News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Pompano Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Pawankumar Jain, 66, a former physician, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 108 months in prison and three years of supervised release for unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, DEA El Paso Division Special Agent in Charge Kyle W. Williamson and FBI Albuquerque Division Special Agent in Charge James C. Langenberg.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Abia: Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released new data revealing alarmingly high rates of contamination in certain duodenoscopes, even after the device is cleaned. These data raise serious questions about your company’s ability to ensure the health and safety of patients...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Sumner County man pleaded guilty today to trying to get out of a traffic ticket by pretending to be an FBI agent, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Nitro, West Virginia, man pled guilty to a federal firearm charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. On May 8, 2019, Cole Dylan Cooper, 30, pled guilty to possession of a firearm by a felon before United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin. Stuart commended the investigation conducted by the South Charleston Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on oversight of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury has returned a forty-seven count superseding indictment, unsealed today, against suspended Tallahassee City Commissioner Scott Charles Maddox, 51, Tallahassee political consultant Janice Paige Carter-Smith, 54, and John Thomas Burnette, 42, all of Tallahassee, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Dr. Joel Smithers Illegally Prescribed Schedule II Narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced to federal prison Thursday as the result of a bank fraud scheme that cost his former employer, Firstar Bank of Tulsa, nearly $700,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Guyland W. Thompson, 65, of Milton, pleaded guilty today to twenty counts of wire fraud and three counts of tax evasion stemming from his embezzlement of funds from United Way of Santa Rosa County (“UWSRC"). Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Pregnant Bystander was Shot in the Head but Survived.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Florida resident has been sentenced in federal court to two years and 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and bank fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Annette Elizabeth Jones, age 45, of Port Deposit, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud in connection with a scheme to embezzle funds from the labor union where she worked. Jones entered her guilty plea on May 7, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A Stow man was indicted in federal court for having methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: For Possession of a Firearm Prior to Thwarted Home Invasion Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Honduran man was sentenced today to 33 years in prison for leading a drug trafficking organization that smuggled at least thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States over the last decade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today James A. Chapman, a/k/a Fatz Guy, a/k/a Perverted Doe, 37, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to production and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A woman who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty May 8, 2019, in federal court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault With Intent to Commit Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX Ariz. - On May 7, 2019, Duraid Hussein, 25, of Glendale, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 54 months in prison. Hussein is a citizen of Iraq who entered the United States as a refugee. On December 6, 2018, Hussein was convicted by a federal jury of being a felon in possession of a firearm. In July 2017, Hussein sold a stolen firearm to another individual. As a convicted felon, Hussein is not allowed to possess firearms or ammunition.
