News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Billings, MT - The U.S. Marshals in Montana arrested July 3 one of the ATF’s 15 most wanted fugitives wanted by the ATF Kansas City Field Division on an outstanding warrant out of the Northern District of Iowa for felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Patty Janelle Reddick on June 21, 2019 to serve a term of imprisonment of 30 months followed by 5 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine in violation of 21 USC § 846. The defendant previously entered a guilty plea with the Court on Sept. 20, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admits Advertising Pills Online as Oxycodone While Manufacturing and Distributing Thousands of Pills Containing Fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Berlin, MD - The National Park Service has completed its July 2019 population census of the wild horses on Assateague Island. The total population of the Maryland herd is currently at 77 horses, including 22 stallions and 55 mares. All horses were located and there were no births or deaths documented during the census.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: MIDLAND, Texas - Ryan David Green, 27, of Midland, faces up to life in federal prison time after pleading guilty this week to firearm and drug trafficking charges in connection with the murder of two Midland residents in July 2015, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash, Midland Police Chief Seth Herman and El Paso Division DEA Special Agent in Charge Kyle Williamson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - The park hosted 781,853 visits in June 2019. This is a 3.6 percent decrease from last June (810,884 visits). It is also a decrease from June 2016 (838,316 visits) which remains the busiest month on record in Yellowstone.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, the House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA) with an amendment offered by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, to reform our criminal justice system, and an amendment offered by Committee Member Carolyn Maloney to provide paid family leave for federal employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: ALBANY - A Florida man who robbed the Peoples South Bank in Albany, Georgia in 2016 was sentenced to 78 months in prison for his crime, the upper range calculated under the federal sentencing guidelines, announced U.S. Attorney Charles “Charlie" Peeler. Avery Williams, 38, of Quincy, Florida, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Justin T. Yarbrough, 37, a former background investigator who did work under contract for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), was sentenced today to five months in prison on one false statements charge in connection with his falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Clients Received Nearly $700,000 in Fraudulent Refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man was sentenced today to seven years in prison for his possession of a firearm as a convicted felon and while under a term of federal supervised release during a traffic stop in Henrico County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Ryan Kleinschmidt, 25, Merrill, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 54 months in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kleinschmidt pleaded guilty to these charges on April 11, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A Memphis area man has pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks to generate sales of high-dollar compounded prescription drugs. Bradley Fly, 34, of Germantown, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on Wednesday before Chief United States District Judge Brian S. Miller. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An Illinois man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with a bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced his resignation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: DENVER - Dewayne Scott, age 21, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pled guilty this week to pharmacy burglary before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. Scott appeared at the change of plea hearing on bond but was remanded at its conclusion. He is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Moore on Sept. 26, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Joshua Padilla, 33, of Eatontown, New Jersey was charged by Indictment with producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography. The defendant was previously charged with multiple related felonies in February 2019 by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: DEATH VALLEY, CA - Thanks to a partnership with the National Park Foundation, National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and BMW of North American, six electric vehicle (EV) charging stations have been installed at The Oasis at Death Valley to serve visitors to Death Valley National Park.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan delegation of Members from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Ranking Member Congressman McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY), met with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen during her stopover in New York City this evening. The meeting also included Taiwan Foreign...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that former U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah, Sr., 62, of Philadelphia, PA was resentenced to 10 years of incarceration by United States District Judge Harvey Bartle, III.
