News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Morgantown woman was indicted this week by a federal grand jury on heroin trafficking charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On March 7, 2018, Chris Rayvon Starks, 31, of Shelbyville, Tennessee, was sentenced to serve 180 months in prison by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Judge. Upon his release from prison, Starks will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - Kenneth McQueen (58, Okeechobee) has pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. He faces a minimum of 5, up to 40 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Marco DeCamillo, age 41, of Reading, Pennsylvania today to 12 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for mail fraud stemming from the sales of misbranded body armor. Judge Blake also ordered DeCamillo to pay $124,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New York-based oxycodone trafficker was convicted yesterday following a three-day trial in Boston.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: The United States Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced today a of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Ronald L. Wheeler, III, a/k/a Trappy, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit access device fraud for working as a public relations specialist for the Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay.
By State Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: The State Department’s failure to use $120 million that Congress provided to counter and deter Russian propaganda is unacceptable. This is the latest example of the Trump Administration both ignoring the will of Congress and letting Russia off the hook for its attack on American...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: San Francisco, CA - To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Trails Act in 2018, the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail will offer special anniversary Passport To Your National Parks® cancellation stamp at partner sites throughout Arizona and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Gardnerville, Nevada, man was arrested and made his initial appearance in federal court today for causing an explosion at his apartment while trying to illegally make butane hash oil, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: JEROME RUZICKA and JEFFREY TAYLOR were convicted by a federal jury of charges related to stealing more than $15 million from the Eden Prairie-based Starkey Laboratories, Inc. (Starkey) and its principal owner William F. Austin, as well as one of Starkey’s suppliers, Sonion. RUZICKA is the former President...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Danvers-based Abiomed, Inc. has agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by purchasing lavish meals for physicians in order to induce them to use Abiomed’s Impella line of heart pumps.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Tyler Hall, of Ranson, West Virginia has admitted to a firearm charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio, 47-year-old Pedro Silva Segura faces up to life in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to his role in an undocumented alien smuggling operation that resulted in ten deaths last year, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Adrian Wiggins, 53, a former Nurse Assistant at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, with a civil rights offense. The indictment alleges that on January 8, 2017, Wiggins repeatedly struck an individual identified by the initials W.B., a resident of the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and caused bodily injury as a result.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a scam in which he and co-conspirators defrauded victims by pretending to be employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: DENVER - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado today sold four parcels totaling 1,400 acres for $10,063 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas A. Gillespie, 44, of East Brady, PA, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: 19 Members and Associates of Tennessee Mongols Motorcycle Gang Charged With Racketeering Conspiracy Including Murder and Kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2018
News Release: (TAMPA, Fla. ) - Michael Bernard (36, Bradenton) was sentenced to 10 years and five months in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute controlled substances. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 13, 2017.
