News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the guilty plea of SCOTT PHILLIP FLYNN, 55, to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of filing a false tax return. FLYNN, who was initially charged on Dec. 21, 2016, pleaded guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Justin Stabler, 31, of Harrison County, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to serve 90 months in federal prison as a result of his pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Allegiance Health Management, Inc., (Allegiance), a post-acute healthcare management company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and four hospitals owned and operated by Allegiance (collectively, the Allegiance Defendants), have agreed to pay more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Enite Alindor (55), also known as Odette Dureland, to five months in federal prison for making false statements in a matter relating to naturalization and citizenship and for procuring naturalization as a United...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that his office secured a life sentence today in a case involving a Delaware County man convicted of murder through the use of a firearm and conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Anthony Vetri, 30, of Essington, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement in reaction to the news that a major source of funding for Medicare will be depleted three years earlier than previously expected...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Needles Field Office is seeking public comment on an Environmental Assessment for a proposed communications site at Nipton, in San Bernardino County. Today’s posting of the EA commences a 30-day public comment period that will close July 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana Brandon Fremin announced that the U.S. Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID E. BYERS, 35, of Solana Beach, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 88 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for engaging in an east coast robbery spree and subsequent cross-country pursuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the guilty plea of JESSE WELLS HAUG, 33, to one count of wire fraud. HAUG, who was charged in a superseding indictment on June 22, 2017, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A citizen of Mexico was indicted today by a federal grand jury on a fraud charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to federal prison on drug and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Fashawn “Chops" Cannon, 28, previously entered guilty pleas to distributing Oxycodone and using a firearm during and in relation to that crime. Cannon ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Donavan Hardison, 28, of Charleston, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., to 8 months in prison for having escaped from the Dismas Charities’ halfway house in St. Albans, West Virginia. Stuart credited the cooperative effort of the United States Marshal Service, the West Virginia State Police, the Charleston Police Department, and the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office for Hardison’s capture.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Avenues gang member who was captured last year after more than a decade on the run was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on federal hate crime and firearms charges that were filed against him in 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Michigan man who was caught with drugs in Huntington in 2017 was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. William Henry Stephens, Jr., 45, of Inkster, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the work of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Leroy Tchod Cameron Ravenell, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colo., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months in prison for his cocaine trafficking conviction. Ravenell will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Every year this time, summer temperatures rise and the number of campers decrease in the park. In order to reduce maintenance costs and allow vegetation a bit of a breather, Joshua Tree closes a number of camping areas. Here is a list of campgrounds that will close from June 8 until around Labor Day.
