News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MAMDOUH ABDEL-SAYED, a former full-time lecturer at the City University of New York’s Medgar Evers College (“Medgar Evers College" or the “College"), was sentenced to six months in prison for selling...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, doctor to appear in court today on charges of illegally prescribing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Part of Department of Justice Efforts to Protect the Right to Vote and Prosecute Ballot Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - United States Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Terrence P. Donnelly will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A 2-month operation focused on reducing violent crime in Tuscaloosa resulted in federal charges against 36 defendants, with 40 guns seized, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson, Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson, Tuscaloosa County Sheriff Ron Abernathy and Tuscaloosa District Attorney Hays Webb.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal jury convicted David John Telles, Jr. of online enticement of a minor, travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin. The guilty verdict was handed down Oct. 29, 2018, following a jury trial before the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Roberto Torner, age 45, Liza Robles, age 34, both of Freeland, Pennsylvania, and David Alzugaray-Lugones, age 49, of Weatherly, Pennsylvania, were convicted on Oct. 31, 2018, of heroin trafficking, firearms, and stolen military C-4 explosives offenses. The 12-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Damiane Buehrer, 40, of Jonesville, Michigan, was sentenced yesterday to serve 46 months in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for participating in a dog-fighting conspiracy between November 2016 and December 2017. The Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew B. Birge of the Western District of Michigan made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dr. Roland F. Chalifoux, Jr., a physician associated with a pain management clinic in McMechen, West Virginia, will pay more than $28,000 in restitution as a part of an agreement, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Former Philadelphia Police officer Eric Troy Snell, age 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Snell admitted that he conspired with former Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF) Detective Jemell Rayam and others to sell heroin and cocaine seized by GTTF members. Snell pleaded guilty on the fourth day of his trial, which began on Oct. 29, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Charles McLoughlin will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 6, 2018, general election. AUSA McLoughlin has...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Four alleged members or associates of the Aryan Circle (AC) have been indicted and three arrested for their alleged roles in a Nov. 9, 2013 aggravated assault in Jefferson County, Missouri.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
Release: Summary:The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is reestablishing the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Animal Health. This federal advisory committee provides the Secretary of Agriculture with input and feedback about ways to prevent, conduct surveillance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Roberto Torner, age 45, Liza Robles, age 34, both of Freeland, Pennsylvania, and David Alzugaray-Lugones, age 49, of Weatherly, Pennsylvania, were convicted on Oct. 31, 2018, of heroin trafficking, firearms, and stolen military C-4 explosives offenses. The 12-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jabriel Crews, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - It was the most witnessed execution in U.S. history. On a sultry July evening in 1864 in Southwest Georgia, six Union prisoners of war were executed by their own for robbing and assaulting their fellow prisoners. These six, part of a larger group called the "Raiders", were hanged...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: United States Attorneys Peter Deegan and Marc Krickbaum announced today that Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs) Daniel Tvedt and Virginia Bruner will lead the efforts of their respective Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced that Nicole Halliett Holland, 49, former Director of Communications for the Fifth Circuit Solicitor’s Office and a resident of Columbia, pled guilty in federal court today to two fraud counts, one Wire Fraud and the other Mail Fraud. Senior United States District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie presided. Sentencing has been set for Feb. 26, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: VERNAL, Utah - The BLM Vernal Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental analysis (EA) for a proposed lease of phosphate resources on a tract, totaling 1,627.7 acres, to Simplot Phosphate LLC (Simplot). The fringe lease tract is located adjacent to the Simplot’s private land holdings north of Vernal. This notice initiates a 15-day comment period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2018
News Release: SENTENCING -- Tanya Scroggins. On Oct. 25, Tanya Lynn Scroggins was sentenced to 17 ½ years in federal prison for her role in a methamphetamine ring managed by white supremacists. In July, Scroggins pled guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute, after Texas DPS agents found her with...
