News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Conspired to distribute over a kilogram of meth, and possessed a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating the federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: A former executive director at the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA), pleaded guilty today for his role in a billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from PDVSA.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - Today a Madison, Alabama woman pled guilty in federal court to making a false statement, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A local businessman pleaded guilty today to charges of orchestrating a multi-year investment fraud scheme causing at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses to dozens of victims.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Friday, November 9, the National Park Service will close 17th Street between Constitution Avenue NW and Independence Avenue SW from 6 a.m. until approximately 4 p.m. to perform a test installation of the 17th Street levee. Motorists, pedestrians and cyclists should plan alternative routes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of bank robbery, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX- On Oct. 29, 2018, brothers Corwin Haskan, 21 and Corey Irving Haskan, 22 of Pinon, Ariz., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to108 months’ imprisonment. Both had previously pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Johnstown, Pa. pharmacist has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of dispensing and distributing controlled substances and conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Richard Smith, 65, of St. John, was arrested today on an indictment charging him with seaman’s manslaughter, United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced. Smith made his initial appearance before Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Jamaican man was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for his role in transporting 15 kilograms of cocaine from South Carolina to Virginia, as a drug courier for a Panamanian drug trafficking organization (DTO).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
Release: Washington, D.C. - Nov. 2, 2018. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing updates to its virus elimination flat rate payments for table egg laying bird barns and table egg storage and processing facilities affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or H5 and H7 subtypes of low pathogenic avian influenza (H5/H7 LPAI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Laurinburg man who fled from police into an occupied home was sentenced to federal prison today, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Person incapable of Consent was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark W. Lewis, 57, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, was sentenced on October 26 by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 48 months in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it. Lewis pleaded guilty to this charge on July 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Ten individuals, most of whom are from Brockton, were charged today in federal court in Boston in a wide-ranging fentanyl and cocaine conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Clint Registe, 37, of Anchorage, was named in a criminal complaint charging him with felon in possession of a firearm, which stems from a July 2018 homicide investigation. Registe is in custody and is currently awaiting a court appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge on the federal charge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: Put-in-Bay, Ohio - In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the purpose of satisfying the compliance requirements for the implementation of the Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Cultural Resource Treatment Plan(CLTP). The EA documents results of the potential environmental impacts associated with the implementation of the CLTP treatment recommendations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: The leader of a multi-state methamphetamine trafficking ring will spend more than 23 years in prison after sentencing this week in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mangal Gill, 58, of San Ramon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to 4 years and 3 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery and identity fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
