News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joined United States Attorney Justin Herdman, federal and local law enforcement officials today to announce a new strike force to target drug trafficking and violent crime in Cleveland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: FBI Director Christopher Wray’s Remarks Regarding Arrest of Cesar Sayoc in Suspicious Package Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces the sentencing yesterday of LUIS J. COTTO, age 31, a resident of New York, for charges stemming from a heroin and cocaine trafficking conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon. Judge Lemmon sentenced COTTO to a total of (78) months in prison followed by (2) years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Defendant Also Took Part in Creating Mirai and clickfraud Botnets, Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of Devices with Malicious Software.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced yesterday that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against defendant KEVIN CRAWFORD, of New Orleans, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1). CRAWFORD faces a maximum term of imprisonment of ten years, a $250,000 fine, three years supervised release following any term of imprisonment, and a $100 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Adam Arrow Weinberger, 57, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and William Morris Antelope, 47, of Cheney, Washington, are the latest sentenced in a multistate drug investigation, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Wednesday, Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Weinberger to 92 months in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release, and on Monday sentenced Antelope to 39 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that pharmaceutical companies Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie Inc. (“Abbott") will pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it employed kickbacks and unlawful methods of marketing and promotion to induce physicians to prescribe the drug TriCor®.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - Oct. 26, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elvis Lee Tom, 39, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pinedale, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault on a federal officer charge.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of strengthening America’s energy independence, the Eastern States State Office announces a quarterly online oil and gas lease sale to be held Dec. 13, 2018. The sale will include 1,438.46 acres located in Mississippi counties Forrest, George, Perry, Smith, and Stone; 942.78 acres in Muskegon County, Michigan; and 75.06 acres in Monroe County, Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: HONOLULU - Michael Phillip Patrakis, 46, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, was sentenced Thursday to 292 months in prison for producing child pornography of two minor females. The case is the result of a probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Hawaii Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: River of Change - a new film of the Missouri National Recreational River will premiere on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the Dakota Theater located on Walnut Street in downtown Yankton, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: Orlando, Florida - A federal jury has found Willie Tom Johnson (29, Orlando) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute cocaine. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 10, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ENRIQUE LARA, 36, of Chicago, Illinois, and JASMINE MORALES, 21, of McAllen, Texas, were charged yesterday with possessing with intent to distribute approximately 1,260 pounds of liquid methamphetamine, announced Robert J. Troester of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - GABRIEL ORTIZ, 36, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty yesterday to accepting bribes in return for smuggling contraband into the Federal Transfer Center, announced Robert J. Troester of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - United States Attorneys Scott C. Blader of the Western District of Wisconsin and Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that they have appointed Assistant United States Attorneys to lead the efforts of their respective offices in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the November 6, 2018, general election.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Detroit Police Officer Christopher Staton, 51, of Detroit, with one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and one count of making a false statement to a special agent of the FBI, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018 that ALEX SAUNDERS, age 26, a resident of Wylie, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: At the request of the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations § 99.7 - “Special Security Instructions" - to address concerns about potentially malicious drone operations over certain, high-priority maritime operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that CHARLES BROWN, age 30, of New Orleans, was charged with one count of conspiring to make false statements in connection with the purchase of a firearm and one count of being felon in possession of a firearm.
