News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The DEA announced the sentencing of Omar Moreno-Miranda, 33, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, to 60 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Moreno-Miranda pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge has sentenced a California man to 35 years in prison for overseeing an international drug-trafficking organization that used Amtrak trains to ship heroin and cocaine to Chicago from Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Yuriy Khalabuda, 37, of Ukraine, was sentenced to 16 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: A two-time convicted felon and methamphetamine user who unlawfully possessed a firearm was sentenced Sept. 11, 2018, to more than 6 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after Republican Members of the Committee met with Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar regarding the Administration’s priorities, including reducing the cost of prescription drugs...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: On Aug. 28, 2018, Alfredo Garcia, 35, of Miami-Dade County, was sentenced to a total of 264 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Federico A. Moreno, after previously pleading guilty to three counts of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Roger Wallach, 38, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for manufacturing videos and images of two girls, ages 10 and 11, over a period of three months.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the 70-month prison sentence of Sean Griffin, age 24, that was imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion on May 2, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), released the following statement in response to an announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on plans to address youth tobacco use.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Charges Include Casino Theft And Bank Embezzlement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House passed by voice vote today the Senate amendment to H.R. 4318, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act of 2018. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation passed the House in January by a unanimous vote, and then the Senate amended the House bill in July and passed it by unanimous consent. The House today agreed to the Senate amendment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: She and Co-Defendant Disguised Themselves as Nuns in Attempted Hold-Up in Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Former Tuskegee Police Department Lieutenant Alex Huntley, 54, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and three years’ supervised release for beating a handcuffed and compliant arrestee, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., of the Middle District of Alabama, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An identified Boston gang member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing drugs in and around the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JAMES SIGLAR, age 41, of Lockport, LA, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, Wyo. - The public is invited to join the BLM for the 25th annual National Public Lands Day at Weston Hills Special Recreation Management Area on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A federal indictment unsealed today, Sept. 12, charge a Mexican national and 19 other Statesboro-area residents with multiple felonies including drug distribution, illegal firearms possession and related offenses resulting from a more than two-year joint operation of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: Orlando, FL - A federal jury today found Devin Lashawn Jefferson, II (22, Apopka) guilty of attempted possession with intent to distribute of furanyl fentanyl. Jefferson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Carnegie Investigation. The FBI is responding alongside the Bureau of Indian Affairs and local law enforcement partners to an incident that is believed to have occurred on Indian country land in Carnegie, Oklahoma, on Wednesday morning, Sept. 12, 2018. An adult male with multiple...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged four individuals with conspiring to illegally purchase firearms in an indictment returned here August 30 and unsealed today.
