News from November 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Application deadline is 9:00 p.m. EDT, Feb. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former Vice President of Sales of Insys Therapeutics pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a nationwide conspiracy to bribe medical practitioners to unnecessarily prescribe a fentanyl-based pain medication and defraud healthcare insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Defendant bribed doctors and pharmacists to unnecessarily prescribe fentanyl spray intended for breakthrough cancer pain.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: MACON-The leader of a sex trafficking operation involving seven victims was sentenced to 174 months in prison, announced Charles E. Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Najiy Williams, a/k/a “King", age 36 of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced in federal court today by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - An individual from El Salvador, present in the country illegally, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of illegally re-entering the United States after removal, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 36-year-old Brownsville resident has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy and methamphetamine smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. A federal jury sitting in Brownsville convicted Jesus Yzaguirre Jr. March 12, 2018, following a six-day trial and less than three hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 13 years, to be followed by six years of supervised release on his conviction on charges of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a felon, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime and possession with intent to distribute heroin and crack cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Nov. 26, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Katie Bessette, age 30, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to time served (2 days in jail) for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former Army Reservist was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for stealing six machine guns and 10 handguns from a U.S. Army Reserve facility, escaping from federal prison, and attempting to rob two banks.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Today, Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue Team members are continuing to search the Longs Peak area for Micah Tice. They are searching areas in and around the Longs Peak Trail, East Longs Peak Trail, Granite Pass, and Jim’s Grove area. Search teams are also in the Estes Cone area, the Boulder Brook Trail area, the Storm Pass area and the Roaring Fork Drainage. Due to extremely high winds, searchers will focus their efforts below 12,000 feet today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Clynn Partee, 46, of Pascagoula, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to the federal crime of failure to register as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and U.S. Marshal George White.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: For Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
Release: BOSTON - When a full-size suitcase triggered an alarm on the Transportation Security Administration’s checked baggage scanner equipment at Boston Logan International Airport, it was anything but a routine matter when smoke began pouring out of the wheeled suitcase.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: MACON-The leader of a sex trafficking operation involving seven victims was sentenced to 174 months in prison, announced Charles E. Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Najiy Williams, a/k/a “King", age 36 of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced in federal court today by the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Kansas City, Mo., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to commit 10 armed robberies at local businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Three people from Michigan were sentenced to prison for using stolen identities to apply for fraudulent bank loans.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Dear Ambassador Bolton: We understand that you will be traveling to Brazil this week to meet with President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. In your announcement of the meeting on Twitter, you noted that the United States and Brazil “share many bilateral interests and will work closely on expanding freedom and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Columbus, OH pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kristina O’Connell, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that JUSTIN C. FREEMAN, 46, of Manchester, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a federal tax charge related to his filing false tax returns that substantially underreported his income.
