News from May 2018
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gary Owen Jones, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to an illegal possession of ammunition charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that DR. ERUM SHAHAB and WAIRE, LLC, doing business as ELLINGTON BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (“EBH"), have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments in which they will pay $805,071 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Alberto M. Michel, 41, of Casa Grande, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bury. Michel had previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to traffic marijuana and one count of accepting a bribe as a public official. He received a sentence of 90 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and a $24,000 forfeiture judgment.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - HARRY DEAN WHEELER, JR., 68, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today for attempting to entice a minor to have sex, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Three members of the United Bloods Nation gang (UBN or Bloods) were sentenced today on charges of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity (RICO) and murder, stemming from the 2014 double-murder of Douglas and Deborah London and the 2013 murder of Kwamne Clyburn, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. presided over the sentencing hearings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Dane Mitchell, 26, of Boston, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby, to 27 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms. Mitchell pled guilty on Aug. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 25-year-old Corpus Christi man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Fred Aaron Corona pleaded guilty Feb. 20, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2018
Release: LINTHICUM, MD. - Transportation Security Administration officers at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) caught a handgun at one of the airport’s checkpoints today.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: On Saturday, May 19, 2018, Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park will mark Armed Forces Day with a program in the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. At 11 a.m., Bugles Across America representative Garret Lewis will open the event with the playing of Taps. This will be followed by a 60 minute program highlighting the stories of some of the service men and women buried in the cemetery.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Omaha - National Park Service (NPS) Midwest Regional Director Cam Sholly announced the selection of Mark Foust as superintendent of Buffalo National River in Arkansas. Foust is currently the Superintendent of Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado. He assumes his new role late July.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management is working with the Nye County Sheriff’s Office regarding burros that were found shot to death on public land outside of Beatty, Nev. A report of three burros found dead of gunshots was first made on Saturday, May 5. Soon after an investigation was launched, an additional 10 wild burro carcasses were discovered. Due to the location and similar cause of death, they are believed to be linked to the three reported earlier.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: On May 8, 2018, Bruce J. Walker, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) and Assistant Secretary for the Office of Electricity (OE), testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Puerto Rico’s electric grid.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, following six days of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn returned guilty verdicts against Michael Crumble and Ramell Markus on charges of kidnapping conspiracy, kidnapping and committing physical violence in furtherance of an extortion. The charges are contained in an indictment arising...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A physician based in the McAllen area was charged in an indictment unsealed today for his role in a $240 million health care fraud and international money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - JOSE TOMAS CASTILLO-GARZA, 40, and CHARLES DANIEL LYNN, 34, of El Reno, Oklahoma, have been sentenced to federal prison for a bribery scheme, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Craig T. Pope, 29, and Justin B. Lane, 34, were arraigned on May 3 and today, respectively, in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned two separate indictments charging each of them with mailing threatening communications and threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction. The indictments were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: TWIN FALLS, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management Twin Falls District staff will join the Southern Idaho Off-Road Association, Magic Valley ATV Club and Jerome County on Saturday, May 19, to clean up the north rim of the Snake River Canyon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: FBI Releases 2017 Statistics on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man caught with oxycodone he was going to sell in Huntington in September 2017 was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison today, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Curtis Holcomb, 39, previously pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute oxycodone. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the West Virginia State Police Violent Crime and Drug Task Force.
