News from August 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Anthony Saunders, 45, previously admitted that on April 28, 2018, officers with the Huntington Police Department conducted a traffic stop in the 1000 block of 28th Street in Huntington. Officers located approximately 562 oxycodone pills hidden under the carpet of the driver’s side of the vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Tinesha Joann Burrows, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was arrested and had an initial appearance Friday after being indicted July 23, 2019 by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty today to an arms-trafficking crime related to his export of guns to Australia, announced United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray will join law enforcement, community leaders and residents on Tuesday, August 6th at Rollins Park, Concord from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Everett, Washington, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced defendant Bryan Heath Wester, 43, a resident of Springville, Alabama, to imprisonment for 12 months and one day for tampering with a consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man, Dana Stevenson, 28, plead guilty today for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The United States Drug Enforcement Administration would like to remind people that, aside from the obvious legal jeopardy, purchasing prescription drugs over the internet comes with inherent dangers. D. Christopher Evans, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Louisville Field Division, warns that a current investigation into on-line drug sales has turned up a batch of counterfeit pills, made with methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Rogelio Santacruz Godinez, also known as “Tramposo," also known as “Trampa," Citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury convicted Abhijit Prasad of 21 counts of visa fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft. U.S. Attorney David Anderson for the Northern District of California and U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott for the Eastern District of California made the announcement. The verdict was handed down today after a one-week trial before Charles R. Breyer, United States District Judge.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Prior to the Senate’s adjournment for the August state work period, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced legislation to improve access to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Section 1703 loan guarantee program. Her new bill would allow certain state financing entities to be fully eligible for the program, providing a new pathway for states to secure financing for projects that will reduce energy costs and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Nagan Construction, Inc., Admits Submitting Certified Payroll Records that Misrepresented the Type of Work Performed by Employees and Agrees to Pay Workers Back Wages.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of several Boston-based investment companies was arrested yesterday at Logan Airport on charges of operating a Ponzi-like fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging the following individuals with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and kidnapping, for allegedly forcing a woman to engage in commercial sex acts for the financial benefit of the defendants. Charged in the indictment are.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Fugitive Wanted for Murder, Kidnapping, and Racketeering Captured in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Joshua Hooper, 36, of Manchester, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Local area high school students from the surrounding Wartburg, Tennessee, area recently finished their summer working on the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) team at Obed Wild and Scenic River.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that after a three-day trial and two hours of deliberation, a federal jury found Dayquan O’Neal Phillips, age 23, of Lexington County, guilty of 10 counts: four counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, three counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis is encouraging the public to join law enforcement, community leaders and local residents on Tuesday, August 6th to celebrate the 36th annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event taking place in multiple cities across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2019
News Release: According to court documents, between November 2017 and April 2018, Sanchez-Lopez stole more than $87,000 from the following six banks in Oregon and Southwest Washington.
