News from August 2019

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DIALECTI VOUDOURIS, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Afghani citizen and United States Lawful Permanent Resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury for his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented aliens from Afghanistan to the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A law enforcement officer from Texas who was charged in federal court in Worcester earlier this week with cyberstalking, is now also charged with sexual exploitation of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Daniel Silva (619) 546-9713.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael Machak, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division, announced today that HECTOR EMILIO FERNANDEZ ROSA, a/k/a “Don H," was sentenced to life in prison...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Elko and Ely Districts will begin a wild horse gather on or about August 5, 2019 on the Antelope and Antelope Valley Herd Management Areas (HMA) located in eastern Nevada. In addition, gather operations will take place in areas outside the HMAs where...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: On July 31, 2019, Sabrinea Lallonie Brooks, 28, of St. Lucie County, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to 48 months in prison and ordered to pay $ 1,071,249 in restitution for orchestrating a wire fraud scheme and embezzling funds from employers (Case No. 19cr14020).

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Major Drug Supplier is Seventh Prosecuted as Member of Multi-State Drug Trafficking Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Adam W. Harper, 33, of Pocatello, was sentenced yesterday to 27 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill ordered that upon completion of his sentence, Harper will serve an additional three years of supervised release. A federal grand jury indicted Harper on Jan. 23, 2019.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: A man who unlawfully possessed a firearm after committing a crime of domestic violence was sentenced on July 30, 2019, to more than 3 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Spiro Y. Kassis, M.D., 66, of Plymouth Township, PA, was charged by Information with 14 criminal counts of distributing dangerous and addictive opioids and other controlled substances outside the course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: LENEXA, KS - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): the Kansas Department of Labor’s Division of Industrial Safety and Health, and McCarthy Building Companies Inc. in Leawood, Kansas, have established a strategic partnership to promote employee safety and health during construction of the Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility Expansion Project in Lenexa, Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STANLEY HUGOCHUKWU NWOKE, also known as “Stanley Banks," “Banks," “Hugo Banks," “Banky," and “Jose Calderon," 28, a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment for his role in a business e-mail compromise scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jose Hiram Martinez Rolon, 27, of Manchester, and Billy Damuel Maldonado Cancel, 26, also of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking charges in a 7-defendant narcotics case, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Christopher Nebling, age 35, was sentenced today to 360 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release on two counts of Production of Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Randy Stevens, 29, of Farmington, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the arrest of Terrian J. Knight (29, St. Petersburg) on a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. If convicted, Knight faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: A former narcotics supervisor from the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office was sentenced Friday for stealing methamphetamine that had been seized as evidence during multiple law enforcement investigations, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Trent Deundra Crump, 28, of Flowood, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan, III to 65 months in federal prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kirk Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Crump was also ordered to pay a $1,500.00 fine.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2019
News Release: Join San Antonio Missions National Historical Park for GPS with the NPS at Mission San Jose from 9:30 am-11:30 am on Saturday, August 3rd. Children and families are invited to use GPS technologies to explore and learn about the missions. Participants may arrive at any time from 9:30 am-11:30 am at the...