News from October 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: When Andrew “Andy" Borra boarded his flight from New York to Puerto Rico in September 2017, nothing could have prepared him for what he was about to see.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - John C. Verstraete, 55 of Kansas City, KS, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Missouri for health care fraud and illegal prescription of drugs. Dr. Verstraede appeared before Judge Gary A. Fenner who accepted his plea to health care fraud and distribution of controlled substances outside the scope of legitimate medical practice in April.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty last week to transporting nine illegal aliens in Calcasieu Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Belton, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in north central Missouri and for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: DENVER - During an early raid the morning of Oct. 18, 2018, more than 100 law enforcement officers arrested members of two separate but related drug trafficking organizations, U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, FBI Denver Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Janeen Diguiseppi, DEA Denver Division Special Agent...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Thousand Oaks, Calif. - Are you ready to get scared (but in a really fun and unique way)? On Saturday, Oct. 27, the National Park Service will host Scare-A-Mount Ranch, a one-of-a-kind event in the Santa Monica Mountains.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man who stole the personal banking information of several individuals, including a retired Providence firefighter, and used that information to gain access to their bank accounts, was sentenced on Wednesday to 60 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL SIVA pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alison J. Nathan to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and fraud in connection with his role in an insider trading scheme based on material, nonpublic...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a second superseding indictment Thursday morning in the Aaron Michael Shamo case. The 13-count indictment alleges a count of aiding and abetting the distribution of a controlled substance (fentanyl) resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that BRENT ANTHONY SILVA, age 52, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, pleaded guilty as charged today before United States District Court Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to a one-count bill of information charging him with conspiracy to make...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Under the leadership of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Department of Justice charged the largest number of violent crime and firearm defendants in its history in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Oct. 17, 2018, Jerry Bowman, 58, of Johnson City, Tennessee, was arrested for the robbery of the Carter County Bank on Milligan Highway in Johnson City, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Curtis Pixley, 39, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty yesterday before Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to intentionally assaulting another person and to possessing a shank in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: For Possessing A Firearm In Furtherance of A Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that a Crowley man pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing sexually explicit images of juveniles.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: Whiskeytown, Calif. - The National Park Service has re-opened the Carr Powerhouse area, as well as lakeshore access from the pullouts on the east side of Whiskey Creek Road as part of its ongoing, phased re-opening in the wake of the Carr Fire. All areas previously re-opened will remain open. These include the visitor center (open daily from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.), the Shasta Divide Nature Trail, East Beach, and the Whiskey Creek boat ramp and picnic area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: The Medical Director of a substance abuse treatment center in Wellington, Florida, pled guilty today to unlawfully distributing controlled substances (opioids, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for a nearly $500,000 investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 18, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gerald A. Lawson III, 31, of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 60 months in prison for acting as a straw purchaser for Quentin L. Smith, a convicted felon who shot and killed two Westerville Police Officers on Feb. 10, 2018.
