News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: St. Louis -Jonathen Aguilar, 31, of St. Charles, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute between 1.2 and 4 kilograms fentanyl. Aguilar appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Rodney L. White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for Oct. 2, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of a street gang that operates in Santa Fe Springs and Whittier pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges, including ones stemming from the April 2016 murder of a rival gangster outside a San Gabriel Valley restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Thomas Alonzo Bolin, a/k/a Peter Vincent, 22, of Greece, NY, who was convicted of making a false statement to the FBI, was sentenced to serve time served (three months) and three years supervised release by U.S. District Judge David...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Deviassi Adams, 41, of Jackson, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Henry T. Wingate to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven J. Jensen with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: NEW YORK - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Ernesto Lopez, a New York-licensed medical doctor who wrote thousands of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and fentanyl over an approximately three-year period, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two defendants were sentenced to prison in federal court in Bluefield. Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber imposed the sentences.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement, in response to the decision by the Trump Administration to follow the Supreme Court’s ruling last week, to abandon its efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, and to begin printing the Census forms without the citizenship question as soon as possible...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM workers at the Savannah River Site recently cleared a path to move bundled spent nuclear fuel assemblies vertically instead of horizontally, a change to increase the efficiency of this process by 25 percent.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM workers have torn down the west end of Building 3017 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory after more than a decade of challenges, evaluations, and repairs to the structure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: DENVER - In December of 2018, the Longmont Department of Public Safety Special Enforcement Unit began looking into the drug distribution activities of Joshua Ward, who resided in the city of Longmont. Utilizing various law enforcement investigative techniques, Longmont SEU identified numerous subjects in the northern Colorado region who were assisting Joshua Ward in the distribution of large quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl and prescriptions drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Judge David J. Hale has sentenced Kenneth R. Betts to 16 years’ imprisonment, followed by 20 years of Supervised Release, after he pleaded guilty in December of 2018 to enticement, attempted enticement, possession of child pornography, transfer of obscene materials...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), Chair of the Aviation Subcommittee Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) sent a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: A federal jury convicted two Cleveland men of brandishing firearms while robbing MetroPCS stores last year and shooting at an off-duty Cleveland police officer.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center presents its fourth annual temporary exhibit that features paintings by Native American students from Owyhee Combined School, located in the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, Owyhee, Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Major investigations and arrest operations have taken place in Lafourche, Terrebonne and St. John Parishes over the past year, resulting in the indictments and arrests of over two dozen defendants facing multiple federal and state drug and gun charges, announced the United States Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ERNESTO LOPEZ, a New York-licensed medical doctor who wrote thousands of medically unnecessary prescriptions for oxycodone and fentanyl over an approximately three-year period, was sentenced today in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: DENVER, Colorado - U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn announced today that his office has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado against the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Company and its owner and operator, American Heritage Railways...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Roaring Springs, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation with conditions of 180 days of home detention, and restitution due and owing to the United States Railroad Retirement Board in the amount of $50,985.21, on his conviction of theft of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted an Evanston man on robbery and firearm charges in connection with three violent gas station heists in the north suburbs.
