News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the Middle District of Pennsylvania collected $20.2 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $4 million was collected in criminal actions and $16 million was collected in civil actions. The $20.2 million collected in FY 2018 represents approximately double the appropriated budget for the office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Store warned four times about selling uninspected meat food products.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three men were arrested this morning on federal drug distribution charges alleging they conspired with a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy and others to steal more than 1,200 pounds of marijuana and $645,000 in cash and money orders during an armed robbery of a downtown Los Angeles warehouse that was staged to look like law enforcement was executing a search warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Paul “Paco" Garcia, 39, of Barnhart, was charged in a federal indictment with one felony count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment against Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Ovidio Guzman Lopez, charging them with a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana for importation into the United States was unsealed last week. The Guzman Lopez brothers, believed to currently reside in Mexico, are the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera, aka “El Chapo," who was convicted by a jury in the Eastern District of New York for his role as the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Terrance Maurice Goss (32, Tampa) with four counts of bank robbery, two counts of attempted bank robbery, and one count of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Goss faces a maximum penalty of...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a recruitment event Friday, March 1, to recruit part-time TSA officers to work at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO). The goal is to have many of the new employees onboard ahead of the busy summer travel season.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment yesterday charging DANIEL JIMENEZ DE LA CRUZ, 33, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in Waterbury, with fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - David Fagan, 32, of Manchester, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Scott Bradley Meyrowitz, 61, of Lake Worth, was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday for wire fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: During this meeting, maps of the routes inventoried will be available for review. The public is encouraged to review these routes and make comments. BLM representatives will be available to answer any questions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling announced today that the District of Massachusetts collected more than $5.213 billion in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, more than $4.9 billion was collected by the District alone - $25,028,095 in criminal actions, and $4,906,284,211 in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Alleging Disability-Based Discrimination in Housing in Galveston, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Defendant Directed Women in the Philippines to Sexually Abuse Children and Send Him Photographs of the Abuse in Exchange for Cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Three Florida residents have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, Hobbs Act robbery, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Government Operations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Lanny Davis, counsel for Michael Cohen, seeking additional information about Cohen’s questionable strategic consulting, lobbying, and foreign agent work.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Little Rock man was sentenced for his role in a scheme that defrauded a government program intended to feed Arkansas children in low income areas. Nigel Hall, 49, of Little Rock, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge J. Leon Holmes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: Also Possessed Methamphetamine That He Planned to Distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announces that KENNETH KNIGHT, age 69, was sentenced today pursuant to his plea of guilty to a one count bill of information charging him with conspiring with others to dispense quantities of Schedule II and Schedule III drug controlled substances outside the scope of professional practice and not for legitimate medical purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chester man was sentenced today to 27 years for robbing four convenience stores and the attempted robbery of another convenience store.
