News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - The final defendant in a maritime smuggling venture involving nearly 1300 kilograms of cocaine has pleaded guilty, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Honduran man who illegally entered the United States pleaded guilty yesterday to transportation of a person for criminal sexual purposes.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 21, 2018 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded the accomplishments made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) over the past year. USDA has continued enacting President Trump’s goals of regulatory reform, streamlining government, and refocusing USDA to be customer oriented.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A nurse at the Department of Correction’s Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center (MASAC) in Plymouth, was arrested yesterday and charged with distribution of Suboxone strips to inmates in that facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Paul, Minnesota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS -U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that GABRIEL CARRETO-SANCHEZ, age 41, of New Orleans, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2018 after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of cocaine and possession with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Tuscarora Field Office is seeking public review and comment until Jan. 20, 2019 on an Environmental Assessment (EA) for Newmont Mining Corporation’s (Newmont) Emigrant Mine Plan of Operations. The Emigrant Mine is located 20 miles southwest of Elko Nevada and work is projected to begin work in 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Defrauded Elderly Victims Over $3 Million Annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, TN-FBI and TBI Special Agents and Wartburg Police Detectives continue searching for a missing East Tennessee teenager. Fourteen-year-old Bridgett Gordon left her home in Morgan County in on December 3. Investigators have tracked leads in several states. Agents recovered surveillance video putting the missing girl with an unknown man and woman at a Taco Bell in Dyersburg, Tennessee on or about December 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - Three Chicago-area men have pleaded guilty to the robberies of Rockford-area cell phone stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Gabriel Trinidad Lopez, age 38, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty on July 12, 2018, to being a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian sentenced Lopez to a 30-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 3-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced today that William A. Smith, age 31, of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced for Domestic Assault by a Habitual Offender. United States District Court Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., sentenced Smith to a 30-month term of imprisonment. After his release from prison, Smith with begin a 3-year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation and Child Abuse.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
Release: PITTSBURGH - A Mississippi man was cited by airport police after he was caught by Transportation Security Administration officers at Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) with a loaded gun in his carry-on bag on Wednesday, Dec. 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Daniel J. Fillerup, age 33, of Albany, pled guilty yesterday to selling fentanyl that caused the death of its user.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Mexican citizen pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Philip G. Reinhard to a total of 114 months in federal prison for the robbery of the U.S. Cellular store, 6430 E. State St., in Rockford, on June 1, 2016, and for using a firearm during a violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David D. Klepadlo, age 63, of Clarks Summit, and the company he owns, David D. Klepadlo & Associates, Inc., pleaded guilty on Dec. 19, 2018, before United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to making false statements in violation of the Clean Water Act and tampering with a government witness.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after Secretary DeVos and Acting Attorney General Whitaker rescinded guidance aimed at ending disciplinary practices that unfairly...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gheorghe Cirstea, age 31, and a citizen of Romania, was arraigned today on charges that he worked with others to steal account information and personal identification numbers (PINs) from people using ATMs in the Capital Region in 2015.
