News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TIMOTHY JACKSON, age 28, a native of New Orleans, pled guilty on January 10th to violations of the Federal Drug Control Act, Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(C) for possessing with the intent to distribute a quantity of heroin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALEXANDER CASTRO, age 43, of Cape Coral, Florida, was sentenced on Jan. 11, 2018 after previously pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Approximately $6.3 Million Allegedly Embezzled from 2010 to 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Shane Harrigan (619) 546-6981 and Caroline Han (619) 546-6968.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- On Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, Kelvin Carnell Golden, 32, of Evergreen, Alabama, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison for armed robbery, announced Louis V. Franklin, Sr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. There is no parole in the federal system. In addition to 20 years in prison, Golden will be subject to 5 years of supervised release when his sentence is complete.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: From January 24 to 25, the secondary elevators at Carlsbad Caverns National Park will be out of service for required, routine maintenance. The work involves shortening the cables installed on both secondary elevator cars in February 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge this week sentenced a Sheffield man to more than 11 years in prison for possessing child pornography, including images of infants and toddlers being raped, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Next Thursday, the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will hold a hearing to examine new approaches to speed the delivery of critical water infrastructure projects. The testimony heard at the hearing will help inform the Committee’s work as it considers a new Water Resources...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Nahant couple was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with the “short sale" of a house in Nahant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to leading and supplying a heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy that resulted in more than a dozen overdoses and at least two deaths.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that Jose Gerardo Mejia-Rangel (41, Dade City) has pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft. He previously pleaded guilty in a separate case to illegally reentering the United States. Mejia-Rangel faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for illegal reentry and a mandatory, consecutive two-year prison sentence for aggravated identity theft. His sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 23, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who handled the case, stated that Lockwood was prescribed large quantities of oxycodone by his heath care provider for a severe injury that he had sustained. Beginning in February 2015 and continuing until his arrest in February 2017, Lockwood conspired to sell his oxycodone pills to Daniel Volonino, Jr. and Michael Ingham, who, in turn, sold pills to others in the Rochester area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: Pharmacy Owner, Medical Doctor and Patient Recruiter Convicted in $4.3 Million Pain and Scar Cream Kickback Scheme Against Military Insurance Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sergio Roman Barrientos, 64, of Poway, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Michael Shawn Garrett, 45, of Panama City Beach, Florida, a colonel in the Florida Air National Guard, was sentenced to 10 years in prison yesterday after being convicted on Oct. 17, 2017, of attempted enticement of a minor for sex. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Abolghasseni “Abe" Alizadeh, 59, of Granite Bay, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, bank fraud and making false statements to a federally insured financial institution, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has named Michael Herder as the new district manager for the Arizona Strip District, which comprises 2.8 million acres north of the Grand Canyon in Northwestern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sergio Roman Barrientos, 64, of Poway, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: A woman who made false statements in connection with a highway project was sentenced Jan. 12, 2018, to a $34,432.02 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced that the Oversight Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “The Opioid Crisis: The Current Landscape and CMS Actions to Prevent Opioid Misuse" on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018 at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House...
