News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against A Vern Saeteurn, 30, of Sacramento, charging him with possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, doing so in a location where children were present, and possession of stolen firearms, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced that a jury found Darowe Junior Jones, 39, of Tulsa, guilty on Wednesday of multiple crimes, including conspiring to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and more than 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: An Elyria man was indicted in federal court for sexually exploiting a child in Utah and related child pornography crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Jimmy Euresti, 41, of Fresno, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Anthony Brooks, 29, of Indian Head, Md., was sentenced today to 10 years in prison on federal charges of transporting a minor across state lines with intent to sexually abuse her. The minor was a 14-year-old girl whom Brooks tutored as part of an afterschool program the child was ordered to attend by a family court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Two pharmacists plead guilty, another pharmacist and physician face charges, and a pharmacy company agrees to pay 1.85 million in unrelated matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Jacob Bowling, a/k/a “Jakey," age 32, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for racketeering and drug conspiracies related to his participation in the gang activities of the Murdaland Mafia Piru (MMP), a subset of the Bloods gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Glen Woods, of French Creek, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 27 months incarceration for his role in a stolen firearms conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of JESSE WELLS HAUG, 33, to 49 months in prison for defrauding real estate investors out of $880,000. HAUG, who pleaded guilty on June 4, 2018, to one count of wire fraud, was sentenced yesterday before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: A Mexican citizen was charged with possessing a firearm while illegally in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation will receive an estimated $848,459 in federal grant funds to fight methamphetamine trafficking, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced the formation of the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force (ARPO Strike Force), a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of the Health Care...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jack Wood, a/k/a Snake, 48, of Athens, TN, formerly of Delavan, NY, who was convicted of RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: EL PASO, TEXAS - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the El Paso Association of Contractors (EPAC) have signed an alliance to help protect the safety and health of construction workers in El Paso, Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement laying out serious reforms the World Trade Organization (WTO) should consider as trade representatives from multiple countries are set to meet in Ottawa, Canada...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Willimantic Police Chief Roberto Rosado today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging the following seven Willimantic residents with conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute, 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of JESSE WELLS HAUG, 33, to 49 months in prison for defrauding real estate investors out of $880,000. HAUG, who pleaded guilty on June 4, 2018, to one count of wire fraud, was sentenced yesterday before Chief Judge John R. Tunheim in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Paul Fichera, 29, of Durango, Colo., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 154 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on bank robbery and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced the formation of the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force (ARPO Strike Force), a joint law enforcement effort that brings together the resources and expertise of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced CHRISTOPHER PARRISH, 33, of Fayetteville, to 74 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised...
