News from April 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Robert M. Duncan, Jr., the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, has announced his support for the DEA and Lexington Police Department, in their National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, on Saturday, April 27th, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and his encouragement to the public...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Fairview Park man was charged with assaulting federal officers and illegally having a firearm after he allegedly had a firearm and struck task force officers who were trying to arrest him.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: On May 2, 2019 at 9: 0 a.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing with Attorney General William Barr regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report and related matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Dunbar man pled guilty to being a felon in possession of firearms, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kenneth Stover, 43, entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio, 45-year-old Kelley Ranae Jones was sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing over $900,000 from her employer, the Arrowhead Bank in Llano, TX, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.

By USDA Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., April 25, 2019 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) requests comments on the agency’s authority to build and maintain a funding reserve in its Agricultural Quarantine Inspection (AQI) User Fee Program. APHIS’ AQI program supports ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man has been indicted on an additional charge stemming from his role as the leader of a drug trafficking organization that dealt heroin and crack cocaine in and around Newark, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut John H. Durham, announced that Ernesto Luis Delgado, also known as “Pancho," 34, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Peter Goodchild, 56, of Philadelphia, PA, was convicted today at trial on charges of embezzling almost $1.6 million from his former employer, QwikSource, over a ten-year period beginning in 2005 and ending in 2015 through a wire fraud scheme. Goodchild was also convicted of money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and filing false income tax returns during this period.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - More than 250 law enforcement personnel this morning arrested 24 members and associates of the Westside Verdugo street gang in San Bernardino who are charged in eight federal indictments, one of which alleges they deliberately got themselves arrested in order to smuggle narcotics and syringes hidden in their body cavities into San Bernardino County jails.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio, 45-year-old Kelley Ranae Jones was sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing over $900,000 from her employer, the Arrowhead Bank in Llano, TX, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Attorney's ex-wife lost challenge to ownership of settlement funds.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 2, 2019, a federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a single count indictment against the following individuals for their roles in the distribution of heroin and fentanyl in the Eastern District of Tennessee and elsewhere.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: The 2019 ceremony is focused on The 4th Amendment in the 21st Century Digital Age.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Opportunity for the Public to Dispose of Unused Prescription Drugs.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ashley E. Browning, age 32, of Union, South Carolina, was sentenced in federal court after pleading guilty to preparing and presenting false tax returns. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Browning to 2 years in federal prison and ordered that she pay over $200,000 in restitution to the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: A Fairview Park man was charged with assaulting federal officers and illegally having a firearm after he allegedly had a firearm and struck task force officers who were trying to arrest him.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Celadon Group, Inc. Enters into Corporate Resolution for Securities Fraud and Agrees to Pay $42.2 Million in Restitution.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: DALTON, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Plaze Aeroscience - operating as Plaze GA - for exposing employees to fire and burn hazards at the company’s facility in Dalton, Georgia. The specialty chemical manufacturer faces $107,164 in penalties.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2019
News Release: Arson Subject Charged in Federal Case.