News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Robbie Lee Holmes, age 31, of Bunch, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846, punishable by not less than 10 years and not more than life imprisonment, a fine up to $10,000,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal grand jury today indicted two men in connection with a February 2019 armed robbery of an M&T Bank branch in which a bank employee was shot.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Cheyenne, Wyo. - Come help us celebrate Smokey Bear’s 75th birthday at the Wyoming State Museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A grand jury today returned indictments against two Kansas postal employees charged in separate cases with stealing mail, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: For Possession Of A Firearm In Furtherance Of A Drug Trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing entitled “Beyond the Citizenship Question: Repairing the Damage and Preparing to Count ‘We the People’ in 2020."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Christopher Brian Birdsong, 39, of Byram, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III to being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Michelle A. Sutphin, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Derryck Decuir, 26, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced yesterday to 34 years in prison for the 2015 murder of Ballou High School student Malek Mercer, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Henrico man yesterday on charges of making a false statement when acquiring a firearm and was also convicted of possession with the intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on July 22, 2019, Liza Robles, age 35, of Freeland, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 36 months’ imprisonment and three years of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years and six months in federal prison for his role in a series of violent armored car robberies in Las Vegas and Henderson, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: CINCINNATI - Lynn Brenneman, 60, of Bowling Green, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that WILLIAM HARRISON FARRIS, age 39, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute ketamine which resulted in the death of a Slidell, Louisiana teenager. The eighteen year old’s dead body was found floating in a Texas bayou.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Pawtucket man who collected approximately $186,000 on Social Security disability insurance benefits while at the same time earning nearly $400,000 in wages as a house painter pleaded guilty today in federal court to fraud and theft charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Henrico man yesterday on charges of making a false statement when acquiring a firearm and was also convicted of possession with the intent to distribute marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William McSwain announced today that Eagleville Hospital, which provides substance use disorder treatment in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay $2.85 million to the federal government to resolve allegations that the hospital violated the False Claims Act...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing "Oversight of the Unaccompanied Children Program: Ensuring the Safety of Children in HHS Care".
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: YUMA, Ariz. - On Thursday, July 18, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Yuma special agents arrested Alejandro Escobar-Rivera, 51, and seized 221.22 lbs. of methamphetamine and 5.0 lbs. of cocaine with a combined approximate street value of nearly $4.1 million, as well as multiple cell phones, in a targeted enforcement action led by HSI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JEFFREY CLINES, age 53, of New Orleans, was sentenced on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine in the Eastern District of Louisiana. United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced CLINES to a term of imprisonment of 42 months, followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ronny Mota, age 29, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute more than 100 grams of heroin.
