News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that two men have been sentenced in Juneau for attempting to transport cocaine and marijuana from California to Alaska for distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Defaulted on Nearly $900,000 in Loans Received from His Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A physician and former employee of New England Pain Management Associates, Inc. was convicted today by a federal jury of conspiring to falsify patient medical records between May 2012 and May 2013 in an effort to obtain payments from Medicare and commercial insurers for medical services that were not performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Aeon L. Graham (23, Tampa) to six years and nine months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. Graham pleaded guilty on June 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Rite Aid Vice President and the two owners of an Atlanta based company have been charged for their role in a $5.7 million vendor kick-back scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - United States Attorney Bill Powell joined Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Justice Department leadership this week in announcing the recipients of the Second Annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing, recognizing the exceptional work of 25 law enforcement officers and deputies from 12 jurisdictions across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Thomas, age 53, of Green Island, New York, was arraigned yesterday on a charge that he possessed and intended to distribute crack cocaine and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service plans to conduct a prescribed fire this October at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). The fire is a tool intended to restore habitat in forested ecosystems in the park. The 467-acre burn unit is within the National Lakeshore’s Platte River District...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that James O’Dell, 54, and Robin Buell, 50, both of Bennington County, VT appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington, following their arrests for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Arthur Perrault Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood for Allegedly Sexually Abusing Child on Kirtland Air Force Base and Santa Fe National Cemetery in 1991 to 1992.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Nashon T. Nance, 21, of Syracuse, pled guilty yesterday in federal court to possessing a pistol as a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Ashan M. Benedict, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)-New York Field Division, and Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Benjamin J. Varieur, age 33, of Saratoga Springs, New York, and formerly of Brunswick, New York, pled guilty today to receiving child pornography via an encrypted messaging application on his phone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon stated that yesterday, United States District Judge Brian Harwell sentenced Jonathan Stefan Vanderhorst, age 23 of Tabor City NC, to 660 months (55 years) of incarceration as a result of his convictions for Conspiring to Commit Hobbs...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Courtny Orlando Campbell, 27, of Philadelphia, pled guilty today before Chief United States District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Jere T. Miles, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that VINCENTIA ROQUES (“ROQUES"), age 40, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty yesterday to access device fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - Due to drying conditions and high fuel loading, the Bureau of Land Management High Desert District is implementing fire restrictions for all BLM-administered public lands within the boundaries of Sublette and Lincoln Counties, beginning midnight Sept. 21, 2018. The BLM urges visitors to these public lands to adhere to the restrictions, which aid firefighters and help prevent new fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: A former farmer who lied to his bank about how much land he was farming and how much crop he had in storage in order to secure a loan and a line of credit was sentenced Sept. 20, 2018, to a year in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - In keeping with the Administration’s goal of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States State Office (BLM-ESSO) quarterly oil and gas lease sale, held Sept. 20, 2018, resulted in competitive bids for over 3,120.06 acres offered in the states of Arkansas and Michigan.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said today that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to permit a Texas billionaire who paid $275,000 at auction to hunt a critically endangered black rhino in Namibia and bring it as a trophy back to the United States is an insult to taxpayers and the very idea of environmental protection. There are fewer than 5,500 black rhinos in the wild, and Namibia has fewer than 2,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2018
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a Lafayette man who owned a company that purported to sell chemical free disinfection machines was indicted for stealing more than $2 million from investors.
