News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO -Joey Wong Hernandez was sentenced to 180 months in prison for production and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan L. Spradlin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, Senior U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Two Canadian men were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to sell carfentanil, fentanyl, heroin and other drugs over the Internet and ship the drugs to locations in Europe, Canada and the United States, including Northern Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Strongsville man was charged in federal court after he allegedly defrauded companies, churches, schools and others out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Campgrounds and recreation areas on Bureau of Land Management public lands in northeast California are now opening for the spring and summer recreation seasons.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 9, 2019, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned a three-count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Henry County woman who co-owned Pittman Trucking Company ("PTC") pleaded guilty to obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"). D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Michael Wayne Pearson, 48, of Pearl, was found guilty yesterday, after a three day trial before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, of attempting to acquire a firearm by making fraudulent statements on a federal background check form and causing a federal firearms licensee to keep false information, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: DAYTON - Christopher Watson, 29, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 42 months in prison followed by three years of court supervision for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 9, 2019, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned a three-count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael A. Raskie, 36, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to three years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon. Raskie pleaded guilty to this charge on Jan. 14, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Rafael Ernesto Dones Rosa, 33, of Youngstown, with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and use of the mail in causing or facilitating the commission of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Danny Chapman, 68, Wichita, Kan., was sentenced today to two years on supervised probation for operating a gambling business and failing to pay income taxes on the proceeds, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. In addition, Chapman agreed to forfeit more than $1.6 million in cash, as well as cars, jewelry and other items.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Two Canadian men were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy to sell carfentanil, fentanyl, heroin and other drugs over the Internet and ship the drugs to locations in Europe, Canada and the United States, including Northern Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - This Saturday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its local law enforcement and community partners will collect expired, unused, and unwanted prescription medications at 19 collection sites throughout Alaska. The service is free of charge, no questions asked. Last October, residents of Alaska turned in 3,977 pounds (2 tons) of prescription medications.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Michael Alex Miller, 19, of Gulfport, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to one count of accessing with intent to view visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Wethersfield Police Chief James Cetran today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging SAMUEL NEATHERY, 29, and DAISY FELIBERTY, 35, both of Florida, with robbing a Wethersfield bank at gunpoint in December 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 23, 2019, United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced John Jacob Hasay, age 22, of Benton, Pennsylvania, to 24 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for the illegal possession of a machinegun.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A man who assaulted two visitors in Yellowstone National Park last July will serve 6.5 years in prison. Jackson B. Coombs, age 30, was recently sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty at a separate court hearing to one count of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of simple assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Tangier Island man pleaded guilty today to violating the Lacey Act by harvesting oysters from the Chesapeake Bay in excess of Virginia limits and transporting them to Maryland for sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Two Pharmaceutical Companies Agree to Pay a Total of Nearly $125 Million to Resolve Allegations That They Paid Kickbacks Through Copay Assistance Foundations.
