News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: FBI and Local Law Enforcement Seek Information on Murder of Virginia State Trooper.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on three produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former president of a Texas-based non-profit has been charged in an indictment unsealed today for his role in a scheme to conceal the fact that a 2013 Congressional trip to Azerbaijan was funded by the Azerbaijan government.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: ELY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management Ely District, Caliente Field Office has concluded an emergency wild horse gather within and outside of the Eagle Herd Management Area focused on the Fortification Range Wilderness. The BLM gathered and removed 300 excess wild horses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant took over $90,000 by forging signatures.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the Senate passed, by a vote of 99 - 1, H.R. 6, a package of bills aimed at tackling the opioid crisis. Included in H.R. 6 is the Synthetics Trafficking and Overdose Prevention (STOP) Act, legislation to help prevent the shipment of synthetic opioids into the United States through the international mail system...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Ontario man who worked as a bankruptcy petition preparer (BPP) surrendered this morning to federal authorities to face criminal charges of lying to the United States Bankruptcy Court about his role in preparing petitions under assumed names and overcharging his clients - actions he took after repeatedly being ordered to cease his activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Owen Fickett, 31, of Harrington, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possession with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Hammond, 26, of Suitland, Md., pled guilty today to charges stemming from an armed carjacking in the Ivy City neighborhood of Northeast Washington in which he pistol-whipped the victim so violently that the gun broke into two pieces. He then fled from police before being captured a short time later at a construction site.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated today that Joey Lamont Brunson, a/k/a “Solo Flex," age 42 of Eutawville, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, was sentenced on all twelve of the charges in his federal indictment by United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - An Ames, Iowa sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today to child sexual exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 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 SERAFINO CANINO, 52, of Torrington, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to one count of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Defendant pistol-whipped a government cooperator, sent thousands of dollars in drug proceeds to his Mexican source of supply, and engaged in a 4 hour standoff with police who came to arrest him.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Harlem Slaughter Turner, III (41, Tampa) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Turner pleaded guilty on June 12, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 162,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2018/2019 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: U.S. Soldier Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Illegally Manufacturing, Using a Chemical Weapon.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The White House Visitor Center is displaying a newly carved Double Scottish Rose that celebrates the legacy of the original stonemasons of the White House. The Double Scottish Rose design became popular in the 18th century and was a great source of pride for the people of Scotland, including the Scottish stonemasons who worked on the White House in the 1790s. The design appears throughout the White House exterior walls, columns, porticos and above the North Door.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2018
News Release: Owner of New York City Pharmacies Charged in Scheme to Defraud Medicare and Medicaid.
