News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ZETRICK JONES, age 34, of Tickfaw, Louisiana, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on one count of conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(C), and 846; one count of possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ernesto Bautista Juarez, age 25, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to time served (28 days in jail), for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Sentenced to Prison and Home Confinement for Scheme Involving Replacement Parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of The Guardians Project, a Federal Law Enforcement Initiative to Combat Corruption, Fraud, and Abuse in South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Moises Orozco Castaneda, age 57, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to time served (41 days in jail), for misdemeanor destruction of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of ERIC JAMES REINBOLD, 41, to five years in federal prison for illegally possessing unregistered pipe bombs. REINBOLD was convicted on July 20, 2018, following a three-day trial before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States State Office (BLM-ESSO) held a quarterly oil and gas lease sale Dec. 13, 2018, that resulted in competitive bids on 17 parcels of 24 available parcels for more than 1,313 acres located in Ohio, Michigan, and Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Dec. 14, 2018 - A 45-count federal indictment was unsealed yesterday, charging Dr. Samson Orusa, 56, of Clarksville, Tennessee with maintaining a drug-involved premises; 22 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance outside the bounds of professional medical practice; 13 counts of healthcare fraud; and nine counts of money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, 35, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a former resident of Weatherford, Oklahoma, has pleaded guilty to visa fraud and making a false statement to the FBI by, among other things, concealing his application to and attendance at an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Recovered Crack, Cocaine, PCP, Fentanyl, and Firearms During Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man who worked as a private tutor was sentenced in federal court today for sexually assaulting a former 10-year-old student.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: Washington - The Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) reached a consent decision with JBS USA Food Company, also known as Swift Beef Company (JBS Swift), Greeley, Colo., for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. The consent decision was signed by Acting Chief Administrative Law Judge, Channing D. Strother, on Nov. 21, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Raymel Weeden, 25, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of discharge of a firearm causing death, was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The sentence will be served consecutive to a 10 year state sentence the defendant is currently serving for Robbery in the First Degree.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - A gang member of the Aryan Circle (AC) was sentenced today for being an accessory-after-the-fact to racketeering murder, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana and Assistant Attorney General Bryan A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Jamal Brown was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 90 months’ imprisonment for distributing and possessing with intent to distribute more than 40 grams of fentanyl between July 2017 and February 2018. Brown pleaded guilty to the charge in May 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kevin Mark Simms, of Moundsville, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: On Dec. 15, 2018, the Office of Legacy Management celebrates 15 years. On this date in 2003, the office was formally established as a new element within the Department of Energy when personnel from four different organizations were merged into a cohesive organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: United States Sues Freight Companies for Systematic Overcharging of Shipments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Dec. 14, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell this week sentenced Dana Thomas, age 53, of Paducah, Kentucky, to 27 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered her to pay restitution of $147,770, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
