News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A federal grand jury has indicted three people allegedly involved with a local drug-trafficking organization on charges related to the distribution of carfentanil, a powerful fentanyl analogue that is sometimes used to sedate elephants and other large animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: One Indicted One Guilty Plea and Two Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - Vondell Henry Jr., 21 years old, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph VanBokkelen on his plea of guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah State Office is announcing the approval of final recreation business plans, including 44 new fee areas and modifications to 38 pre-existing fees. They will be used to improve existing infrastructure and to develop new campgrounds across the State of Utah, including Moab, Monticello, Cedar City, Salt Lake, and Vernal.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area may implement the following controlled burns and pile burns during the fall of 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced Kyle Mueller, age 24, of Thurmont, Maryland, to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for malicious use of explosive materials in connection with the detonation of a pipe bomb on a Thurmont Police Department vehicle. The sentence was imposed on Sept. 19, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - As part the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California’s strategy to reduce violent crime, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced the following cases involving illegal firearms and gang-related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday for receiving child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: GAHANNA, OH - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Rocky Fork Hunt and Country Club - located in Gahanna, Ohio - for failing to protect employees from rollover hazards after a worker suffered fatal injuries when the lawnmower he was operating tipped over.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - Kenneth Dunn, 60, of Nashua, pleaded guilty to making false statements to obtain federal employee disability benefits, announced United States Attorney Scott W. Murray.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - HILLIARD FAZANDE, III (“FAZANDE"), age 50, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to 18 months probation and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,000 to Hancock Whitney Bank, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: False Entries Underreported $12 Million in Workers Compensation Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: Etienne Allonce is scheduled to be arraigned today before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco at the federal courthouse in Central Islip on charges of health care fraud and conspiracy, for allegedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid out of millions of dollars. Allonce was expelled from Haiti...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An inmate who is now serving a prison sentence at FCI McKean pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of robbing a Jared Jewelry store in 2015, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kevin Green, age 57, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 3 years of probation for his theft of disability compensation benefits from a disabled and elderly Army veteran and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA").
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: After almost three decades of committing violent crimes, a Savannah man has been sentenced to nearly 16 years in federal prison for weapons possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced today that United States District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings sentenced Johnnie B. Day, age 53, of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, to 37 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release for multiple bank robberies. The Court ordered Day to pay restitution of $3,942.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday announced more than $1 billion in grants awarded across all 50 states to help combat the opioid crisis. These grants will be administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Sept. 22, join in the nation’s biggest celebration of the great outdoors on National Public Lands Day ! All national parks will have free admission and many will host volunteer service projects open to all.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - HILLIARD FAZANDE, III (“FAZANDE"), age 50, of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to 18 months probation and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $5,000 to Hancock Whitney Bank, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
