News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Julio Pizzini, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced on Tuesday to serve 170 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - A federal jury has convicted former real estate broker Aaron Eyerman (38, Cape Coral) in a scheme to defraud an investor of $561,000. Following a six-day trial, the jury found Eyerman guilty of three counts of wire fraud, eight counts of money laundering, and one count of false oath in relation to a bankruptcy proceeding. Eyerman’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 9, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) sent a supplemental notice to the Federal Register that provides the public with its interpretation of high-level radioactive waste (HLW), informed by more than 5,000 public comments. For decades, DOE has managed nearly all reprocessing waste...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - United States Attorney Marc Krickbaum announced on June 4, 2019, Luke Harrison Bird, II, age 31, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. Bird was sentenced to a prison term of 90 months to be followed by a term of supervised release of three years. This sentence will run consecutively to Bird’s state prison sentence for a parole violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Company admits to illegal promotion of Subsys, a powerful opioid painkiller.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Mark Edward Allen (60, St. Petersburg) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint for the possession of unregistered explosive devices. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. Allen made his initial appearance in federal court on June 4, 2019, and has been detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that on June 5, 2019, Nicole L. Enck, 35, of Lincoln, Nebraska was sentenced to 73 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture containing methamphetamine. Following the prison term, Enck will serve three years on supervised release. Chief United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard presided over this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - June 5, 2019 - Willie Collins, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court, to 15 years in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee. Collins was indicted in March 2017 and pleaded guilty in December 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Isaiah Jarrod White, 31, from Eight Mile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court on May 20, 2019, for his participation in a series of armed robberies in the Mobile area. White pled guilty to two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and one count charging felon in possession of a firearm. White pled guilty to the three charges in February of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: DURANGO - Wendell Mills, Jr., age 21, of Towaoc, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve over 10 years (121 months) in federal prison, followed by 3 years on supervised release for attempting to murder a federal police officer, announced U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Dean Phillips. Mills appeared at the sentencing hearing in custody, and was remanded at its conclusion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: A jury convicted a former Wayne County Airport official on ten counts of conspiracy, federal program bribery, federal program theft, money laundering and obstruction of justice, in connection with maintenance and repair contracts for runways and parking structures at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 40-year-old Richmond woman has been indicted for fraud and making false statements regarding her participation in a scheme to defraud her 94-year-old client who is now legally blind, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick along with Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI and Harris County Precinct One Constable Alan Rosen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 27-year-old Guatemalan national illegally in the United States, has pleaded guilty to immigration violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced bipartisan legislation to provide grants to nonprofits and faith-based organizations to help secure their facilities against potential...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Juwan Floyd, of Tallahassee, Florida, has admitted to distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that, EDWARD MOORE, JR., of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was convicted in federal court following a two-day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle. MOORE was convicted of interference with commerce by robbery, 2-counts of armed bank robbery, 3-counts of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and 4-counts of possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: Defendants Repeatedly Violated Regulations Governing Underground Storage Tanks at Gas Stations, Putting Groundwater at Risk of Contamination.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was indicted today in federal court in Boston on charges of fentanyl distribution and illegally reentering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOSE LUIS RAMIREZ-HERNANDEZ, age 38, a citizen of Mexico, was charged Monday, June 3, 2019 in a one-count bill of information with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
