News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Kenneth Garrett, 62, has been sentenced to 200 months imprisonment on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 23-year-old Mexican National has been charged with unlawful transportation of aliens resulting in death following the fatal alien smuggling attempt in which six people were left for dead, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - Colin Reese Diggie, 36, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 25 years in prison, for second degree murder, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Chief U.S. District Court Judge David C. Nye also sentenced Diggie to pay $7,725 in restitution and ordered him to serve five years of supervised release after he is released from prison. Diggie pleaded guilty on Jan. 16, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas - in partnership with the Lubbock Police Department and a host of other federal, state, and local law enforcement partners - today launched Project Safe Neighborhoods Lubbock, its third PSN initiative in North Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ANTHONY WHITTLEY, 28, of Parsons, Kansas, and JASMINE BOONE, a/k/a Jasmine Thomas, 28, of Wister, Oklahoma, have pleaded guilty to cattle rustling, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Kauai County, Hawaii, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Kenneth Garrett, 62, has been sentenced to 200 months imprisonment on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Laurie Ehrhart, age 48, of New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday by Chief United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 6 months home confinement and 2 years probation for helping her former husband defraud a disabled veteran out of $316,360.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: Music From the Time of Elizabeth I.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was arrested today and charged with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault of an Intimate Partner by Strangulation and Suffocation, Assault With a Dangerous Weapon, and Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has found an East Hollywood-based doctor and patient recruiter guilty today for their roles in a $33 million Medicare fraud scheme in which Medicare was billed for clinic, home health, hospice services and durable medical equipment that patients did not need or did not receive.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Mexican National was charged Monday with unlawfully transporting aliens which resulted in death following the fatal alien smuggling attempt that left six people dead and nine others injured in Southeast Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the appointment of Kristin Harrington as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division and Scott Proctor as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division for the Northern District of Oklahoma. They are scheduled to be sworn in Friday, June 7, at 10:00 a.m., at the United States District Courthouse by Chief United States District Judge John E. Dowdell.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former California attorney has pleaded guilty to one felony count of wire fraud for falsely representing to his clients that he obtained favorable legal resolutions for them, and then perpetuating the scheme by delivering clients fraudulent documents, some with the forged signatures of judges, and by making disguised telephone calls to them.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1994, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019. This package builds on Republican reforms that passed the House twice in the 115th Congress.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has reopened the comment period on the draft environmental assessment (EA) for importing plants in approved growing media into the United States. The EA considers the potential environmental effects of having a standardized ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two men have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that led to the kidnapping and torture of an Independence, Mo., man.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Agreement with McKinley County, New Mexico, to Ensure Accessible Voting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced that Mark Spicer, a/k/a Chief, age 24, of Iowa, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of interstate transportation of an individual under the age of eighteen for purposes of prostitution. Spicer faces a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years imprisonment up to life. There is no parole in the federal system. A sentencing hearing will be held at a later date.
