News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man has been sentenced on federal drug and gun charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Michael Hill, 50, was sentenced to eight years in federal prison on three counts of distribution of marijuana and one count of possession of a firearm by...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center today announced there is a 70% chance of above-normal tropical cyclone activity during the central Pacific hurricane season this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Indictment comes after defendant Michael Tracy McFadden’s state conviction for child molestation was overturned by the State Court of Appeals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Three parents charged in the college admissions case pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholas Wayne Deminds, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing fentanyl, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Alejandro Ramirez-Suarez was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and related charges announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Lucy H. Koh, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Richard J. Clark (age 71) was sentenced on May 21, 2019 in federal court in Milwaukee to 14 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $213,000 in restitution to the IRS.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following statement after swearing in the members of the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission, an independent government commission created through bipartisan legislation that he authored...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WAYNE MARGARUM, SR., 72, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for failing to file tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced Cornelius Darrell Curtis, on May 20, 2019, to 60 months for the violation of 18 United States Code Section 924(c), Using, Carrying, or Possessing a Firearm During or in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A nurse practitioner was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3,749,121.29 for unlawfully dispensing prescription opioids and Medicare and Medicaid fraud, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging a Wooster man with firearms violations, including having two illegal components used to turn firearms into fully automatic machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Judge Jeffrey U. Beaverstock sentenced Cornelius Darrell Curtis, on May 20, 2019, to 60 months for the violation of 18 United States Code Section 924(c), Using, Carrying, or Possessing a Firearm During or in Relation to a Drug Trafficking Crime.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at a full Committee hearing entitled, “LIFT America: Modernizing Our Infrastructure for the Future:"
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ara Dolarian, 58, was arrested on Wednesday, May 15, in Fresno on a criminal complaint charging him with illegally brokering the sale of military-grade arms and munitions, money laundering, and conspiracy, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By State Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) announced that the committee approved nine important measures, six bills and three resolutions, with overwhelming bipartisan support at today’s full committee markup.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging a Wooster man with firearms violations, including having two illegal components used to turn firearms into fully automatic machine guns.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: A Cleveland man already in federal custody for drug trafficking was charged with attempting to possess more than 300 grams of fentanyl, as well escape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: A Massillon man was indicted on one count of enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of West Virginia, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Attempted Coercion and Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Illegal Sexual Activity and Travel with Intent to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
