News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced action against a dangerous designer synthetic cathinone linked to 151 overdose deaths in the United States between 2015 and 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Defendant lied on a form to obtain a passport he was prohibited from obtaining.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal court in New Jersey today entered an order of permanent injunction prohibiting two companies in Bronx, New York, and Trenton, New Jersey, and their executives from distributing unapproved and misbranded drugs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today that Andrew Lynch, 37, of Rochester, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Samuel Lombardo, age 53, of Pittston, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 72 months’ imprisonment on Aug. 29, 2018, by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: As a result of late summer rains and slightly cooler temperatures, on September 5, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, National Park Service, State of Utah will lift fire restriction orders in the following areas.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office has approved the vegetation and forest health plan for the giant sequoia groves on Case Mountain, southeast of Three Rivers in Tulare County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Murder, Kidnapping, and Assault Indictments Against MS-13 Members also Unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Marien Torres Acevedo, age 35, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Francisco Rodriguez Polanco, age 34, of the Bronx, New York, were indicted by a federal grand jury with conspiring to defraud the...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Aug. 15, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Fair Trade Practices Program (FTPP) issued a complaint against Carolina Stockyard Company Inc. (Carolina), Staley, N.C., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act (the Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced ANTONIO PIERRE SHUFFORD, 38 from Wilmington, North Carolina, to 144 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Kristie Ann Mollohan, 42, formerly of Kalamazoo, Michigan, pled guilty before the Hon. Phillip J. Green, U.S. Magistrate Judge, to two counts of tampering with a consumer product. This federal offense prohibits tampering with a drug or other consumer product with reckless disregard...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that an illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced Thursday to seven months in prison for re-entering the United States after having been previously removed on three occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: For Possession with intent to Distribute Controlled Substances and for Possessing a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for assault of a federal officer (two counts) and domestic assault by an habitual offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on Aug. 30, 2018, by Magistrate Mark A. Moreno.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Treasury issued proposed rules preventing states’ efforts to use charitable contributions as an end-run around the cap the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act placed on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Joshua Lee Hill (32, Jacksonville) with possessing a short-barreled rifle that was not registered to him and with possessing a firearm while he was subject to a state order of protection against repeat violence. If convicted on all counts, Hill faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: Today’s initial attack operations on the Forest Canyon Fire resulted in approximately 80 percent containment. Due to the terrain, fuel load and inaccessibility of the fire, there is still potential for growth. The crews working on suppression efforts were met with extreme hazards including steep terrain...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 31, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed a Jamaican national Thursday who is wanted in his home country on murder charges. Oshane Wayne Thompson, 24, was removed from the United States via an ICE Air Operations Charter flight and transferred into the custody of Jamaican law enforcement authorities.
