News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of a Chicago medical clinic was sentenced today to more than six years in federal prison for selling opioid prescriptions to patients whom he knew lacked a legitimate medical need for the drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Tuesday, May 28, 2019, a federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment charging three individuals with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, 10 substantive counts of wire fraud, intentional misapplication of property by an agent of an organization receiving federal funds, aggravated...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - Juan Carlos Ramirez-Arcos (34, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm or ammunition as an illegal alien. He faces a maximum term of 10 years in federal prison. He is also required to forfeit the firearm and ammunition that were used in committing the offense. The Ramirez-Arcos sentencing hearing is set for Aug. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that RYAN S. CORTEZ, age 47, of Des Allemands, Louisiana, was sentenced today for Misappropriation of Postal Funds.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Beginning Tuesday, June 4, the National Park Service road crew will begin a three-week pavement preservation project to seal cracks in the older asphalt surfaces around the park. Drivers will see flaggers at temporary traffic control areas where work is taking place. Visitors and residents should expect traffic delays of up to 10 minutes in the active work zones. Road work operations should be completed within an hour at any given location.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Two Cleveland men were indicted for federal firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - A Little Rock man pleaded guilty today to making false statements on loan applications, costing banks and lenders over $3.3 million. Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two former clean room pharmacists at New England Compounding Center (NECC) were sentenced this week in federal court in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak.
By Commerce Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, commended Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton on her legislation to create the nation’s 51st State, comprised of the eight hometown wards of the District of Columbia, and announced that the Committee will be holding a hearing on her bill, H.R. 51, on July 24, 2019...
By Homeland Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national wanted for his role in the 1980s massacre of indigenous Guatemalans was charged with illegal re-entry into the United States in federal court in Boston on May 29. He was recently apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Tyshon Powell, 24years old, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Grove City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 17 years and 6 months in prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, on his conviction of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Rome, NY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that upwards of 90,000 visitors to Fort Stanwix National Monument in 2018 spent more than $5 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 66 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative estimated benefit to the local economy of $6.1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Erick Rahumid Hobbs, a/k/a Eric Muhammad, age 39, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 198 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition. Hobbs was previously convicted of a felony and was therefore prohibited from possessing firearms or ammunition. A federal jury convicted Hobbs on March 6, 2019, after a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A Cedar County man who shot his neighbor’s house numerous times pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Heather McDorman, 30, of Barnhart, pled guilty to seven counts of Production and Attempted Production of Child Pornography/Sexual Exploitation of a Child. McDorman appeared before United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel and set sentencing for Aug. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cameron Dixon, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 20 months incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A federal grand jury has indicted an East Brookfield man in connection with unlawfully operating an aircraft, making false statements to federal investigators, and attempting to tamper with a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Honeywell has sentenced Damon Bellamy (40, Riverview) and Quijuania Williams (40, Riverview) to seven years and eight months in federal prison and five years and three months in federal prison, respectively, for theft of government funds. The court will schedule a restitution hearing to determine the amount of restitution they owe to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | May 30, 2019
News Release: A beach fire ban is effective immediately at Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore).
