News from June 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On June 12, 2018, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned a 38-count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Midland, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: Jimolo Coates Continued to Sell Heroin from Jail.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: The annual John Colter Day will be held Monday, June 25, at the Colter Bay Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park. Colter explored the vast Yellowstone country during the winter of 1807-1808, and was likely the first Euro-American to travel the region. This marks the eleventh year that Grand Teton has offered special presentations to highlight the life of John Colter and the mountain men of the 1800s.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of the House’s vote on H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act, 161 patient advocacy groups wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging the House’s swift, bipartisan support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey woman today admitted her role in a month-long crime spree that included attempting to rob a Citizens Bank, in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, at gunpoint, conspiring to rob a Keystone Bank in Scotrun, Pennsylvania, and robbing a Spencer Savings Bank in Garfield, New Jersey, at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal indictment was unsealed today charging 11 members and associates of MS-13 in connection with the 2016 murders of two juveniles in Fairfax County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alan William Weber, 37, of Clovis, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to the 49 days of time he has already served in custody to be followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws by possessing an unregistered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - YVONNE WILSON, age 37, of Kenner, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to embezzlement of mail matter by a postal service employee, announced U. S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant and Accomplice Fired Multiple Shots at Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Simi Valley man has pleaded guilty to impersonating a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and, in that false persona, ordering a teenage boy out of a car before seizing and searching the minor’s cellphones without permission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court for his role in armed robberies of credit unions in Shaker Heights and Willoughby on the same day last year.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of the House’s vote on H.R. 6, the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act, 161 patient advocacy groups wrote to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) urging the House’s swift, bipartisan support.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced three separate indictments charging individuals with illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: (ORLANDO, Fla.) - A federal jury today found John M. Gayden, Jr. (64, West Melbourne) guilty of seven counts of distributing oxycodone outside the course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical reason. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 7, 2018. Gayden was indicted on Sept. 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: Defendant Stabbed Victim Multiple Times Outside 7-Eleven Convenience Store.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: Defendants allegedly possessed three kilos of fentanyl at time of arrest; Additional kilo found during search.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017, by unanimous consent. H.R. 931 first passed the House in September 2017, by voice vote. The Senate passed the bill, with an amendment, in May by unanimous consent. H.R. 931 now heads to the President’s desk for signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced LEWIS ALEXANDER HINES, 26, of Wilmington to 120 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Today, U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Mary Sue Weaver, 65, currently of Scottsdale, Arizona and formerly of Lincoln, California, to four years and two months in prison and ordered to pay $15,387,945 in restitution for her participation in a $22 million fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
