News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Terry Willie Trapp, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has admitted to his involvement in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Overland Park, Kan., woman has been convicted by a federal trial jury for her role in a multi-defendant drug-trafficking conspiracy with ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Steven Paul Buie, age 57, of Okemah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 4 years’ probation. Buie was also ordered to pay $204,857.37 in restitution for False Statement Or Fraud To Obtain Federal Employees’ Compensation, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1920. The charges arose from an investigation by the Department of the Army U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Defendant Falsely Testified About Photo Arrays.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A St. Albans woman pled guilty today to federal drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Amy Wilkinson, 44, of St. Albans, West Virginia, entered her guilty plea to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and one count of possession with intent to distribute heroin. Stuart commended the investigative efforts of the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department STOP Team and the Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: A Longview, Washington, man who was convicted in July 2016 of a triple homicide in Vancouver was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to an additional ten years in federal prison for two federal felonies involving illegal weapons possession, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. BRENT LUYSTER...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: David Tsui and Wellcare Consulting, LLC, a North Carolina marketing company, have agreed to pay the government $414,108.08 for allegedly accepting illegal kickback payments from OK Compounding, LLC, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former lieutenant in the Pasadena Police Department was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison for exploiting his status as a police officer to engage in the unlicensed sale of more than 100 firearms and for making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Due to recent snow accumulation and drifting, the road from Mammoth Hot Springs to Tower Junction will be closed Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 6 a.m. to noon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Douglas Bedell, age 56, of Williamstown, Vermont, has been indicted and detained on a federal firearms charge. At his arraignment in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Feb. 22, 2019, Bedell pleaded not guilty and was ordered detained in the custody of the U.S. Marshal’s Service pending disposition of the charge. Bedell was also ordered to undergo a competency evaluation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A resident of the Dominican Republic is scheduled to appear in federal court today for allegedly trying to smuggle into the United States approximately three kilograms of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - William Gum, 49, of Potosi, Missouri, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment today for his defrauding of a federal benefits program. He was also ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the Washington County Ambulance District and forfeited $95,000 to the United States of America. In November 2018, Gum pleaded guilty to four counts of public corruption, defrauding a federal program. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced today to 80 months in federal prison for acting as a courier to deliver more than three pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Joseph Jay Johnson, age 40, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for Felon In Possession Of Firearm & Ammunition, in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Brent Ernst Hansen, 42, of Indio, California, was sentenced in Juneau by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve 34 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, recognized the brave women and men in Northwest Florida’s law enforcement community today for working diligently through the weekend to keep the Pensacon event safe for all participants. This statement is issued after a cyber threat was made to the event just prior to its opening day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - Lorenzo Castelo of Memphis was sentenced to 300 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress on the second Trump-Kim Summit.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 525, the Health Care Fraud Prevention Task Force Act, which was introduced by Walden and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), by voice vote.
