News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers sentenced Waylon J. Horton, a former employee of a container manufacturing plant located in Hart County, Kentucky, to 60 months imprisonment followed by 2 years of supervised release, for tampering with consumer products, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Randall L. Walker, a/k/a "Pork Chop," and "Chop," of Marion, Illinois, has been charged by indictment with unlawful distribution of methamphetamine and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Steven D. Weinhoeft, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - 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 Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jeffrey Rivera, age 36, of Utica, New York, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for his participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy involving in excess of 5 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of false representation of a Social Security number.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - 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 Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Bryant C. Hardnett, age 45, of Watervliet and Cohoes, New York, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for stealing the personal identifying information of children and using it to falsely claim the children as his own dependents on his tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today spoke at the Bipartisan Policy Center to honor the leadership of retiring Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on the passage of the CHRONIC Care Act, and to offer ideas on additional improvements that could...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Michael Christopher Estes, 47, formerly of Tazewell, Tennessee, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to 46 months in prison and two years of supervised release for unlawful possession of explosive material, in connection with the October 2017 incident at the Asheville Regional Airport, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that on December 4, 2018, Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson sentenced Xiong Lo, 53, Wausau, Wisconsin, to 30 months in federal prison and a $50,000 fine, and Ying Lo, 40, also of Wausau, to 4 months in federal prison and a $10,000 fine, for money laundering and distribution of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Schorr, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to robbing two branches of US Bank in New Mexico in Sept. and Oct. 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Ou Vern Saeteurn, 23, of Sacramento, charging him with possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and possessing two firearms in furtherance of his drug crimes, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Kansas City, Missouri - Today, at the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National Conference, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker presented the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi and its law enforcement partners with the award for Outstanding Overall Partnership/Task...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Brandon Frere was charged with wire fraud on December 5, 2018, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation, Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On December 4, 2018, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a one-count indictment against D’Marko Vernell King, 30, of Detroit, Michigan. This case has not yet been set for trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Birmingham Businessman Sentenced To Prison For Obstruction And Submitting Fictitious Instruments To The IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: FBI and the Atoka Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Richard McCollough Pleads Guilty to Twice Possessing a Firearm in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - A husband and wife, who enriched themselves by defrauding the Virginia Medicaid program, were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court on federal health care fraud and related charges, United States Thomas T. Cullen and Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - United States Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger, along with a team of law enforcement officials from the Eastern District of Virginia, joined law enforcement leaders from around the country this week at the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Conference held in Kansas City, Missouri.
