News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have proposed a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent with President Trump’s “Safe Prescribing Plan" that seeks to “cut nationwide opioid prescription fills...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Man Wearing Denver Broncos Baseball Cap Robs Rio Rancho Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - One former resident of Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court on one count of violating the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced that James Theodore Pyle, 27, of Allegan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 245 months’ imprisonment for sexual exploitation of a minor. The Court also ordered that he spend ten years on supervised release and pay a fine of $2,500.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management has selected Peter McFadden as the new District Manager for the Ely District. He began his duties on June 11. McFadden had been serving as acting District Manager since January.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Cincinnati -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a Request for Information (RFI)/Sources Sought for Nuclear Containment Ventilation Systems and Components Evaluation and Qualification Testing Program for the Department of Energy (DOE).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Lywayne Marquis Scott, 35, of St. Louis, pled guilty to two counts - one count of felon in possession of a firearm and one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin. He appeared in federal court on Wednesday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Henry Autrey.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WOOSTER, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited ArtiFlex Manufacturing for exposing workers at its Wooster location to amputation hazards after an employee suffered a partial finger amputation. The company faces $213,411 in proposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Former Virgin Islands Senator Convicted of Wire Fraud and Theft of Federal Program Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Three people were indicted in federal court for drug trafficking in Lorain County, the latest charges in a coordinated, cooperative law enforcement effort targeting opioid distribution there.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a Jackson County man to 15 years in prison for illegal gun possession after determining the man was an armed career criminal based on prior convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Totowa, New Jersey, man today admitted knowingly possessing a firearm as a previously convicted felon and trying to bring a loaded gun onto a plane, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of PAUL DEAN, to his role in a scheme to obtain approval of gun licenses by the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") License Division in exchange for cash payments and non-monetary bribes. DEAN, once second-in-command of the License Division, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery before U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration have proposed a reduction for controlled substances that may be manufactured in the U.S. next year. Consistent with President Trump’s “Safe Prescribing Plan" that seeks to “cut nationwide opioid prescription fills by one-third...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Kasey Lynn Keffer, 40, of Sylva, N.C., was sentenced today to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release on robbery charges, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Keffer’s co-defendants, Mitchum Scott Turpin and Tillmon Gene Fortner, were previously sentenced to 120 and 78 months in prison, respectively, for their involvement in the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of PAUL DEAN, to his role in a scheme to obtain approval of gun licenses by the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") License Division in exchange for cash payments and non-monetary bribes. DEAN, once second-in-command of the License Division, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery before U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SALVATORE DELLIGATTI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison for conspiring to participate in the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa Nostra through a pattern of racketeering...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Jackson, TN - Tony Boyd, of Paris, Tennessee was indicted on July 16, 2018, by a federal grand jury for distributing drugs, while being a convicted felon. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The owner of two Rhode Island durable medical equipment companies has been charged in federal court in Providence with allegedly executing a “check-kiting" scheme which defrauded three banks, and with tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2018
News Release: Couple left with Permanent Disabilities. A 51-year-old Montesano, Washington, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for vehicular assault, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. KELLY L. LANDRY, was driving his employer’s...
