News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: South Florida Health Care Facility Owner Convicted for Role in Largest Health Care Fraud Scheme Ever Charged by The Department of Justice, Involving $1.3 Billion in Fraudulent Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On April 4, 2019, Uriel Gonzalez-Perez, 32, of Douglas, Ariz. was sentenced for separate offenses by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to concurrent terms of 120 months’ imprisonment and 46 months’ imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. Gonzalez-Perez had previously pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and conspiracy to commit false statements in connection with the purchase of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Jeffrey Bernard Harris, age 40, of Selma, Alabama, was sentenced to the statutory maximum sentence of 120 months this week after earlier pleading guilty to one count charging a violation of 18 USC Section 922(g)(1), Prohibited Person (felon) in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: IRVINE, Calif. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators (IABTI) are donating beeping Easter eggs for visually-impaired holiday events.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Former Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway was sentenced this afternoon to 4 years and 8 months in federal prison for public corruption, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Bellmawr, N.J., man was charged yesterday in federal court in Worcester in connection with attempting to sexually exploit an 11-year-old boy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain today announced sentences in three separate immigration cases in which the defendants, who are all convicted criminals, were also convicted for the additional crime of illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported. The three cases are United States v. Marcos Mendoza-Jimenez; United States v. Walter Morales-Lopez; and United States v. Melvin Ramos-Moreira.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Allegany County, Md.- Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park is investigating painted graffiti found in the Paw Paw Tunnel. A $250 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons involved.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Visitors should prepared for snowy conditions in the Lower and Upper Grove.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Veteran Affairs Medical Center nurse who admitted to tampering with and fraudulently obtaining morphine and other opioid prescriptions at the VA Medical Center in Providence has been ordered to serve 24 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Pecos National Historical Park will offer a hike with Park Archaeologist Jeremy Moss to the site of the Lost Church on Sunday, May 5th. Along the one mile roundtrip hike to the ruins of the church, also known as the Ortiz Church, you will explore the fascinating history of some of the earliest...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Boone County man pled guilty today to drug and gun charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Bruce Lee Boardman pled guilty to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the Nitro Police Department, Boone County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. 119 Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, and the West Virginia State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: Former Attorney Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-To celebrate National Crime Victim’s Rights Week from April 7 to 13, there will be a free barbecue lunch and entertainment at the Yellowstone County Courthouse Lawn on April 12, U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following joint statement on the Senate Commerce Committee vote to advance the nomination of Heidi King to be administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Hon. Ann Marie Buerkle to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is conducting its annual public hearing to discuss the use of motorized vehicles and aircraft in the monitoring and management of wild horses on public lands on April 18, from 3-5 p.m. at the Marsing American Legion Community Hall, 126 S. Second Ave., Marsing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Isiah Pierce, 35, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a federal jury trial of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, fentanyl, and butryl fentanyl, maintaining a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: El Salvadoran found on board ship in Savannah harbor.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Five men who had been living in Park County, Colorado, were sentenced to federal prison terms after being caught growing and harvesting large amounts of marijuana. The sentencing hearings, which happened in Grand Junction, were announced by U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and DEA Denver Special Agent in Charge Tim McDermott.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge in Chicago has sentenced several defendants in a bank fraud scheme to prison terms and ordered them to pay more than $14.3 million in restitution.
