News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Defendants Threatened a Brooklyn Doctor and Obtained Fraudulent Prescriptions for More Than 230,000 Oxycodone Pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: A law enforcement operation making arrests and serving search warrants over the last two days targeted a multi-state drug trafficking network led by drug cartel members in Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. The drug trafficking organization distributing heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to 31 months imprisonment, three years supervised release on each count to run concurrently, and restitution in the amount of $87,307.76 on her conviction of Embezzlement in Connection with Health Care and Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An Armstrong County resident pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to charges of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kassim Tajideen, the operator of a network of businesses in Lebanon and Africa whom the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated as an important financial supporter to the Hezbollah terror organization, pleaded guilty today to charges associated with evading U.S. sanctions imposed on him.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In keeping with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s commitment to work closely with states to enhance conservation, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and proposed plan amendments addressing Greater Sage-Grouse conservation on public land in Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Two Guns and Cocaine Base Recovered in Searches of Defendant and Car He Was Driving.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: A woman who threw away a federal garnishment against her wages sent to her employer was sentenced December 4, 2018, to 90 days’ imprisonment.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of the Interior today released new land management plans for the greater-sage grouse that pave the way for more oil and gas development on sensitive public lands habitats. The plans significantly reduce protections for essential sage-grouse habitat across the western United States and eliminate requirements for industry to compensate for habitat loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: December 5, 2018, Armed Bank Robbery in Denver.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: A convicted rapist from Cleveland was indicted in federal court for having a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID TAYLOR, a state-licensed doctor, was convicted by a jury for writing medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone over a five-year period. The verdict followed a one-week jury trial before United States District Court Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Ponca, AR - The National Park Service (NPS) closed the Lost Valley Road and day-use area on Monday, Dec. 10, for an improvement project that will relocate a portion of Lost Valley Road, parking area, and trailhead out of the immediate flood zone of Clark Creek. The purpose of this project is to provide safe vehicular access to the Lost Valley Trailhead while minimizing adverse impacts to Clark Creek, the Buffalo River, and the surrounding environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Former Idaho Department of Correction (IDOC) correctional officer Richard McCollough, 37, of Boise, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. McCollough pleaded guilty in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy W. Dale pursuant to a written plea agreement filed with the Court.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: STANFORD, CA - On December 3-4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy, Stanford Energy’s Precourt Institute for Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI), and Texas A&M Energy Institute, hosted the Seventh Annual U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a two-day trial, a federal jury found William Lamar Blessett, 39, of North Highlands, guilty Wednesday of one count of possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - IRVIN MAYFIELD, age 40, and RONALD MARKHAM, age 39, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged by a federal grand jury in a 24-count second superseding indictment for conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and false statements announced the United States Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Moldova has been sentenced in federal court to time served on his conviction of conspiracy and damaging a computer, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Faces at Least 15 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: DAYTON - A federal judge has convicted a Jordanian national residing in Dayton of attempting and conspiring to join ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization.
