News from September 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury today voted to convict Dwayne G. Perkins, age 37, of Albany, of possessing and intending to distribute heroin, cocaine, and more than 28 grams of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Rhode Island man was arrested today and charged in connection with a scheme to embezzle over a million dollars from a Massachusetts company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Valerie A. Nickerson and U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Craig Carpenito, announced the longtime leader of one of Newark’s largest and most violent street gangs was sentenced today to two...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - Nora L. Steele, the former operations director of a Rock Island, Ill., program that provided summer and after-school meals to at-risk children today waived indictment and plead guilty to defrauding the government of approximately $515,617, and filing a false tax return. Steele, 66...
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 26, entitled “Genocide Against the Burmese Rohingya." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - United States Attorney Peter E. Deegan, Jr. joined the Department of Justice today in announcing more than $113 million in grant awards to improve public safety, serve victims of crime, combat violence against women, and support youth programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities, including $373,511 in funding for public safety and community policing to the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A suspended Massachusetts State Police Trooper has agreed to plead guilty today in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Special Note: Yesterday, as of 6:00 pm, Joe Sampson’s Northern Rockies Incident Management Team 5 took command of the Howe Ridge and Boundary fires. Weather: This morning will start partly cloudy with increasing cloud cover throughout the day. There is a chance for light rain in the late afternoon and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - The U.S. District Court has entered a civil judgment of $1,374,058, in favor of the United States and against Calloway Laboratories, Inc. (“Calloway"), a clinical laboratory based in Woburn, Massachusetts, holding Calloway liable for submitting false claims to federal healthcare programs, including Medicare and TRICARE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Since August 2018, members of the Vermont State Police Drug Task Force (VDTF), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been investigating the importation, sale and distribution of heroin and fentanyl in the greater Caledonia County area. The investigation identified both local distributors and out-of-state suppliers of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston yesterday to charges of drug possession and assaulting federal law enforcement officers in connection with his role in obtaining cocaine from Puerto Rico through the U.S. mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant also allegedly used his official position to extort $10,000 from undercover FBI agent posing as the owner of a service-disabled-veteran owned small business.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Victor Kingsley, a Brooklyn resident, adding a charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction based on a fully assembled explosive device that police found in his apartment when he was arrested in February 2018. The new indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Defendant possessed over 1,000 images of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer joined the Department of Justice today in announcing grants to improve public safety in Indian Country. In Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute tribe received $1,646,931 as a part of this program. Of that amount, $898,918 is for Public Safety and Community Policing (COPS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: In San Antonio today, a federal judge sentenced a former employee of the Central Texas Detention Facility - GEO (GEO) to 57 months imprisonment for agreeing to provide crystal methamphetamine to an inmate inside the federal detention facility announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division and U.S. Marshal Susan Pamerleau.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management invites volunteers to help maintain and improve the Sarvis Creek Cabin area south of Steamboat Springs Sept. 29 as part of National Public Lands Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Noel Graveran-Palacios (37, Tampa) to 10 years and 1 month in federal prison for conspiracy, credit card fraud, and identity theft. A federal jury found Noel Graveran-Palacios and his twin brother, Yoel Graveran-Palacios, guilty on April 24, 2018. Yoel Graveran-Palacios was sentenced on September 4, 2018, to 9 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Ronquieze Head, 36, and Seronte Newby, 30, both of Cincinnati, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to crimes related to theft from gun stores in Ohio and Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield gynecologist was sentenced today in connection with allowing a pharmaceutical sales representative to access patient records and lying to federal investigators.
