News from July 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Adam Lemar Miles, a/k/a “NoStress," 46, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ursula M. Ungaro to a total of 108 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the United Nations Security Council adopted new sanctions and an arms embargo on South Sudan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to shooting a U.S. diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Six individuals are facing federal criminal charges as part of an investigation into heroin and crack cocaine sales in the Rockford area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: The wife of former UAW Vice President General Holiefield was sentenced to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release and a fine of $25,000 today based on her conviction for felony tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston woman pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to bank fraud in connection with the embezzlement of over $229,000 from a small business that employed her.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Dennis D. Jackson, 32, of Harrisburg, Illinois, was found guilty of methamphetamine related offenses on Thursday following a four day jury trial at the federal courthouse in Benton, announced Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Jackson was convicted of three counts of distributing methamphetamine and one count of possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine. The offenses were committed in March 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: PRICE, Utah -The Bureau of Land Management Price Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment for the IACX Energy Project, which proposes to drill one vertical exploratory well under its Federal lease located approximately 19 miles northwest of Green River, Utah. The 14-day public comment period runs from July 13 to July 27.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the Inspector General Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new report concluding that former Secretary Tom Price wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars traveling around the country on private chartered flights. The report found...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Cascio, 52, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted following a jury trial of bank robbery, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Concord - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray and Brian D. Boyle, the Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New England Field Division, announced that additional charges have been brought against members of a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Wichita man on charges of distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DILLON DAVIS, age 25, of Destrehan, was charged in a one-count Indictment with bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Dustin Wilson, 41, of Clear Lake, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 10 years and 10 months in prison for distribution of cocaine and money laundering, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Barry Shedd has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute at least 50 grams of methamphetamine less than two months after his release from state custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that United States District Judge Carl J. Barbier sentenced ASHLI MARTIN, age 34, and ANGELMICA AUGUSTINE, age 28, both of New Orleans, to terms of three years’ probation and time served, respectively, after they pled guilty to drug charges. MARTIN pled guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Eastern District of California to be Part of the Pilot Project to Combat Overdose Deaths Due to Fentanyl and Other Synthetic Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: Defendant was in possession of a stolen firearm, and drug paraphernalia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ROMALIS WILLIAMS, age 25, of Orleans Parish, was charged in a one-count Indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement in response to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services detailing former Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price’s repeated misuse of public funds to charter private aircraft trips.
