News from August 2019
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Fort Pulaski National Monument will offer special programs on Sunday, Aug. 25 to commemorate the first landing of enslaved Africans 400 years ago in English-occupied North America at Virginia’s Point Comfort, now part of Fort Monroe National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on Aug. 15, 2019 Chief United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Dustin Pauly to a term of imprisonment of 262 months, to be served concurrently to an undischarged term of imprisonment in an unrelated state case. Pauly, 32, of Kearney, Nebraska, pleaded guilty earlier in federal court to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Bernard Lavon Woofter, 43, of Jackson, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Sulphur, Okla. - Chickasaw National Recreation Area will be holding a rededication ceremony for the Travertine Nature Center on Sept. 21, 2019, celebrating its first fifty years of service in educating and inspiring park visitors, as well as reaffirming this mission for the future.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-Colton Tony Dick, 22, of Oakridge, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to a single count of unlawfully taking an endangered species.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Errick Roseboro, 26 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of being a person prohibited from possessing a firearm, was sentenced to serve 12 months and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that, last Friday, a federal jury returned a guilty verdict against New Orleans East resident DWIGHT ALEXANDER, age 48, on five counts involving drug, firearm, and financial crimes. The jury also ordered the defendant to forfeit approximately $425,000 in proceeds from his illegal drug operation. United States District Judge Greg G. Guidry scheduled ALEXANDER’s sentencing for Nov. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: The Sesolinc Group has agreed pay up to $2.4 million to settle allegations that they supplied defective products and submitted false claims to the Army, Department of Veterans Affairs and General Services Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina partnered with Meals on Wheels in Wake County to promote the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Elder Justice Initiative (EJI) by writing an article for The Meal Times, the official newsletter for Meals on Wheels of Wake County. The monthly...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been arrested on federal criminal charges for allegedly threatening to commit violence at a women’s reproductive health clinic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A South Shore, Kentucky man pled guilty to a sex offense involving a minor, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Charles Wayne Logan, 39, pled guilty to traveling in interstate commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Walnut man was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison for illegally importing from China and selling $11 million worth of pharmaceutical-grade erectile dysfunction drugs that were falsely marketed as herbal remedies for men, some of whom suffered permanent injuries after consuming them.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: In San Antonio today, 38-year-old Armando Robledo Gonzales was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Benjamin Gray Burris, an orthodontist who owned several businesses that operated orthodontic clinics in Arkansas, was indicted today for perpetrating a bribery and fraud scheme involving former Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, announced U.S. Attorney Duane (DAK) Kees for the Western District of Arkansas and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: St. Louis -Ryan Easter, 27, of Florissant, MO, pleaded guilty to one felony count of possessing fentanyl. Easter appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Nov. 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Richard Eugene Derringer, 47, previously of Junction City, Kentucky was convicted by a jury, following a three-day trial, on Thursday, before Senior United States District Judge Joseph M. Hood. Derringer was found guilty of using a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct, for the...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: DENVER - A warrant unsealed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Aug. 16 to seize the oil tanker Grace 1, the petroleum aboard it, and $995,000, reveals the investigative work by special agents based in Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Nelson Bell Jr., 52, of Monroe, was sentenced today to 72 months in prison and three years of supervised release U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for possessing two sawed-off shotguns. He previously pleaded guilty to the federal charges on April 9, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2019
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-Colton Tony Dick, 22, of Oakridge, Oregon, pleaded guilty today to a single count of unlawfully taking an endangered species.
