News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - After deliberating for approximately three hours, a former resident of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was convicted by a jury of seven men and five women for violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly served more than 20 years in federal prison in U.S. citizen’s name.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN -After a four-day jury trial, Samuel Culp, 21, was found guilty Hobbs Act Business robbery, brandishing and discharging a firearm during a robbery, and possession of stolen firearms. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two Erie County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy, bank fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Vishwanath Akuthota, age 27, of Albany, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison, to be followed by 1 year of supervised release, for intentionally damaging computer equipment owned by The College of St. Rose. Akuthota was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $58,471.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Fayette County man pled guilty for his participation in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) in Fayette County, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Ryan Johnson, 37, of Oak Hill, Fayette County, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute more than 100 grams of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Phillip R. Carawan of Columbia, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today in federal court in New Bern, North Carolina, on charges that his company, Capt. Neill’s Seafood Inc., at Carawan’s direction, falsely labeled millions of dollars’ worth of foreign crabmeat as “Product of USA.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Michael James Friesen, 33, of Prineville, Oregon, was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for conspiracy to transfer and unlawful possession of a machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO -Jerrinon Tate, 28, of St. Louis, MO, sentenced to a term of fourteen years in federal prison for brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. He appeared today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement regarding a newly-released Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested about the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in the Medicare Part D program...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Leroy Percell Burrell, age 32, of Washington, D.C., to 162 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for three armed robberies in which Burrell brandished a firearm. Judge Hazel also entered an order requiring Burrell to pay restitution of $2,680.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN -After a four-day jury trial, Samuel Culp, 21, was found guilty Hobbs Act Business robbery, brandishing and discharging a firearm during a robbery, and possession of stolen firearms. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: A recent NPS study shows that Arctic national parks are losing lakes rapidly where ice-rich permafrost dominates the landscape even though precipitation has remained largely the same over time. In Bering Land Bridge National Preserve alone, 3 square miles of lakes drained in 2018, a single-year loss...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that five different defendants appeared in federal court during the past week to plead guilty to traveling in interstate commerce for the purpose of having sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Corpus Christi federal jury has returned a guilty verdict against a Pharr man for unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. They deliberated for less than three hours before finding Heriberto Lerma guilty as charged.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, FL-FBI Jacksonville and the Duval County Public Schools’ Parent Academy will partner again in the 2019-2020 school year to offer the “Be Smart with your Kids’ Smartphone" presentation to parents, caregivers, and educators.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Rudolph Randolph Meighan (28, Belize), Jorge Ramon Newball-May (49, Colombia), and Calbot Reid-Dilbert (59, Colombia) each to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for their roles in an international maritime cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Charleston men pled guilty to federal drug trafficking offenses, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. presided over the hearings.
