News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, S.C. - United States Attorney Sherri Lydon announced today that James C. Edgerton, IV, 35, was sentenced in federal court in Columbia after pleading guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin and methamphetamine. Senior United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Defendants face federal and state gun and drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - ELIJAH CHARLES SORINA (“SORINA"), age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on Nov. 14, 2019 to Theft of Government Funds, announced United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59-year-old Beaumont mental health care counselor has pleaded guilty to health care fraud in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Nov. 14, 2019, a federal grand jury issued an indictment against Mason O. Beudry (age: 23) and Juan M. Cardenas (age: 23) both of Appleton, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Scott Balotin (49, Saint Johns), Greg Carter (62, Fleming Island), Thomas Jones (50, Jacksonville), John Clark Walton (49, Jacksonville), David Stevens (40, Callahan), Sam Todd (40, Jacksonville...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach woman was cited on state weapons charges by police at Norfolk International Airport yesterday, Nov. 14, after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer found a.25 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets, including one in the chamber, in the traveler’s carry-on bag.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Cañon City, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management-Royal Gorge Field Office recently completed improvements to The Bank campground north of Canon City. The Bank is part of the Shelf Road Recreation Area, one of Colorado’s most notable sport climbing locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - This week, Roland Allen Denny, of Baby Rocks, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 15 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release. Denny had previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham of the District of Connecticut, Special Agent in Charge Phillip Coyne of the Boston Regional Office of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, Special Agent in Charge Brian C. Turner of the FBI’s New Haven Division, and Special...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., [Friday Nov. 15, 2019] - USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is taking immediate action to prevent the introduction of tomato brown rugose fruit virus into the United States and protect U.S. tomato and pepper production worth more than $2.3 billion annually.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: All cases brought under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 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 Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: NORMAN, Okla.-The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro event in Odessa, Texas, on Dec. 6-7, at the Ector County Coliseum. The two-day event, featuring 70 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Dec.7. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Charges Include Drug Conspiracy, Money Laundering, And Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced in federal court for stealing $368,329.61 from his employer, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Discharged a Gun in a Residential Neighborhood and Tried to Hide From the Police in a Convenience Store Walk-In Freezer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Several hospitals owned and operated by Sutter Health (“Sutter"), a California-based healthcare services provider, and Sacramento Cardiovascular Surgeons Medical Group, Inc. (“Sac Cardio"), a practice group of three cardiovascular surgeons, have agreed to pay the United States a total of $46,123,516.36 to resolve allegations related to reimbursement claims they submitted to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: Former Elementary School Teacher’s Assistant Sentenced to 150 Months for Child-Exploitation Crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2019
News Release: MOAB, UT- Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments are open all year, but the parks’ visitor center operations change with the arrival of winter.
