughout the Pacific Northwest, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) warned Republicans against voting for a locally unpopular and economically destructive bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced 57 bills to the full Energy and Commerce Committee. Of the bills, 56 were focused on ways to help combat the opioid crisis. #SubHealth also considered the bipartisan, bicameral reauthorization of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act (AGDUFA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Emory Werito, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Nageezi, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 36 months in prison for assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. Werito will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following floor statement in support of H.R. 5447, the Music Modernization Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - As part of an ongoing series of law enforcement training programs offered by the United States Attorney’s Office, in collaboration with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and organizations, approximately 100 members of local and state Rhode Island law enforcement representing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - DEA announced the 15th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place April 28th from 10 am-2 pm local time. Sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can anonymously return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal. (DEA cannot accept liquids, needles or sharps.)
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - Charles Oliver, 36, of Thayer, Missouri was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health markup on “Opioid Legislation and H.R. 5554, Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug Amendments Act of 2018:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Robert M. Duncan, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, announces his support and encouragement for the DEA and law enforcement agencies, in their National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday, April 28th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The DEA and local agencies...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for aiding and abetting the distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Mississippi resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegal possession of a rifle and ammunition after being stopped for speeding in Dehli.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Trent Shores announced the DEA will hold the 15th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, April 28th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 11 collection sites throughout the Northern District of Oklahoma. The event is an effort to rid homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Chief District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Shawn Christopher Gorrell, 39, formerly of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now of Belgrade, Montana, to 64 months in prison on each of the 3 counts of wire fraud a jury found Gorrell committed and 60 months in prison on the 3 tax evasion counts. All prison sentences...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: Hot Springs, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Rasheen Murdock, age 37, of Modesto, California was found guilty on one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, one count of aiding and abetting in the distribution of methamphetamine, and one count of witness tampering following a three-day jury trial in Hot Springs. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the trial.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarding three separate grants for Brownfield sites in Wyoming. The three grants include...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today advanced 57 bills to the full Energy and Commerce Committee. Of the bills, 56 were focused on ways to help combat the opioid crisis. #SubHealth also considered the bipartisan, bicameral reauthorization of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act (AGDUFA).
