News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Howard Lee Walker, 30, of Pearl, Mississippi, pled guilty today, before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces today that Dr. Ajaz Afzal has agreed to pay the United States $75,000 to resolve allegations that he violated the Controlled Substances Act by improperly issuing prescriptions for schedule II drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man pleaded guilty today to running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 20 victims of more than $1.4 million.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho-- The Bureau of Land Management Idaho Falls District will be hiring wildland firefighters for the 2019 fire season. Job applications are being accepted with most applications due Jan. 2, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - To honor the passing of our country’s 41st president, George H.W. Bush, Wednesday December 5 has been designated a National Day of Mourning. Most of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will be open to visitors, but the park will not collect fees. The Kahuku Unit will be closed.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers removed a fugitive wanted by Canadian authorities for escape from a federal correctional institution in Quebec Province.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NOEL PEREZ, 22, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - An EM-sponsored scientist who helped develop robots to analyze residual uranium material in piping at two EM sites has been selected for the 2019 Waste Management Symposia (WMS) Young Professional Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Honduran man late yesterday of leading a drug trafficking organization that smuggled at least thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States over the last decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Ashonta Eswaien Hammond, 41, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 120 months in prison on drug and gun charges. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees also ordered Hammond to serve four years under court supervision, upon completion...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on news reports that the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was hacked this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gerald Castillo, Jr., 30, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Ruidoso, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to three years probation and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine for assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Adam Daniel Young (27, Bradenton) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for using the internet to download images and videos depicting child sexual abuse. Young was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today’s arrest of Nathan Koen, 42, of Conway, on federal bribery and drug conspiracy charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Henry T. Dean, III, 58, of Beaver Dams, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to serve 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The judge also ordered the defendant to pay restitution totaling $120,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Attempted to Intimidate a Witness During the Trial; Faces a Mandatory Minimum Sentence of 57 Years in Prison for Brandishing a Firearm in Each Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Leander Shepard, age 60, of Fayetteville, Arkansas was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - At the request of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, the Bureau of Land Management Upper Snake Field Office has temporarily closed the Stinking Springs area near the South Fork of the Snake River to all motorized vehicles and human entry in order to support wildlife survival rates. The annual closure began Dec. 1, 2018, and will remain in effect through sunrise May 1, 2019, depending on weather conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - LivaNova USA, Inc. (“LivaNova"), formerly known as Cyberonics, Inc., has agreed to pay the United States and the State of Georgia $1.87 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act and the Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act by knowingly paying kickbacks to Georgia physicians with the intent to cause referrals for implantation of LivaNova’s medical devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Jonathan Blunt, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to 250 months incarceration for distributing heroin, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
