News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Maximilien Reynolds Possessed Sawed-Off Rifle, Bomb, Silencer, and Bought Firearm Through a “Straw Purchase".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: TULSA, Okla. -A Tulsa doctor has agreed to pay the government $84,666.42 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, LLC, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-Billings resident James Nevels, III, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and five years of supervised release today for trafficking methamphetamine in the Billings community, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Manuel Sotelo-Mendoza, 26, of Ceres, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Mark Longgrear, 54, of Jackson, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison, and his son, Zachary Longgrear, 29, of Madison, was sentenced to 28 months in prison by United States District Judge Carlton W. Reeves for conspiring to reset and alter the odometers of motor vehicles, to giving...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to four years and 10 months incarceration for his convictions of violating federal firearms laws and violating the terms of his supervised release, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Blake Spears, age 38, of Westmere, Town of Guilderland, New York, was ordered detained today following his arrest last week on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: He stole over $46,000 in a little more than a month from Pleasant Valley Hospital.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Four people have admitted to drug distribution charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Stacey Becker Lawson, age 41, of Henryetta, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $177,375.40 for Theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury in Chicago has convicted the self-appointed bishop of a Pennsylvania ministry of forcing church members to work certain jobs, pocketing their earnings, and directing them to defraud various hotels.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Norfolk man today on charges of robbery and brandishing a firearm during a robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Bryant Calloway a/k/a “Bigs," 32, of Philadelphia, was convicted today by a jury of one count of murder. He was also convicted of one count of conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base; one count of using, carrying, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Mason County woman was sentenced today to three months federal incarceration to be followed by three years of supervised release, with the first six months of supervised release to be served at an in-patient substance abuse treatment center, announced United States Attorney Mike...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Eye Productions Inc. for failing to protect employees from hazards while filming a television show in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. Proposed penalties total $9,472.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Carissa Moore, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has admitted to her role in a drug distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) “astrocomb."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: On Feb. 15, 2019, a doctor who previously worked in Stuart, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury of committing repeated acts of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Johnny Ray Webb, age 51, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 55 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm and Ammunition, in violation of Title...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.VA. - An Ohio man pled guilty to a federal firearms charge, said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Brandon Ray Simpson, 29, pled guilty to being in possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The investigation was conducted by the West Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
