News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: (OKLAHOMA CITY) - A federal grand jury has returned two indictments involving the illegal distribution of and fraudulent billing for prescription opioids by health care professionals, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: RANGERS RESCUE 17 PEOPLE AFTER BOAT ACCIDENTS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Quincy man, who had been a fugitive for more than 20 years prior to his arrest in April 2017, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a $1.7 million real estate investment fraud scheme in Quincy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: HELENA - The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit yesterday issued an order affirming a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Sam E. Haddon that the United States Forest Service possesses an easement by prescription on behalf of itself and the public for use of Forest Service Trail No.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Kyle Leavy, 32, of Farmington, pleaded guilty in federal court to fentanyl trafficking charges, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Quadiri Ayodele, age 38, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on June 19, 2018, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier. Ayodele was convicted of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, 500 grams or more of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: (BOISE, Idaho) - 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...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 130,632 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Kenneth Joseph Jacobsen, 44, formerly of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 30 years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for the production, distribution and receipt of child pornography. In addition to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: DTO Imported Large Quantities of Heroin, Methamphetamine and Cocaine from Mexico and Distributed the Drugs in New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Byron Curry, 42 years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann after pleading guilty to bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Juan Garcia, 34, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty on Thursday in federal court to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Hall, 42, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 87 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Ramone McBride, age 20, was found guilty of Assault on a Federal Officer following a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON--The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $3.3 million civil penalty against The Hinman Co. of Portage, Michigan, for conducting hundreds of commercial aircraft operations in violation of the Federal Aviation Regulations, including failing to hold the required operator certificate for the flights being performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: Downloadable file: PORTLAND, Ore. - On June 28, 2018, Daniel Ramirez, 43, of Hillsboro, Oregon, was sentenced to 188 months in prison for engaging in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and engaging in cockfighting. Ramirez was also ordered to pay a money judgment of $100,000 and will be on supervised...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the draft Environmental Assessment and draft Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed approval of the annual return of up to 20,000 acre-feet of previously transferred Central Valley Project water from Reclamation-acknowledged water banks over a nine year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - More than 50 individuals, including a reputed gang member, are facing criminal charges as part of a joint federal and state investigation into heroin and fentanyl sales in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, FL-Special Agent in Charge Eric W. Sporre, of the Tampa Field Office, announced a reward of up to $50,000 being offered in exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a fugitive wanted for murder in Hillsborough County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Jason Arnold was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment and five years supervised release for his bank fraud and money laundering convictions related to a scheme to defraud a financial institution and the company he worked for as a controller out of more than $7.6 million. He was also ordered to pay restitution in excess of $6.4 million.
