News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant sentenced to 96 months for Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 16, 2019, United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Mark Tullock, age 37, of New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to 70 months’ imprisonment and a two-year term of supervised release, for orchestrating the unlawful purchase of several firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON - One year ago, the Justice Department announced the formation of Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), a program designed to reduce the supply of deadly synthetic opioids in high impact areas as well as identifying wholesale distribution networks and international and domestic suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Beckley man who was arrested after a drug investigation pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Kendall Cotten, 29, entered a guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin before United States District Judge Irene C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Gerald Pambianco, age 30, of Plains Township, was sentenced on July 16, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 161 months’ imprisonment for his role in an armed robbery of a bank in Luzerne County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Jeremy Midkiff, 38, was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his conviction for distributing fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee just approved Chair Raúl M. Grijalva’s (D-Ariz.) bills to protect the Grand Canyon from new uranium mining claims (H.R. 1373, the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act) and to remove uranium from the federal critical minerals list (H.R. 3405...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: * Tuesday, July 16, in the afternoon, the historic Mount Holmes Fire Lookout burned to the ground having been struck by lightning from a severe thunderstorm in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RASHAAN WOOLFOLK, also known as “Booka," 27, of West Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in a New Haven drug trafficking ring.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: QUEEN CITY, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Graphic Packaging International LLC - an Atlanta, Georgia-based paper product manufacturer - for exposing employees to hot steam, and failing to ensure the use of proper hazardous energy control methods. The company faces $211,400 in proposed fines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ann Marie Stankus, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 42 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management in Nevada has published the final Record of Decision and Special Recreation Permit approval for Burning Man 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on Senate passage of tax treaties with Spain, Switzerland, Japan and Luxembourg...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: In the eight months since Operation Vanilla Gorilla became the largest-ever takedown of associates of the Ghostface Gangsters criminal street gang, all 43 defendants indicted in the firearms and drug trafficking investigation have now been convicted of their crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Three Florida residents were sentenced today to between eight and ten years in federal prison for their participation in a conspiracy to commit an armed robbery of a Sawgrass Mills restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Nathaniel Teddy Brown, 37, of Jackson, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to 68 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Kirk Thielhorn with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Brown was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A New England Compounding Center (NECC) employee was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with working as an unlicensed pharmacy technician at the compounding pharmacy in Framingham.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: For Hobbs Act Robbery. HAMMOND - Markquise Harris, 19 years old, of East Chicago, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to Hobbs Act Robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Harris was sentenced to 60 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa - A former resident of Pittsburgh, PA pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
