News from December 2019
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is continuing public notice for congressionally-mandated contract conversions pursuant to the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act). Today’s notice includes five additional draft repayment contract assignments from the Delta Division...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging Miguel marquis hutchinson, age 33, of Fayetteville, with Felon in Possession of a Firearm, Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA - A jury on Wednesday convicted a Missoula man accused of trafficking methamphetamine in the community of multiple drug and firearms crimes, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: GREENVILLE, Miss. - A Marshall County man was convicted Thursday afternoon of cyberstalking as well as a federal gun violation following a four-day jury trial presided over by United States District Judge Debra M. Brown. Anthony Robinson, 54, of Byhalia, Mississippi, was found guilty of Possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A retired city clerk of Caney, Kan. was sentenced Thursday to three years on federal probation for embezzling city funds, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. The defendant also was ordered to pay more than $150,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning after using his Twitter account to threaten to kill agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Allegedly Falsely Certified that the Products Were Manufactured in Countries Approved Under Federal Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Antoine Adem, M.D., 49, of Festus, MO, and his company, Midwest Cardiovascular, Inc., were sentenced today. Dr. Adem was sentenced to a prison term of 45 days and ordered to pay restitution of $149,199 and a fine of $55,000 for his involvement in a healthcare fraud scheme. Midwest Cardiovascular...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today that Sung W. Sohn, 50, of Burford, Georgia was sentenced to 12 months’ and one day imprisonment, and ordered to pay $224,000 in restitution by Chief United States District Judge Juan R. Sánchez for the interstate transportation of stolen property related to a scheme he perpetrated to steal and ship hundreds of office printers by misusing a product rewards program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 66-year-old Texarkana, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: In order to protect critical wildlife habitat for raptors and desert bighorn sheep, a number of climbing routes in Canyonlands and Arches national parks will close for up to six months each year. This temporary closure affects the following routes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. De Palma, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office announced that Evelio Suarez, a Hialeah check casher, was sentenced to prison today for laundering over $100 million in proceeds of healthcare, mortgage and identity theft tax refund fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - Starting on Jan. 1, 2020, Petrified Forest National Park will increase entrance fees for visitors in order to fund important maintenance and improvement projects within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Rodolfo Pichardo, 71, of Hialeah, Florida was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for masterminding a $38 million health care fraud and wire fraud scheme. His wife Marta Pichardo, 66, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for her role in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Anthony Hanel, age 30, and Courtney Clark, age 33, formerly of Washington state, were sentenced today in federal court. Hanel was convicted of Illegal Possession of Access Device-Making Equipment and of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Clark was...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: Two drug traffickers connected with a Mexican cartel that supplied a south Georgia methamphetamine conspiracy have been sentenced to federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service today announced a $439,725 grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program to help protect 50.09 acres of Cold Harbor Battlefield in Hanover County, Virginia, a significant Civil War battlefield in Virginia threatened with damage or destruction by suburban...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Dr. Raymond Michael Moore, 61, of Wise, Va., who had a medical practice in Norton, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court in Abingdon, to 14 federal charges, including illegally prescribing more than 25,000 oxycodone pills, more than 17,000 hydrocodone pills, and more than 10,000 benzodiazepine pills; obtaining drugs by fraud; health care fraud; making a false statement to law enforcement; and failing to maintain required records.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore begins shuttle bus transportation service on Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019, and will run until mid-April 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-An Arlee man with a felony record was sentenced today to five years in prison and three years of supervised release after he admitted to illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
