News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Conspired to Steal Prescription Drugs from Federal Military Hospitals and Possessed with Intent to Distribute More Than 100 Kilograms of Marijuana.
By State Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement regarding the African Union's suspension of Sudan amid reports that the ruling military in the country continue to perpetrate extreme violence against peaceful protestors:
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: A former project manager for Portland, Oregon-based shipbuilder Vigor Marine LLC, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Seattle for ten counts of wire fraud related to his scheme to defraud his employer out of approximately $1.5 million, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. SHELTON LAYNE SMITH, 50, of Portsmouth Virginia, is expected to be arraigned on the indictment in U.S. District Court in Seattle in the next two weeks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - PHILIP JAMES HEATH, 51, of Lawton, has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of both explosives and firearms, announced Timothy J. Downing, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a federal indictment against NATHAN DANIEL BROOKS, 37, charging him with three counts of possessing contraband in prison. BROOKS made his initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Leo I. Brisbois in U.S. District Court in Duluth, Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Giovanni Deleon, 27, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl, before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Richard L. Gathercole, 41, formerly of Roundup, Montana, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 35 years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for bank robbery, brandishing a firearm and carjacking. In addition to his prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Dr. Nathan Hanflink of Mt. Dora, Florida, agreed to pay $911,136.75 to settle allegations that he received improper payments for making referrals to Greensburg, Pennsylvania drug testing lab Universal Oral Fluid Laboratories, and caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare for drug testing services, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging Douglas P. Bannister, 37, Merrill, Wisconsin, with being a felon in possession of a firearm and illegally possessing a silencer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, June 5, 2019, a federal jury convicted Willis Lydell Cogburn, 31, of Ramer, Alabama, on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., Troy Police Chief Randall Barr, and ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hosting a two-day recruitment and information session next week to hire full- and part-time Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) to work at Portland International Airport (PDX).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
Release: MOSINEE, WI - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will open a temporary TSA Pre✓® enrollment center at Central Wisconsin Airport (CWA) from Monday, June 10 through Friday, June 14, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General’s (DHS OIG) retraction of reports that inaccurately painted FEMA’s disaster response efforts in a favorable light.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Four Broward County residents were sentenced to terms between 34 years and life in prison today, after having been convicted at trial for their participation in a string of armed robberies using firearms. One defendant was also convicted of kidnapping four victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Oklahoma City - COMANCHE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL; SCOTT MICHENER, M.D.; MICHAEL RAMOS, M.D.; and ERNESTINE OLSON, A.P.R.N., have agreed to pay a combined $155,000 to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations they violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 and its regulations, announced United States Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Christino Alcazar-Ortiz, 37 and Armando Alcazar-Ortiz, 40, of Union City were both sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine and Illegal Reentry into the United States after having been previously deported. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a two-day trial, a federal jury convicted a local man of being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Elizabeth Farina-Torres (42, Orange Park) with five counts of fraudulent use of a Social Security number (SSN) and five counts of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, she faces up to five...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Dion Gregory Fisher (33, formerly of Seminole) guilty of conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl and fentanyl analogue, and money laundering. Because Fisher was convicted of distributing more than 400...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
