News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Michael Talon Barnes, age 27, of Wister, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 238 months’ imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Possession Of A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury in March indicted a Birmingham college student for Advertisement, Sale, and Possession of Child Pornography announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Tuesday to examine the current migration crisis at the U.S. southern border, apprehensions, drug flow data, and compare recent data to historical trends. The witnesses offered frontline perspectives on the current challenges compared to past trends.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Alphonso L. Howard, Jr., age 28, of Decatur, Georgia, pled guilty today to creating counterfeit checks and then cashing them at banks in Saratoga and Warren Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced ANTHONY DEFORREST TYREE, 35, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina to 24 months imprisonment, followed by 6 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A local man has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for fraud. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office plans to conduct prescribed fires in Montrose County in the coming weeks when conditions warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced today that U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced JOSHUAL HILTON, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 384 months in federal prison following his convictions after a three-day jury trial in June 2018 for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury sitting in Abingdon, Virginia, has indicted Indivior Inc. (formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals Inc.) and Indivior PLC (Indivior) for engaging in an illicit nationwide scheme to increase prescriptions of Suboxone Film, an opioid drug used in the treatment of opioid addiction, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-MA-7) introduced the Bringing an End...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Mitchell, 38, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Chad Markle and Tiffany Markle, both of Wheeling, West Virginia, will be arraigned this week on drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, April 7-13, 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee will be participating in several events across the district including.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 46-year-old man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Martin Arambula pleaded guilty Dec. 27, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas returned an indictment Tuesday charging a Mexican man with conspiracy to import and importing methamphetamine into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Donald Landry Beverly, 25, of Bakersfield, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for assaulting a federal officer, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Iranian National Indicted and Former SCB Employee Pleaded Guilty for Criminal Conspiracy to Violate Iranian Sanctions.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired an oversight hearing to examine the president’s nearly $5.7 billion budget request for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen testified on behalf of the Forest Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Brian Burt, a/k/a “Sledge," (47, Port Orange) to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 9, 2019
News Release: Today, Committee Democrats convened a markup on H.R. 1010, a one-sentence bill that will not lower drug prices, will not protect anyone from surprise medical bills, will not lower premiums, will not cut any out-of-pocket costs, and will not provide any tax relief. All H.R. 1010 will do is eliminate short-term limited duration insurance plans which provide many Americans with insurance options in the individual health insurance market.
