News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas, Nevada, doctor was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for his role in a prescription drug conspiracy to distribute hydrocodone and oxycodone by allowing his co-conspirators to write illegal opioid prescriptions using his pre-signed prescription pad.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Interested in knowing where international students are studying? Or where students engaged in practical training are employed? The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) published a series of data Thursday about international students studying in the U.S. during calendar year 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A California securities attorney was sentenced today for his role in schemes to manipulate the stock of two publicly traded companies, Greenway Technology and Crown Marketing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: BOISE - This Saturday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public its16th opportunity in eight years to prevent overdose deaths and drug addictions before they start by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused, and unwanted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: SEATTLE - This Saturday, Oct. 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., (local time) the federal Drug Enforcement Administration DEA and its local law enforcement, community and tribal partners in the Pacific Northwest will collect expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at one of 209 collection sites. There are 19 collection sites in Alaska, 35 in Idaho, 60 in Oregon, and 95 in Washington State. The service is free of charge, no questions asked.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: EMINENCE, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways will host an open house and reunion at the historic Chilton-Lesh-Williams farmsteads near Owls Bend on Saturday, Nov. 3, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. During this time the Chilton House and the nearby Williams-Lesh House will both be open to the public. Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 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 REGAN TIPPETT, 43, of East Lyme, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to federal tax offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today released a statement following the Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement on the creation of the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force. The Energy and Commerce Committee has spent more than a year investigating alleged pill-dumping in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio -William P. Elschlager, 49, of Marietta, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $2,500 fine for cyberstalking.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Two Men Wanted in Connection with Recent Armed Grocery Store Robberies.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today released a statement following the Department of Justice (DOJ) announcement on the creation of the Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force. The Energy and Commerce Committee has spent more than a year investigating alleged pill-dumping in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SHOLOM MURATOV and MENACHEM ABRAMOV were convicted yesterday, following a seven-day trial in Manhattan federal court, of conspiring to defraud diamond sellers in Mumbai, India out of more than $12 million in loose diamonds. MURATOV will be sentenced on March 26, 2019 and ABRAMOV will be sentenced on March 28, 2019, by Judge Lorna G. Schofield, who presided over the trial.
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: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Cheryl Barrera, 50, South Beloit, Illinois, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to four years in federal prison for possessing 50 grams of more of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Barrera pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 1, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Alfredo Amaya Diaz, of Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia, was sentenced today to five years probation for filing a false tax return, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced today that DAVID OHNMACHT, a registered sex offender, was sentenced to 390 months in prison for enticing a 14-year-old girl via Instagram to engage in sexual conduct and for engaging in this criminal conduct...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways will be conducting a managed deer hunt for Exceptional Warriors the first weekend of November at Big Spring. Portions of the Big Spring area will be temporarily closed to the public from Friday, Nov. 2, until the morning of Monday, November 5, to help...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Oct. 25, 2018 - Timothy Weakley, 52, of Nashville, Tennessee, was charged yesterday in a criminal complaint with three counts of bank robbery, following the morning robbery of the Rivergate Branch of Regions Bank in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 25, 2018
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of a child and for illegally possessing a firearm.
