News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Buena Park man was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison for committing a series of armed robberies of gasoline stations and convenience stores in Los Angeles and Orange counties where he used a replica firearm to threaten and intimidate store clerks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the conviction of MARTAVIS SHAWN DEMAR JAMES, 38, for the robbery and attempted robbery of 10 Twin Cities businesses. Following a four-day trial before U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, the jury found JAMES guilty on all counts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - John Coffin, aka “Body," age 49, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced on Tuesday to 120 months in prison for illegally possessing a handgun and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: More than 200 law enforcement officers died by suicide in 2019. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline may be reached at 1-800-273-8255 and provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress. We are HERE for law enforcement, HELP is a phone call away, and above all there is always HOPE.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: WARNER SPRINGS, Calif. - Yesterday the DEA’s Narcotic Task Force executed a state search warrant at 30570 Chihuahua Valley Road, Warner Springs, Calif. Agents uncovered a sophisticated butane hash oil extraction lab inside three trailers on the property. In addition to extracting hash oil, the lab operators were also refining the hash oil and packaging it into vape cartridges for consumption.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OMAR VILLARREAL, 27, of La Puente, California, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 84 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fentanyl trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: A Toledo pastor was sentenced to life in prison for sex trafficking of a minor, while another Toledo pastor was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for similar crimes, U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Eric B. Smith said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Texarkana, Texas, physician has agreed to pay $118,000 to settle allegations of improper billing practices for his Medicare patients at his three clinics, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Woodbridge woman was sentenced today to five years in prison for buying and selling wholesale quantities of high-grade methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A North Carolina man was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in prison for conspiring to commit mail and bank fraud and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: A Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based doctor was sentenced to 37 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release today for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare and other health care insurers.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On May 15, 2019, Stephen Allen Lamont, 61, and Elvia Lorena Lamont, 51, were sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Cindy K. Jorgenson for their involvement in a Medicare fraud scheme. Lamont previously pled guilty to Health Care Fraud and his wife, Elvia Lamont, previously pled guilty to Misprision of a Felony.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter Strasser announced that a federal grand jury on May 16 returned an indictment against defendant DWAYNE WINANS, JR., a/k/a “Butter," age 25, of New Orleans, for bank robbery, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former resident of Port Vue, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service is celebrating the grand reopening of the Paradise Inn and Annex, a National Historic Landmark located in Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park. The Inn, which originally opened in 1917, was expanded in 1920 to include an additional 80+ rooms. Since then, the Inn has welcomed...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: On Tuesday evening, May 14, park law enforcement rangers arrested two individuals suspected of breaking into vehicles and stealing property within park boundaries. Acting on an investigative lead, park rangers stopped a vehicle of matching make and license plates at the Boy Scout Trail parking lot. A...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.
By State Newswire | May 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement regarding reports of escalated violence in Northwestern Syria:
