News from August 2019
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 DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gary Proctor, 41, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of first-degree murder while armed, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence, unlawful possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a license, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Rodrigo Caro-Gonzalez, 35, a noted drug trafficker residing in Eagle Point, Oregon, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The remains of Feiyang “Isaac" Xiang, a 21-year-old male from China who likely drowned in 2015, have been found and positively identified. Xiang, a seasonal concessionaire employee in Yellowstone, was last seen being swept down the Yellowstone River in the northern section of...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Hector Medina, age 37, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl resulting in the Death of another person. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced Medina to a 15-year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a 5-year term of court supervision after he is released from federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jeffrey Paul Hatch, 39, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court to using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By State Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement on the first anniversary of the Zimbabwean military opening fire on opposition activists and innocent civilians, killing at least six of them and injuring many more.
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: Natchez, Miss. - Javonte Lamar Butler, 20, of Natchez, pled guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette, III to stealing a firearm from a business that is licensed to sell firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Kirk Thielhorn, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Two heroin traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison after admitting to their roles in a major drug distribution conspiracy.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2019- The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will begin its annual distribution of RABORAL V-RG®, an oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait, in select areas in the eastern United States to prevent the spread of raccoon rabies into America’s ...
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: BILLINGS-A man who admitted selling methamphetamine in the Billings area was sentenced on July 31 to six years in prison and four years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced today the recent launch of a redesigned website for its Whistleblower Protection Program. The interactive, streamlined design highlights important information and data on more than 20 statutes OSHA enforces.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Rodrigo Caro-Gonzalez, 35, a noted drug trafficker residing in Eagle Point, Oregon, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Daniel Roy Mace, 37, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for child pornography and witness tampering charges. Mace was previously convicted by a federal jury on 15 felony charges: 12 counts of receipt of child...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez and U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey for the Eastern District of Tennessee announce that Scott Roix, together with several entities through which he ran his telemarketing business, including HealthRight, LLC; Health Savings Solutions, LLC; Vici Marketing, LLC;...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Gettysburg National Military Park has announced the closure of Coster Avenue to buses. Due to the narrow alley at the end of the street, buses cannot turn around without creating a safety hazard on Coster Avenue or potentially causing damage to private and park property and resources. Buses may park in the marked spaces along Stratton Avenue while their guests experience the monuments along Coster Avenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 23-year-old man has admitted he recruited a high school girl and trafficked her for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic Health leaders sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today seeking documents and raising a series of questions regarding the Trump Administration’s refusal of care rule, which drastically expands the types of health care...
