News from August 2019
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 1, 2019 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) invites stakeholders to submit project proposals for fiscal year (FY) 2020 to implement the National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) program of the Plant Protection Act, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Zahid Shakeel, 58, McFarland, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit money laundering related to the sale of synthetic cannabinoids at gas stations owned by Capitol Petroleum, LLC (Capitol Petroleum). Shakeel pleaded guilty to this charge on April 24, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 23-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: A portable machine that analyzes DNA in only 90 minutes. Sensors that warn about potential flood conditions. A wearable sensor that warns firefighters when fire temperatures become dangerous. Cyber security technologies that detect and counter malware. All these technologies were the result of funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur, along with federal, state, and local partners, announced that as a result of strategies applied to focus on the most violent neighborhoods and target those responsible for that violence, 90 defendants have been charged with federal crimes in investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On July 25, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Stockton residents Lucious James Roy, 33, and Dawniel Santangelo, 41, with sex trafficking of a child, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. The indictment was unsealed today.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Cory Gardner (R-CO), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) today introduced bipartisan legislation to help protect the health and safety of firefighters and emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Brandon Soublet, 27, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiring to transport stolen motorcycles across state lines, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that a federal jury in Monroe convicted two northeast Louisiana residents for robbing three financial institutions at gunpoint and for multiple firearms violations. The verdict came in this afternoon following a four-day trial, which was presided over by U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Zahid Shakeel, 58, of McFarland, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit money laundering related to the sale of synthetic cannabinoids at gas stations owned by Capitol Petroleum, LLC (Capitol Petroleum). Shakeel pleaded guilty to this charge on April 24, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HECTOR MAY, the president of Executive Compensation Planners, Inc. (“ECP"), a registered investment adviser and financial planning firm located in New City, New York, was sentenced to 13 years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Tupelo, Miss. - A total of eight individuals are behind bars today following their arrest by federal, state and local law enforcement officers on federal drug trafficking and weapons charges in North East Mississippi. The FBI together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tupelo Police Department announced that the arrests were made on Tuesday and Wednesday following an extensive multi-year, multi-agency investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Lattrick Williams, 26, of Brookhaven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 38 months in federal prison, followed by three years supervised release, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kirk Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Williams was also ordered to pay a $1,500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A California couple was arrested today on charges of operating a $7 million advance fee Ponzi scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Salina pharmacist was sentenced today to serve 36 months on probation -- including 18 months house arrest -- for diverting prescription drugs containing opioids, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. Her husband, who received the drugs from her, got the same sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Buckner, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for a more than $160,000 embezzlement scheme while employed at the Lake City Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was sentenced yesterday in connection with sending a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that threatened an armed attack on a South Boston school in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Box Elder resident Ryan John Gardipee on July 31 admitted to assaulting and injuring a woman during an argument that began while they were out for the evening and continued at a residence on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 23-year-old Richardson, Texas man has been arrested for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew DeSarno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brazilian national was sentenced yesterday in connection with sending a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that threatened an armed attack on a South Boston school in 2018.
