News published on Federal Newswire in June 2018

News from June 2018


News Release: Washington, D.C. (June 29, 2018)-Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, Jerrold Nadler, Bennie G. Thompson, Bobby Scott, and Frank Pallone, Jr., the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, Homeland Security, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce, ...


News Release: On June 29, 2018, Michael B. Stephens, Jr., 43, of Red Bud, Illinois, was sentenced to 25.


Great Falls Man Sentenced for Possession of Child Pornography

News Release: MISSOULA - Shane Courtney, 50, of Great Falls, Montana, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for possession of child pornography. Courtney pleaded guilty Jan. 24, 2018 to one count of possession of child pornography. Courtney admitted that from June 2005 through Feb. 28, 2017, he possessed...


News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Chief United States District Court Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Anthony Letom McCann on June 29, 2018 to serve a term of imprisonment of 18 months followed by 3 years of supervised release for illegally possessing...


Fifteen People from Hawaii Charged and 13 Firearms Seized as Part of Project Safe Neighborhoods

News Release: HONOLULU - In the past three months, 15 people from Hawaii were charged with drug or violent crimes in the U.S. District Court in Honolulu, and 13 firearms, 543 rounds of ammunition, approximately 13 pounds of methamphetamine, and over $35,000 were seized, as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (“PSN").


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Trial has been scheduled on Aug. 3, 2018, for three Pana, Ill., defendants and a Missouri man charged with trafficking methamphetamine. Claudette Borders, 46; Jesse Stoldorf, 43, Randy Hammond, 39, all of rural Pana; and Raymond Toth, 60, of Cuba, Mo., were arraigned in federal court in Springfield on June 28.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Anthony Sistrunk, a/k/a "Kanye," age 30, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, to 30 years’ imprisonment for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.


News Release: CODY, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to serve local communities through sustainable management of working public lands, the Bureau of Land Management has analyzed a proposed bentonite mining expansion project in Big Horn County. The BLM Cody Field Office will accept public comments on the environmental assessment through Aug. 3, 2018.


News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Yvette Kane sentenced Anthony Sistrunk, a/k/a “Kanye," age 30, a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York, to 30 years’ imprisonment for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.


News Release: GREAT FALLS -Jaycob Tyler Kutzera, 23, from Redlands, California, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris sentenced Kutzera to 180 months’ imprisonment. Upon his release, he will be on supervised release for 5 years. Kutzera was also ordered to pay restitution to the victim.


News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shawnette Isaac, age 41, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to serve 30 months’ imprisonment today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for her role in a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy that operated in Monroe County during 2012 through 2015.


ABANDONED VEHICLE, DOG LEAD TO SEARCH

News Release: ABANDONED VEHICLE, DOG LEAD TO SEARCH.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - George Hristovski, 59, of Elverta, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 10 years in prison for attempted enticement of a minor, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.


News Release: After Victim Resisted, He Threatened to Beat Her If She Told What Happened.


News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Steven Butler, 25, of Rangeley, Maine, was sentenced today by U.S. District by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to two years in prison and three years of supervised release for distribution of fentanyl.



News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action involving 601 charged defendants across 58 federal districts, including 165 doctors, nurses and other licensed...


Three Facing Federal Firearms Charges In Music City Pawn Robbery

News Release: Three Nashville men are facing federal firearms charges relating to the armed robbery of Music City Pawn on Tuesday, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.


Former health care chief executive sentenced to 9.5 years in federal prison

News Release: James Burkhart’s conspiracy reaped nearly $19.4 million in fraud and kickbacks, funding.


News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Antonio Perez, age 46, of Hazleton, was sentenced to 33 months’ imprisonment and three years on supervised release on June 28, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for distributing heroin.