News from March 2018
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Dear Chairman Womack and Ranking Member Yarmuth...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Atlanta - Dr. Joseph L. Burton, a former county medical examiner and forensic pathologist, has been indicted along with seven other individuals on charges of illegal distribution of opioid painkillers and other drugs as part of Operation (Strategically Combatting Opioids through Prosecution and Enforcement). Multiple individuals have also been arrested on charges related to the unlawful distribution of opioids prescribed by Burton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a former employee of the Desoto Parish District Attorney’s Office pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing money intended to be paid to the District Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Brian Holland (23, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged by criminal complaint with aggravated sexual abuse by force. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison and a potential lifetime of supervision. Holland made his initial appearance in federal court today and was temporarily detained pending a detention hearing on Tuesday, March 6, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted two teenagers on carjacking and weapons offenses for allegedly taking a sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint in Chicago’s Goose Island neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - - Eleven individuals from Lakeland, Florida were charged yesterday with conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin, 400 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of a fentanyl analogue, the distribution of which resulted in four deaths and serious bodily injury to a victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has indicted two teenagers on carjacking and weapons offenses for allegedly taking a sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint in Chicago’s Goose Island neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former staffer for a Member of the United States Congress was found guilty today of bribery and attempted extortion after demanding and accepting $5,000 to prevent the closure of a marijuana shop in the City of Compton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Defendants Proposed that Undercover Law Enforcement Agent Purchase a Pablo Picasso Painting to Launder Fraudulent Profits From Stock Manipulation Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - A 50-year old Texas man was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for his scheme to defraud individuals seeking immigration benefits, the result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD), and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL) announced today a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on legislation reauthorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and spurring the deployment of next-generation wireless services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Earlier this week, Richard Joseph Herrera, 35, of Camp Verde, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Herrera had previously pleaded guilty to assault resulting in substantial bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Michael Chan, 34, of Bayside, New York, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to cyberstalking.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD), and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL) announced today a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on legislation reauthorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and spurring the deployment of next-generation wireless services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction in White Plains federal court of former Orange County attorney JOSEPH G. SCALI for mail fraud, structuring cash transactions, making false statements to the IRS, obstructing the IRS, tax evasion, obstruction of justice, and perjury. The jury convicted SCALI yesterday on all 10 counts of the Indictment following a four-week trial before Judge Nelson S. Román.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division and Chief James Gimler of the Hatch Police Department announced that Jesse Denver Hanes, who shot and killed Hatch Police Officer Jose Chavez on Aug. 12, 2016, was sentenced today to a lifetime ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: MISSOULA-Rachel Leanna Ross, 26, of Somerville Tennessee, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, 3 years supervised release, and a $100 surcharge by United States District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen on Friday, March 2, 2018 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute controlled...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD), and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL) announced today a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on legislation reauthorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and spurring the deployment of next-generation wireless services.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lafayette man previously convicted of a felony pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing a.40 caliber pistol and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2018
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Federal officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested nine criminal aliens and immigration violators in Indiana’s Allen, Elkhart and St. Joseph counties during a two-day enforcement action, which ended Wednesday.
