News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - This week, the Office of Justice Programs’ Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) awarded more than $8.4 million to support crime victims in Native American communities in 10 states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah and Washington. The group...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: The fourth annual Doors Open Gettysburg event offers an insider’s look at the preservation and history of four magnificent battlefield and farm structures at Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site. This free event is held during National Historic Preservation Month in cities and towns throughout the United States and internationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant Placed Packages on Flights from JFK Airport to Beijing at the Direction of Military Officers Assigned to the Chinese Mission to the United Nations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced former City of Miami Police officer, Schonton Harris, of Miami, to 15 ½ years in prison for her involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Charges involve over 350 thousand prescriptions for controlled substances and over 32 million pills; ARPO Strike Force grows to ten districts, expanding to include the Western District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal jury today convicted George Gilmore, a partner at an Ocean County law firm, of two counts of failing to pay over to the IRS payroll taxes withheld from the firm's employees and one count of making false statements on a bank loan application submitted to Ocean First Bank N.A., First Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - DEA New York Division Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan and U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr., announced that Myles Scales, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to possession with intent to distribute butyryl fentanyl. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Gregory Violette, 64, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 27 months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release. The defendant pleaded guilty to the violations yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: SAN JOSE - Diego Alejandro Aguilar was sentenced today to 70 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and selling firearms without a license, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Quintrell Morris, age 20, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to over 22 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, conspiracy to use/carry/possess/brandish firearms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On April 15, 2019, Ryan Pearson, 32, of Payson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan M. Brnovich to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Pearson had previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Cedrick K. Reddick, age 26, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to a total of 7 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee (“FFL") and to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: DENVER - SRC Energy, Inc., a Colorado-based oil and gas company, has agreed to pay $723,236 to resolve mineral trespass allegations regarding two oil and gas wells unlawfully drilled in Weld County, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Tuesday, April 16, 2019, Mark Aaron Culp, 56, of Columbia City, Oregon, pleaded guilty to knowingly trafficking counterfeit, Chinese-made Leupold-branded rifle scopes online. Leupold & Stevens, Inc., an Oregon company, manufactures its rifle scopes in Beaverton, Oregon.
By State Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: A Port St. Lucie, Florida, man was sentenced to 84 months in prison today for filing false tax returns on behalf of his clients and for failing to report his true income on his own income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Jennifer L. Fanopoulos, 41, of Boise, was sentenced yesterday to three years of probation for obtaining controlled substances by fraud. Fanopoulos was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge. Fanopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation Wednesday issued updated Central Valley Project South-of-Delta allocations for the 2019 contract year. This update reflects ongoing water supply improvements due to continued precipitation in March and early April.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Timothy Haley, Sr., 63, of Dunellon, FL, and Joseph Michael Long, 40, of Maryvale, TN, who were convicted of RICO conspiracy, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. Haley was sentenced to three years supervised release to include eight months home detention, and Long was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has signed a strategic partnership with the University of South Florida Safety and Health Consultation Program, and Shawmut Design and Construction Co. to promote worker safety and health during the construction...
